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Economic Update: Puerto Rico: Colony and Laboratory

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Updates on Obama’s re-election, unemployment’s social costs, and Kodak’s betrayal of retirees. Interview journalist Ed Morales: history of Puerto Rico as US colony and policy laboratory and global crisis’s impact on Puerto Rico since 2007. Response on how differently educated, trained, and skilled workers could fully, democratically participate in workers self-directed enterprises (WSDEs).
On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis.

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