The This is Jacob and Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman.

The Cares Act expires this week, meaning the Lifeline supplement of $600 comes to an end unless Congress and the Senate

negotiate a new package to deal with the economic catastrophe in the midst of the still

surging pandemic. The mostly secret negotiations are the

mostly secret negotiations are stuck by divisions within the Republicans,

while the Democrats pushing their heroes package

don't appear to have a clear strategy to win.

David Dayen, editor of the American Prospect,

whose daily unsanitized reports have so carefully

unpacked the details of the CARES Act showing who has benefited most is with us to discuss

this last minute stalled negotiations over what kind of extension or package we're likely to see.

Then later in the show, Alex Vatale, author of the End of Policing,

joins us for a deeper look into the nature and role of policing as a critical component of maintaining

our economic system, essentially as a tool of social

control.

Police violence in Alex Vatale's view is not an aberration to be reformed, but a feature

of the system. We get Alex's take on various reform efforts, how he

sees police and camouflaged federal cops quelling the broad movement that has emerged in response to police killings

and how he envisions public safety without policing.

All this when our program returns in just a moment. This is the

This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Susie Weisman and I'm Susie Weisman and very pleased today to have David Dayen with us again. He is the executive editor of the American Prospect. His work appears just about everywhere, especially you can read unsanitized his I think daily report and he's done probably more than most to uncover the sort of maybe we

shouldn't call it shenanigans but I will of the CARES Act and he's had two books the first one we talked about right here the chain of title how three ordinary Americans uncovered Wall Street's great foreclosure fraud that came out in 2016 and won prizes and the new book is published

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