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Heartland Politics with Robin Johnson

Book Chronicles Social and Economic Forces Leading to Working Class Decline

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Angus Deaton, co-author of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism and 2015 Nobel Prize winner, discusses his book, updates deaths of despair during the pandemic, weaknesses in our health care system, Democrats’ struggles with working class voters and much more.

Robin A. Johnson is a governmental relations, public policy and political consultant. He is an expert on government reform issues and has consulted with numerous local governments on consolidation/merger, public-private partnerships and full-cost accounting of public services. Robin has also helped candidates win elections for the U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, state legislature, judiciary and local government. Robin served as a consultant to the Office of Statewide Performance Review in the Illinois Governor’s Office and is former director of the Illinois Center for Competitive Government, a partnership between the Illinois Comptroller’s Office and the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs at Western Illinois University. Prior to that, he was Director of the Local Government Affairs Division of the Illinois Comptroller’s Office. Robin served on the Board of Directors of the National Council for Public-Private Partnerships (NCPPP) in 1999-2000.