Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the

economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children.

I'm your host, Richard Wolfe.

As usual, I want to remind you that Charlie is a waiting word if you have ideas, suggestions, materials

for us to consider in terms of future program segments. You can reach them at Charlie.Info

438 at gmail.com. I want to say a word also about our newly released book, Understanding Capitalism.

While it was made to help teachers and students get a different take on capitalism,

balancing the cheerleading that goes on in most schools, the book is also written for activists, for those of you that

are actively engaged in movements for social justice of one kind or another.

Here is a book that will provide you with a kind of lesson plan, if you think of it,

a way to connect your particular struggle around your

particular issues to the larger questions of the capitalist system that shapes everything

we do in many, many important ways. It'll make you a better organizer. It will teach you

things you can in turn teach to the people you're

working with it's a way to be more useful to them in knowing how the economic

system impacts the issues you're working on all right let's turn to our

economic updates for today.

And they're all on a similar kind of theme.

You might call the theme waking up about issues that should have been addressed long ago.

So let's begin with a remarkable development. Universities and politicians

around the country are upset when people are out there protesting as they have every

right to do, important issues about which Americans disagree. If ever there was a reason to welcome,

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