50 million people in the United States are hungry. Food lines stretch longer, 40 million face eviction,

and these are all policy choices made by politicians in capitalist America. Welcome to today's

episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist Program with Brian Becker. It's December 15th,

2020. This is an in-depth look at the biggest

stories in the news right now, today, and this week. We look beyond the headlines and expose

the distortions in the corporate-owned media. I'm Nicole Roussel here with Walter Smalerick,

Esther Ester Iveram, and our host, Brian Becker. 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.

Thank you. Nicole, thank you. Esther, Walter.

Thank you again for joining this important show.

We know, and we're going to talk about the fact that the Electoral College, yes, the

electoral college has finally determined who the next president will be,

and that, of course, will be Joe Biden.

We're going to talk a little bit about that and the reactions to the period before

and then yesterday's Electoral College vote and what the Electoral College actually is.

But I think it's appropriate that we start with an issue that most

Americans, well, let's put it this way. Let's start with an issue that at least 50 million

Americans are consumed with thinking about dealing with, struggling with every day such that they wouldn't

give a hoot about the electoral college meeting yesterday. And I'm talking about hunger in America.

50 million people in this, the richest country in the world, that's the formulation that

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