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Economic Update: Struggles Over the Welfare State

Richard D. Wolff gives updates on the tentative budget deal in Congress, psychiatrists refusing insurance, austerity’s terrible toll on Ireland; and more.

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Updates on the tentative budget deal in Congress, psychiatrists refusing insurance and austerity’s terrible toll on Ireland. Interview with Yale History Prof. Jennifer Klein on rise, fall and possible rise again of the US welfare state and organized labor. Response to questions on possibilities of worker take-over of Boeing in Seattle.

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