#1344 Everything is Political (Social Safety Net in a Time of Pandemic)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 3/20/2020
Today we take a look at the social safety net we need in the face of Coronavirus and the forces preventing us from having it.
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SHOW NOTES
Some suddenly realize that we need a real social safety net
Labor Department data says that one in four workers have no access to paid sick leave, including two-thirds of lowest earners. The U.S. is one of the only wealthy countries that does not require employers to offer its workers paid sick leave.
Author Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill discuss the bipartisan ruling coalition that created and supported a health system where profits are more important than public health
In a modern, functioning, democratic society, how should a public health crisis be handled? And what would America's response to the coronavirus pandemic look like if we had a universal healthcare system such as Medicare For All?
Ch. 5: Society Run By Criminal Rackets Not Great For Public Health - The Majority Report - Air Date 3-15-20
In this Majority Report clip, Kevin McCarthy is sure everything is going to be fine.
Ch. 6: The coronavirus election - The Weeds - Air Date 3-17-20
Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias discuss Donald Trump’s disastrous coronavirus speech and dueling pandemic response plans from Sanders and Biden.
We play highlights from the debate and get responses from scholars Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 8: Misrepresenting Biden voters - Erin from Philadelphia
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments on the nature of the cliff that we’re all on the edge of
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:07.6 | about the social safety net we need in the face of coronavirus and the forces preventing |
| 0:13.3 | us from having it. |
| 0:15.3 | However, before we get started, as Joel, our production assistant here at the show, said |
| 0:22.2 | very concisely non-traditional times call for non-traditional podcasts. |
| 0:29.4 | And so what I am predicting is that things are going to be in flux for a little while. |
| 0:35.4 | The schedule of the show is going to be in flux for a little while. |
| 0:38.8 | We are going to be trying some totally different things to manage the situation we're in |
| 0:45.4 | because trying to do things normally feels like the least normal thing to do right now. |
| 0:54.1 | So my first idea of what to do in a non-traditional way is to sort of have a check-in here at |
| 1:01.6 | the beginning of the show and address the thing that is in the forefront of everyone's |
| 1:09.8 | mind is just how we're dealing with this, how everyone is dealing with the situation |
| 1:16.7 | and how we're feeling about it. |
| 1:18.1 | Amanda has joined me here at the beginning. |
| 1:20.1 | Hey everyone. |
| 1:21.1 | And so we're just going to talk about how our week has been. |
| 1:25.0 | This is like lockdown week one, more or less. |
| 1:28.4 | How are you feeling about it? |
| 1:30.4 | Oh man, how am I feeling about it? |
| 1:33.1 | I think that now knowing what may come that things are probably and going to get worse, |
| 1:44.1 | trying to have that expectation set because as we know expectations are really important. |
| 1:50.7 | And so we can definitely have the expectations that things are going to get worse before |
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