Jacobin Radio: Our Squeezed, Post-Recession Lives

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🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Suzi talks to Joel Jordan and then Alissa Quart, who in different ways are both looking at our squeezed post-recession lives and the fight to win or win back a decent standard of living. Longtime teacher and teacher-union strategist Joel Jordan joins us to talk about the spectacular mass strikes of the red-state teachers — and draw comparisons with the worsening conditions for teachers in California. Then, Suzi seapks with Alissa Quart about her new book, Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America, which tells the stories of the financial instability — and downward mobility — of what she calls the "middle precariat": highly educated but insecure, so-called middle-class Americans who can barely afford to raise children and meet expenses.

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0:00.0	This is Jacobin Radio and I'm Susie Wiseman.
0:08.9	This is Jacobin Radio and I'm Susie Wiseman.
0:11.8	Today we talk about variations of the squeezed life
0:15.0	were struggling against in the United States. First by looking at the
0:19.2	recent teachers and public sector strike wave in red states and the lessons and comparisons for California
0:25.4	also facing worsening conditions with educator and union strategies Joel Jordan.
0:32.2	And then, Alyssa Court previews her new book, Squeezed Why Our Families Can't Afford America.
0:39.0	It tells the stories of the downward mobility and financial instability of what she calls the middle
0:45.1	precarious, highly educated but insecure, so-called middle-class Americans who can barely
0:51.0	afford to raise children and meet expenses.
0:54.0	spoiler alert, Alyssa Court ends with suggested solutions and hope.
0:59.0	All that, when we return in just a moment on Jack of the Radio.
1:03.0	Welcome to Jackachovan Radio. I'm Susie Wiseman and we're going to begin
1:17.4	today's program with Joel Jordan. We're going to be looking at the wave of teacher strikes that have taken place and enthused so many,
1:27.3	but also to evaluate the strike wave and look at the comparisons for California and the lessons for California.
1:35.0	And Joel Jordan is a retired LA Unified High School Teacher.
1:40.0	He's a longtime activist in the UTLA, the United Teachers of Los Angeles.
1:45.1	He is the former UTLA director of special projects, widely known as The
1:50.3	Strategist for the Union, and currently currently is a coordinator for the California
1:55.4	Alliance of Community Schools which is a consortium of nine large urban teachers
2:00.4	unions in California that are fighting for increased public school funding and against
2:06.0	school privatization.
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