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Economic Update: Corporations Are the Problem
This episode covers Market Basket workers' recent victory, top paid asset managers, Chipotle's gross inequality, Montreal corruption and the Russia/China economic alliance.
Economic Update: Big Changes Coming
This episode covers food insecurity, oil disaster economics, politicos going to Wall Street, billionaires buying homes, education in the UK and how the US sustains elites.
Pesticides on the Playground
Is your children’s schoolyard routinely sprayed with pesticides? How safe your children are might depend on where you live.
Economic Update: Corporate Economics
This episode covers Burger King, French socialism, cell phone overcharging, Bank of America's fine, and more.
Surplus Military
Weapons makers don't just do war work of course.
Chlorpyrifos: Banned for Most Americans, Farmworkers and Their Children Left Behind
The pesticide chlorpyrifos was banned for household use over a dozen years ago, but it is still widely applied in agriculture.
Economic Update: From Ferguson to the Retirement Crisis
This episode covers inequality and growth and the economic lessons from Ferguson.
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Ya Basta: How Zapatismo Has Influenced the US
The music, art, culture and resistance of the Zapatistas have had a global influence.
Economic Update: Markets and Immigration
Updates on the drop in most Americans' household wealth and how Social Security finances are more about wages than aging.
Economic Update: From Bad Loans to Taxing the Property of the Wealthy
Updates on the Pentagon's overpayments; mortgages tilting toward the rich; the subprime car loan bubble; and silence about intangible property tax.