290 Rebecca Vallas introduces us to important policy experts and leaders in the Biden Administration

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Today I recapped the end of the impeachment inquiry with lots of sound from the weekend and the hearing then at 27:00...

My guest today is what I call an "Anti Poverty Hero." She is an expert in Poverty, disability, Social Security, criminal justice and re-entry policy. We talked about the Clean Slate Initiative. Rebecca Vallas is a senior fellow at American Progress, where she has spent the past five years helping to build and lead CAP’s Poverty to Prosperity Program in a range of roles including as the program’s managing director and vice president—and along the way, helping to launch the organization’s criminal justice reform and disability justice work. She is also the host of the Off Kilter podcast Follow Rebecca on Twitter @RebeccaVallas

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