Selects: Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

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Short Stuff: Simple Spelling Movement

Pretty much everyone agrees that English is a chaotic language. There are nutso rules of grammar and spelling other languages don’t have. More than once, movements have emerged to simplify English and each time they were beaten back with a vengeance. See omnystudio.com/listener f ...  Show more

The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine

Lots of nations gauge the health of their country by how the middle class is doing. There’s just one issue with that – no one can say exactly what defines the middle class. But even when you take a guess, it seems like the health isn’t so good these days.See omnystudio.com/listen ...  Show more

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