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Economic Update: Why Worker Co-ops?

This weeks episode discusses the Australian government taxing big banks, how big banks fund the Dakota Access pipeline and much more.

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This week’s episode discusses the Australian government taxing big banks, how big banks fund the Dakota Access pipeline, the meaning of the French elections and more. The episode also includes guest Professor Jessica Gordon Nembhard, a historian of worker co-ops and the African-American community, who addresses the question “why worker co-ops?”

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