Policies & Politics - Views From The Industrial Heartland

Timothy Noah is an American journalist and staff writer at The New Republic. He is also the author of the book, "The Great Divergence", about income inequality in the United States.

This episode, hosts Tim Francisco, Director of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University, and Paul Sracic, Professor of Politics and International Relations at YSU talk with American public policy commentator and political advisor, Oren Cass.  Oren challenges conventional conservative wisdom that the free market is the arbitrator of economic, political, and social values, arguing instead that we should pay closer attention to the labor market.  

In this month's episode of Policies and Politics, Tim Francisco, Director of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University, and Paul Sracic, Professor of Politics and International Relations at YSU discuss the results of the 2022 Ohio GOP Senate Primary. Is J.D. Vance's victory a litmus test for former President Donald Trump's power over the Republican Party?  

In this month's episode of Policies and Politics, hosts Tim Francisco and Paul Sracic talk with Chris Arnade, writer and photographer. Arnade holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Johns Hopkins, and he worked for years on Wall Street until the financial crash of 2008 and Occupy Wall Street made him question what he was doing there. He left Wall Street and began a journey chronicling the lives of America’s “back row,” people struggling with poverty, precarity, addiction, and disenfranchisement. Arnade discusses his journeys, his observations, and his predictions for the future of American politics. 

Hosts Tim Francisco, Director of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University, and Paul Sracic, Professor of Politics and International Relations at YSU talk with Marilyn Geewax, former Senior Business Editor for NPR about the Industrial Heartland.