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Economic Update: Profits and Families

This episode discusses public pension economics, and more.

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This episode discusses Irish bankers being jailed, US public pension economics and the Yale dining hall worker who won back his job after smashing a racist stained-glass window depicting slaves picking cotton. We also interview Dr. Harriet Fraad on how the post-1970s profit-driven US economy badly damaged intimate life.

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