Obama’s State of the Union Take on the Economy: This Time, It’s Personal
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In the 1960s, one of the rallying cries of the rising feminist movement was that “the personal is political.” In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Obama turned that saying on its ear with a list of proposals that argued, again and again, that the personal is economic — and the economic is political.
Obama’s speech covered a lot of ground, addressing the need to restore the nation’s infrastructure and the need for federally funded preschool, the value of education programs and…
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