9 million fewer workers are employed today than a year ago.

Tens of thousands of small businesses are shut.

State and local governments are planning deep cuts.

This is a war against America's working class.

We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have

sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity.

Music Deepening unemployment, a looming wave of evictions, massive and widening inequality.

There's no denying it.

Capitalism is in crisis and capitalism is the crisis.

We are joined again by Professor Richard Wolfe. He talks to us every week in this

weekly segment where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy, the state of

the working class, and the crimes of big business. And we'll talk about how the economy can be

reconstituted on a new basis so that the needs of the people and the planet

come first. Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. He's the author

of many, many books, the latest being, The System is the Sickness, When Capitalism

fails to save us from pandemics or itself. You can check out his work

at R-D-Wolf.com. That's R-D-W-O-L-F-F dot com. Professor Wolf, welcome back.

Thank you very much. Glad to be here. Thank you so much for joining. We want to talk about the stimulus

package so-called that has now passed both houses of Congress. You know, it's interesting.

Donald Trump said that he wanted to send $2,000 to every home, but his advisors and aides talked him out of this wild and crazy idea.

Earlier, Bernie Sanders and AOC, the more progressive liberal or social democratic folks inside of the Senate or inside the House of Representatives had called for $2,000 a month

to be sent. But finally, when you look at all of the way this allocation is broken down,

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