Leid Stories - 01/08/14

Obamacare’s Huge Gap; Bankers Pay to Play; Poor in the Land of Plenty

Leid Stories’ commentaries take aim at two major issues that affect millions of people and involve billions of dollars -- Obamacare’s 5 million “gap” people who won’t get insurance, and the administration’s refusal to shut down gangster banks and financial institutions.

And on the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration of a “war on poverty,” guest Sasha Abramsky offers a five-decades-long view of its successes and failures, and of battles yet to be fought. He is the author of The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives.