Free the Economy podcast: Welfare costs and benefits with Scott Winship

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In this week’s episode we cover the Los Angeles wildfires, reforms to high-skilled immigration, new leadership at the Department of Energy, legal peril for ESG investing, and a new agenda for the 119th Congress. Our interview this week is with Scott Winship, director of the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute. We talk about blue-collar wages, social welfare spending, tax credits, and whether the U.S. should be more like Denmark and Sweden.
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- Free the Economy Episode 98: Debt and Taxes with Jack Salmon
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Join us next week when our guest will be Rachel Barkley, director of the Able Americans program at the National Center for Public Policy Research.