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Economic Update: Unemployment Analyzed
Updates on Marvins' “shared unemployment,” $4 trillion profits hoarded by US corporations, and root issues of the “fiscal cliff.” Discussion of solutions for unemployment. Responses to listeners: on pluses …
Economic Update: People, Power and False Economics
Updates and discussion of pensions and guns, fiscal cliff, charitable tax deductions, Mondragon, the environment, and prison economics.
Life or Death: Ending the Death Penalty
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty.
Economic Update: Conditions of the Working Class
Updates on Newtown, CT. school shooting, global warming and the CIA, Hostess abuses workers' pensions, and growing gap between CEOs' and workers' pay.
Economic Update: Systemic Crises – Economic and Ecological
Updates on unpaid law clerks, Buffett's minimum tax on high incomes, and CBO report on medical care costs and federal deficits.
Saving or Selling the Planet? REDD, Climate Change and Indigenous Lands
International organizations like the World Bank are backing legislation that asks polluters to offset their pollution by paying governments.
Economic Update: Inconvenient Economic Truths
Updates on unpaid law clerks, Buffett's minimum tax on high incomes, and CBO report on medical care costs and federal deficits.
Economic Update: Worker’s Self-Directed Enterprises
Richard D. Wolff: Worker self-direction is a solution for the bankrupt Hostess bakery.
Native Harvest for a Modern World
Sustainable agriculture was a way of life, but U.S. federal policies helped put an end to that.
Economic Update: Capitalism’s Costly Uneven Development: Detroit
Updates on politicians' big business incomes after their government jobs and the debate over social security.