for voters to do the thing that they promised to do as npr reports, quote, withi the first two months of th many months long legislative session, democrats pass thei centerpiece tax plan, a bill t repeal the states defunct 1931 abortion ban and legislation t create civil rights protection for lgbtq people and just this week, democrat moved closer to fulfilling yet another big priority for workers in michigan, repealing a republican anti union la that we can see unions b allowing workers to opt out of paying union dues. here is state senator darrin camilleri before the vote on why restoring rights for workers is so important. my family came to detroit and michigan because of th promise of a union we knew that my family would b protected, not be discriminate against and there ar opportunities and voices would be heard in a workplace that i unlike any other place in th country. michigan is the hope and
nationwide run on the banks when he got inaugurated this was in the middle of of the great depression, of course, 1933 and during the term of the previous president, republican herbert hoover, who had a disastrous presidency. during hoover s time in office there d been a series of banking panics, people making runs on banks. it happened in specific parts of the country in 1930 and 1931 but in 1932 there was a really big surge in bank failures in both the west and midwest and there started to be a national panic. in 1932 when that national panic was taking hold, individual states started declaring bank holidays nevada was the first one who did it, but then other states including michigan followed suit individual states started declaring holidays they started declaring all banks would be closed on specific days
herbert hoover, who had disastrous presidency in economic terms, during hoover time in office, there had been a series of banking panics people making runs on banks. it happened in specific part of the country in 1930, and in 1931 but then in 1932, there was really big surge in bank failures in both the west an the midwest. and there started to be national panic in 1932, when that nationa panic was taking hold, individual states starte declaring bank holidays. that was the first one to do it but then other states including michigan, followed suit individual states starte declaring holidays, they started declaring all banks to be close on specific days, basically just to stop peopl from rushing in and pulling al of their deposits an collapsing more banks. but doing that in a piecemea way, doing that state by state sort of happenstance, random
big as the biggest bank failure relative to the size of the economy then as was this case in 1931 in your city, new york. neil: so you re not worried about a contagion even though you talked about people becoming crazy, people got really crazy back then and it fed on itself. do you see that repeating? first, my comments about crazy were about the fed. second, kind of the last week reminds me of miranda lambert s hit song, something bad, got a bad feeling, something bad about to happen. too many people had that feeling. banking is not the best shape but almost the best shape it s
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