Carter and the Economy: Curbing Inflation | PBS
Duration: 02:08
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American Experience
Broadcast Date: Dec. 14, 2011
In the summer of 1979, inflation rose to 14 percent. In response, Carter cut the budgets of social programs, leading to criticism from African American leaders and members of the "traditional FDR coalition."
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