Heather Ann Thompson

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670 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 26 Jun

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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci · Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson · 28 Apr 2026 podcast

All these budgets are literally stripped.

And so, for example, teenage kids that could get

Some were jobs through a program called CETA.

Those jobs just disappear.

And these were jobs that allowed people to intern in my city of Detroit for like Ford Motor Company or, you know, in the city of New York, you could work for all kinds of really interesting companies.

But then they'd hire you.

So we're talking literally of shuddering public libraries everywhere.

getting rid of public programs that people needed, and then looking at those people and saying, what's your problem?

Why are you selling drugs?

Or why are you so poor?

Or why can't you get out of public housing?

And the saddest part of this is that that took work.

It took effort.

And there's only one real beneficiary in this story.

And that's the people who always push back at the New Deal on the public sector.

And those were the wealthiest Americas.

They didn't want to have to pay into it, frankly.

And they say it.

They say it in my book.

Well, part of it is I'm a historian.

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