#197: Staunch Conservative Reveals She’s Voting For Biden; Workers Fear Speaking Up On COVID Safety

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Episode 197: The last name “Hoover” is, if I can use this term, a brand name in conservative circles. Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the U.S. who served during the Great Depression, taking office in 1929 the year the stock market crashed—an apt historical reference for today perhaps since the economic implosion we are living through is the worst in a century dating back at least to the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s. Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast and at ActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1 His great-granddaughter Margaret Hoover has kept the Hoover flame alive—both in her attention to Herbert’s legacy and her own work as a conservative commentator. Margaret and I have known each other since the 2016 election cycle. We have vigorous, but respectful, disagreements about actual policy. In the wake of the two parties’ political conventions, Margaret joins me to talk about politics—and she reveals for the first time publicly that she’s voting for Joe Biden (which says as much about Biden’s politics as it does about Margaret, and the battle progressives will face should there be a Biden Administration). Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast and at ActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1 As I’ve reported numerous times from the COVID-19 frontlines, workers are getting sick and dying from COVID-19. The added twist: they are afraid to speak up, largely because, no surprise, corporations are putting enormous pressure on workers to suck it up, whatever the cost. Jessica Martinez, the co-director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH), joins the show to give the lowdown on the dangers facing workers and the failure of government safety inspectors to make sure hundreds of thousands of stay safe during the pandemic. Support the Working Life Network here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast and at ActBlue: secure.actblue.com/donate/working-life-1 -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3