Born Sick in the USA: Improving The Health of a Nation
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on the 3 major teachers' unions struggling with the LA Unified School District, rising electricity costs in the U.S., and corrupt utility commissions, and on the extreme redistribution of wealth from the lower 99% to the richest 1% in the U.S. from 1990 to 2025. The second half of today's show features an interview with public health professor Stephen Bezruchka on the economic and political roots of widespread sickness in the U.S., as analyzed in his new book, "Born Sick in the USA: Improving the Health of a Nation".
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:27.0 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. |
| 0:33.5 | Before we begin today, I want to remind those of you who are interested that recordings |
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| 2:23.2 | Okay, in today's program, we're going to be dealing with strikes, the history of wealth creation |
| 2:31.1 | in the United States, electricity costs, and in the second half a |
| 2:36.3 | remarkable interview with a guest who's appeared on our program before, Professor |
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