Power and Profits

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 5, 2021

Robert Hennelly, City Hall reporter for The Chief-Leader, former WNYC reporter, and the author of Stuck Nation: Can the United States Change Course on Our History of Choosing Profits Over People? (Democracy at Work, 2021), talks about the big themes of his reporting on labor and politics and why he sees the U.S. as a "stuck nation."

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