Gist: The First “Welfare Queen”
Podcast |
Slate Daily Feed
Publisher |
Slate Podcasts
Media Type |
audio
Publication Date |
May 21, 2019
Episode Duration |
00:36:32
On The Gist, the gift to the Morehouse graduates is great, but should it be celebrated or just the standard? In the interview, Linda Taylor committed many crimes, but only one of them—welfare fraud—really mattered to politicians, the press, and the public. Anecdotes about kidnapping and possible murder would only get in the way of the portrait Ronald Reagan presented to American voters in 1976, of a woman whose defrauding of taxpayer money was typical among those dependent on social programs. Slate national editor Josh Levin wrote Slate’s most read story ever, and has expanded it into a book—The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth—and a Slate podcast: The Queen, available now wherever you get your podcasts.  In the Spiel, Anand Giridharadas fact checking Jared Diamond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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