The civil rights movement was an economic movement too

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The American civil rights movement was about more than attitudes around racism. It also fought to expand workers’ rights and access to housing and good jobs. We’ll chart the economic agenda the movement outlined decades ago, which is sometimes left out of the conversation today. Plus, a look at how gross domestic product figures get revised and what a drop in unemployment claims says about the job market.

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1:01.9	On the program today, how we measure this economy, what the labour market is telling us
1:07.1	right now about this economy and the civil rights movements and this economy. From American
1:13.8	public media, this is Marketflex. In Los Angeles, I'm Kai. Rizdole is Thursday
1:28.4	today, the 23rd day of February. Good as always to have you along. Everybody there is within
1:34.7	the Department of Commerce an office called the Bureau of Economic Analysis that is responsible
1:40.8	among a whole lot of other things for figuring out the total value of all the goods and services
1:45.6	produced in this economy. The gross domestic product GDP. We talk about it a lot because
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