Food Prices Under Biden-Harris Slammed Working-Class Families But Now They Pretend to Have an Answer
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the Democratic National Convention and the Democrats' double talk on price gouging, as well as a new report showing that hundreds of for-profit and not-for-profit colleges have closed in the last decade.
Professor Richard Wolff is an author & co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. You can find his work at rdwolff.com.
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| 0:00.0 | The Democratic National Convention is in full swing. |
| 0:05.8 | At the same time, a new report indicates that hundreds of colleges have shuttered in the last |
| 0:11.5 | decade leaving students with a huge debt but without a school. |
| 0:16.2 | As the cost of a college education skyrockets and more shut down, for-profit and not-for-profit students |
| 0:23.3 | are left holding the bag. |
| 0:26.0 | We need a new system. |
| 0:28.1 | We need a new society. |
| 0:30.0 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is |
| 0:35.2 | not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. We are excited to have Professor Richard Wolf join us again for our regular weekly segment |
| 1:06.5 | where we talk about the biggest stories related to the economy. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:12.7 | The Socialist Program brings you content several days a week |
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| 1:29.1 | Richard Wolfe is the co-founder of the organization Democracy at Work. |
| 1:32.4 | He's the author of many books, including Understanding Capitalism, which is now available |
| 1:37.6 | at Democracy at Work.Info. |
| 1:40.5 | Professor Wolfe, welcome back. |
| 1:42.5 | Thank you very much, Brian. |
| 1:43.9 | Glad to be here. |
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