The Fight Against Money Corrupting Politics
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
Democracy at Work
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on Bernie-endorsed Independent U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner in Maine, the latest Gallup poll showing that 68% Americans are pro-union, more than 97% of park workers at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon parks vote to unionize, ICE has so far deported half a million, while DOGE has fired a million federal workers (mostly high-wage) resulting in a significant net job loss nationwide. The second half of the show features an interview with Trent Lange, leader of the California movement to get money out of politics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the |
| 0:26.8 | economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. |
| 0:34.9 | Before jumping into today's programs, very quickly, three announcements of events I think you |
| 0:42.2 | will find worthwhile and interesting. |
| 0:45.5 | The first one reminds you of a book launch for an important new book on the prospects and the |
| 0:53.7 | risks of fascism in the United States. |
| 0:57.3 | It will take place in New York City on September 24th at 6 p.m. at the Francis Kite Club, East |
| 1:05.1 | Village No. 40 Avenue C. There will be some of the authors whose work is collected in this book at the |
| 1:14.4 | hosting of the publisher OR books. You can find out details by going to our website, |
| 1:20.5 | Democracy at Work.Info, and click on the banner there. A little time is left to register for the second item, a course, |
| 1:32.0 | a short course, sponsored by the Left Educational Project of the Left Forum, working together |
| 1:39.8 | with Democracy at Work. It's a short course called critically understanding capitalism |
| 1:46.0 | and begins on September 15th. Four weeks, four sessions online, taught by professors Clara |
| 1:54.0 | Matte, University of Tulsa, Sharam Azar, Bucknell University of Pennsylvania, and myself. |
| 2:03.5 | It's a university-level course, condensed, short, trying to give you a critical understanding |
| 2:10.5 | of capitalism. |
| 2:11.7 | I urge you to think about participating. |
| 2:15.5 | Find out more. www.w.w.L.forum.org slash LEP for Left Educational Project. |
| 2:25.3 | And the third and probably the biggest event is a public event on October 9th at John |
| 2:32.3 | J. College of the City University of New York, a program entitled |
| 2:37.7 | It's Time, It's Time, and Where Do We Go From Here Now That It's Time? |
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