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Hi there, we're Michael Bluhm ＆ Graham Vyse from The Signal, a new current-affairs publication based in the U.S. and Canada. We've been thinking a lot about what the American Rescue Plan Act says about the state of the United States’ two parties and the new era the country's entering into. AMA.
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Hi there, we're Michael Bluhm ＆ Graham Vyse from The Signal, a new current-affairs publication based in the U.S. and Canada. We've been thinking a lot about what the American Rescue Plan Act says about the state of the United States’ two parties and the new era the country's entering into. AMA.

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 09:01 AM PDT

Recently, we've talked with Dean Baker,the co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who made the case that the Act represents the largest expansion of the social safety net since the Great Society reforms of the 1960s: Norm Ornstein, an emeritus scholar at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, on why the Republicans could't do anything about the act and got stuck complaining about Dr. Seuss being canceled, and Randall Wray, a professor of economics at Bard College and one of the founders of modern monetary theory, about why he believes this expansive new government spending will help the country in a sustainable way, rather than driving up prices and public debt.

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www.thesgnl.com/2021/03/deficit-spending-randall-wray/

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Discussion Thread: Press Secretary Jen Psaki Holds a Briefing - 03/24/2021 | Live 12:30 PM ET

Posted: 24 Mar 2021 09:18 AM PDT

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki briefs reporters and responds to questions.

Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers Cecilia Rouse, and Member of the Council of Economic Advisers Heather Boushey will join, today