The Biden administration is rolling out its new major economic proposal, promising to create

huge numbers of jobs and enact policies beneficial to working people.

But what is this plan really?

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. 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 excited to have Professor Richard Wolfe join us for our regular 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.

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Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work.

He's the author of many books, the latest being,

The Sickness is the System when Capitalism capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or

itself. You can check out his work at rd wolf.com and that's r d woldff.com. Richard Wolfe,

welcome back. Thank you. Glad to be here. Thank you for joining. Okay, we're going to talk mainly

today about the big news, the big, big news about the economy. President Biden in the Biden

administration rolling out what is described as a massive, massive infrastructure plan, a $3 trillion plan coming as it does on top of

the $1.9 trillion relief package that was passed a couple weeks ago. A lot is being made about how

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