In this broadcast, Dean Baker, the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research discusses the obscenity of celebrating a massive gift to corporate America and the richest Americans while taking away health care coverage for millions of Americans and letting the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, lapse. Jason Furman, a professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School, who served as the top economic adviser to Barack Obama, discusses the difference between the economy that Obama inherited and the one that he handed over to Donald Trump that Trump is taking credit for. And a look into the fate of CHIP with Joan Alker, the executive director of the Center for Children and Families. Background Briefing is a radio program featuring international and national news, expert guests, policy makers and critics with analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural and social issues. A production of The Full Disclosure Media Foundation (fdmedia.org).