#1377 Building a Solidarity Economy for a More Resilient Future
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 October 2020
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Air Date 10/27/2020
Today we take a look at some idea for rebuilding our economy and our society in a way that will help everyone recover from the pandemic and make us more ready for the next emergency we face.
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Ch. 1: What it would take to end child poverty in America - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 8-20-20
Lee and I discuss the psychological impact that poverty has on kids, why investing in children is one of the best investments a society can make, what other countries do right on this front that we can learn from, what it would take to end child poverty.
Jessyn and Nick tackle the value of care work, the impossibility of finding affordable child care, and the importance of feminist economics with economist Kate Bahn.
Economist and author Jeff Madrick joins Sam to discuss his latest book, Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty and how coronavirus austerity will further strip the US welfare system. What people should understand about child poverty.
US economy was spiraling out of control in 2008 and 2009, economist James Galbraith predicted that an insufficiently large stimulus would lead to a prolonged recession; he was right, Today he has a set of economic prescriptions for COVID-19 crisis relief
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Economist Lindsay Owens proposes an alternative plan: a standing, off-the-shelf program to stabilize the economy in the event of an economic emergency.
Rev. William Barber says the 2020 election debates have steadfastly ignored the subject of poverty, even though it affected almost half the United States population before the COVID-19 pandemic and millions more people are struggling since then.
Ch. 9: Homelessness on the Rise Amid Coronavirus Pandemic - The Takeaway - Air Date 10-1-20
According to the Eviction Lab, in 17 cities that they tracked, there have been more than 53,000 evictions since the pandemic began.
Paul talks to Groundwork Collaborative strategic advisor Kitty Richards about how states can act now to invest in their residents, bolster their economies, and push back against skyrocketing inequality.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of a left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:06.9 | learn about some ideas for rebuilding our economy and our society in a way that will help |
| 0:12.1 | everyone recover from the pandemic and make us more ready for the next emergency we face. |
| 0:18.0 | Clips today are from the Ezra Klein Show, Pitch Fork Economics, the majority report, |
| 0:23.8 | deconstructed, democracy now, and the takeaway. |
| 0:33.3 | One of the things that I think coronavirus has done, although I'm not sure it's always |
| 0:38.3 | stated this way, is give a lot of people with more wealth and resources and idea what it is like |
| 0:44.6 | to be a working parent without wealth and resources. What it's like to try to juggle not having |
| 0:50.4 | child care for your kids but having a job, not having a reliable way to make sure those two |
| 0:55.4 | things are separated, not have reliable care because you can't always get it, not be able to lean |
| 0:59.8 | on family who maybe you already had. And I wonder if there's some kind of solidarity that could come |
| 1:05.9 | out of this because I think a lot of people are seeing that when you don't have the ability to |
| 1:12.2 | make sure your children cared for, your ability to work, your ability to move ahead at work, |
| 1:15.5 | your ability to be productive, all those things that we end up patting ourselves on the back for doing |
| 1:19.5 | is we, you know, if we're lucky enough to be moving up in the economy, that really depends on |
| 1:24.8 | child care. And the fact that so many people do not have the capacity to rely on that, that's |
| 1:30.0 | happened to almost everybody during the pandemic, but it often strikes me that what's happening to |
| 1:34.1 | so many during the pandemic is simply what normal life is like for a lot of people outside the pandemic. |
| 1:39.4 | Unfortunately, this pandemic has become and many respects to like you summarize it and equalizer. |
| 1:46.7 | And I think coming out of this, I think there'll be a greater sensitivity to what low income |
| 1:54.7 | families have to deal with each and every day. And I think that this gives us an opportunity to |
| 2:01.1 | form broader political coalitions. Talk about suburban white housewives or suburban white mothers |
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