Expanding state-funded medical care, free higher education, student debt relief and increase in minimum wages were some of the issues that fuelled the populist revolt on the Left ahead of the 2016 election in the U.S., while on the Right of the political spectrum, populism rode a nativist and racist wave.
As potential candidates brush up their credentials ahead of the 2020 primaries, one issue appears to be firing up the imagination of the American people — a job guarantee programme funded by the federal government, on the lines of India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. More than […]
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