Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the

economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children.

I'm your host, Richard Wolfe.

I want to remind you as usual, Charlie Fabian is awaiting messages from you about how we can make this

program better, what you like, don't like, and so on. You can reach him at Charlie.Info438

at gmail.com. And as I also remind you mostly, we have a book that is a kind of companion to this program,

a way to learn more about U.S. capitalism beyond the particular segments of each of these shows.

It's called Understanding Capitalism.

I wrote it, we released it this year, and I would urge you to consider using it as a way

to get deeper into what we do on this program.

If you like the program, I think you'll value the book. Okay, we're going

to talk today about the senator from Iowa, Joni Ernst. We're going to talk about health

care workers in the state of Connecticut, and then we're going to talk about the advertising

business. In the second half of today's show, we'll be interviewing Professor Arleigh

Horschild, who has written a new book which continues research she did in an earlier book, in which she lives among interviews

the people who are the base and support for the Trump administration, maybe call them

the MAGA community, to try to understand why they feel and vote the way they do.

Sympathetic, but driven, as you'll see, by a desire to understand what that's all about.

Whether you like it or not is a separate matter.

What Professor Hoshel does better than anyone I know is really understand what is going

on. And that's why she'll be with us in the second half of the show. Okay, we begin with

Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa. She is a Republican and as a member of the United States Senate,

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