In the first half of the episode, Abed Ayoub (Legal and Policy Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee) and Deepa Iyer (Senior Fellow at the Center For Social Inclusion and author of We Too Sing America) discuss what Obama’s dismantlement of NSEERS will mean for Muslims in the US during the next presidency.
Then, Robert Pollin (Distinguished Professor of Economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst) and Dean Baker (co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research) forecast how successfully they expect Trump will steer the US economy.