Jacob Hacker: middle class keeps losing out

Part 2 of Remapping Debate’s interview with Jacob Hacker, who is also the co-author with Paul Pierson of “Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy,” picks up with a discussion of how and why pro-labor legislation was defeated in 1978, a time when a Democrat was in the White House and Democrats controlled both the Senate and the House of Representatives.