Episode 42: Bringing the Hurt to Washington - Part I
Guest: Erik Hurt (D) - Candidate for Indiana’s 8th Congressional District
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Indiana uncontested Statehouse seats: https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2024
Indiana uncontested State Senate seats: https://ballotpedia.org/Indiana_State_Senate_elections,_2024
Indiana 50th in voter turnout: https://fox59.com/news/politics/in-focus-indiana-ranks-50th-in-voter-turnout/
Moneyball: https://bookshop.org/p/books/moneyball-the-art-of-winning-an-unfair-game-michael-lewis/8746488
Government should not be run like a business: https://hbr.org/2017/03/the-u-s-cannot-be-run-like-a-business
The American Dream is dead: https://www.newsweek.com/american-dream-dead-opinion-1917153
Meritocracy is a myth: https://www.vox.com/videos/2021/4/2/22349990/education-inequality-meritocracy-myth
Collectivism a necessary virtue: https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/09/1047042
The peril of rugged individualism: https://www.thehastingscenter.org/rugged-american-individualism-is-a-myth-and-its-killing-us/
The radicalism of public libraries: https://depauliaonline.com/57226/opinions/opinion-are-libraries-radical/
The stigma of public transportation: https://ui.charlotte.edu/story/overcoming-stigma-riding-bus/
The privatization of everything: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/04/five-step-process-privatize-everything
Schools as community hubs: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/schools-as-community-hubs-integrating-support-services-to-drive-educational-outcomes/
Vouchers hurt rural schools: https://www.ncpecoalition.org/ruralvouchers
Stocks a poor measure of the full economy: https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2023/03/17/myth-busting-the-economy-drives-the-stock-market/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/12/occupy-wall-street-10-years-on
Fight for $15 not enough: https://thehill.com/lobbying/4170972-15-an-hour-isnt-enough-u-s-workers-need-to-earn-a-living-wage/
USA medical wait times are long NOW: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/truth-wait-times-universal-coverage-systems/
Medicare for All is actually cheaper: https://www.citizen.org/news/fact-check-medicare-for-all-would-save-the-u-s-trillions-public-option-would-leave-millions-uninsured-not-garner-savings/
COVID as an argument FOR universal health care: https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/yale-study-more-than-335000-lives-could-have-been-saved-during-pandemic-if-us-had-universal-health-care/
History of attempts at universal health care in US: https://pnhp.org/a-brief-history-universal-health-care-efforts-in-the-us/
Boomers pulled up the ladder on future generations: https://fortune.com/2023/10/28/great-wealth-transfer-baby-boomers-bank-of-america-millennials-government-policy/
CEO pay growth since Reagan: https://www.progressivecaucuscenter.org/the-ceo-pay-problem-and-what-we-can-do-about-it
Education a matter of national defense: https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Defense-Education-Act
Interstate highway system ALSO a defense project: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/national-interstate-and-defense-highways-act
Student loan scandal: https://revealnews.org/article/who-got-rich-off-the-student-debt-crisis/
Cost to attend IU: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/indiana-university-bloomington-1809/paying
The government can’t run out of money: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/16/18251646/modern-monetary-theory-new-moment-explained