And the 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 Wolf. I want to let you know again that we are just about

ready to release a new book that I wrote called Understanding Capitalism.

In a way, it is a kind of summary of all of the work

that I've tried to do over the 12 years

that this program has been on the air without fail every week.

What I've learned, which is a lot, condensed down to something that can help you if you're a interested person, if you're an

activist, if you're a unionist, if you're politically involved. This is a way to

understand the economic system we live in and how it shapes

everything that we see and do struggle for and struggle against.

I hope you'll find it of interest.

We'll have a lot more to tell you about it in the weeks ahead

and how to get a copy if you're interested.

Okay, today we're going to be talking about the problem of Uber and Lyft drivers, of whom there are huge numbers in our country now.

We're going to talk about the climate and who is helping and who is hurting

our concerns about climate change.

And finally, the bizarre decision in one European country to get more work out of working people, even after a terrible

pandemic which hit Greece, the country in question, harder than it hit most.

And then in the second half we will interview again Rob Robinson,

a formerly homeless advocate who will talk about the implications of the

latest Supreme Court decision about a town in Oregon that is throwing homeless people in jail.

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