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The State We're In: Author Alasdair Roberts, Racial Bias

Season 9 Episode 44 | 26m 46s

UMass Amherst Director of Public Policy Alasdair Roberts on his book, "Can Government Do Anything Right?". The Healing Racism Institute of Pioneer Valley's Waleska Lugo-DeJesús discusses the ways to overcome systemic racism in the Pioneer Valley. UMass School of Public Policy & Sociology Prof. Joya Misra discusses the "motherhood penalty," a wage gap between women with kids and women without kids.

Aired: 02/28/19
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