Inequality Undermines Health & Healthcare in the U.S.

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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[EU S13 E41] Inequality Undermines Health & Healthcare in the U.S.

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"Updates on risks to UAW strike victories, realtors fined for collusion on real estate commissions, Bangladeshi strikes for higher minimum wages for clothing workers, China outmaneuvers Malaysia and US in rubber glove business, UN vote isolates US, Israel, Ukraine over Cuba embargo. Interview with Dr. Stephen Bezruchka on how economic inequality connects to stress, health problems, and inadequate healthcare."

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0:00.0	Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic
0:16.4	dimensions of our lives and those of our children.
0:19.9	I'm your host, Richard Wolf.
0:23.0	In today's program, we're covering many topics.
0:26.0	A little bit about the United Auto Workers' successful strikes and contracts
0:31.2	at the auto companies of this country.
0:33.4	Talk about the national realtors and a slap across their face and wrists that they got last week.
0:41.2	A strike in Bangladesh and how it affects all of us. More on the
0:46.3	competition between the United States and China and a remarkable vote in the
0:51.4	United Nations.
0:53.2	And that's all before we get to the second half
0:55.8	where we interview Professor Stephen Bezruchka
0:59.2	about the health care system here in the United States.
1:02.7	So let's jump right in.
1:05.0	The United Auto Workers, I don't have to tell you,
1:07.4	because we've covered it and many others have,
1:10.4	achieved really remarkable gains by going out on a brilliantly executed series of strikes
1:18.1	against Ford General Motors and the parent of Chrysler, the Stellantis company, and winning stunning
1:26.6	contracts 2530% increases and more particularly for the lower paid workers, thereby making good
1:36.2	on the commitment of the labor movement to equalize, to make for more genuine
1:41.6	equality in a society that talks about it, but rarely does very much about it.
1:48.0	But I want to talk about one particular dimension.
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