Looking Back to Look Forward: Social Safety Nets
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Series: Looking Back to Look Forward: Election 2008
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This is part of a special series designed to help the public examine important topics that the top presidential candidates are talking about, and compare what was said and done by past presidents and administrations. In this installment, we look at social safety nets. We use contemporary campaign tape from the Republican and Democratic nominees, as well as archival presidential tape going back decades. We also invite a diverse group of voters into our studios to listen to the tape we gathered, then fold their reactions and reflections into the story.
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This is part of a special series designed to help the public examine important topics that the top presidential candidates are talking about, and compare what was said and done by past presidents and administrations. In this installment, we look at social safety nets. We use contemporary campaign tape from the Republican and Democratic nominees, as well as archival presidential tape going back decades. We also invite a diverse group of voters into our studios to listen to the tape we gathered, then fold their reactions and reflections into the story.
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KPLU's Looking Back to Look Forward: The Politics of a Social Safety Net
Social Safety Nets: The stock market has plummeted. Banks have failed. The future looks bleak. I'm not talking about the current state of affairs, but about what was going on in this country in the 1930's. The Great Depression prompted the federal government to step in in ways it never had before. As we continue our election series "Looking Back to Look Forward," KPLU's Paula Wissel reviews how the government's role in providing our biggest social safety net is still an issue in presidential campaigns.
REPORTER: On March 3, 1933, people were anxious to hear how their newly elected President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, would fix the country. Even this newsreel promises that film of the ceremony is being rushed to New York by the fastest plane in the country.
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Aired October 21, 2008 on KPLU, in Western Washington State
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