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Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Richard Wolff delivers updates on the North Carolina union election at an Amazon warehouse, the deportation of immigrants, and the U.S. construction industry, a lesson in how capitalism installs new technology like A.I. and how it could be far better done. In the second half of this week's episode, Professor Wolff interviews Serena Martin, a formerly incarcerated social activist and executive director of New Hour for Women and Children.

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0:00.0	Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic
0:26.5	dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host, Richard Wolfe.
0:32.4	We're going to be covering a number of topics today, organizing by workers at Amazon,
0:39.8	the construction industry and deporting immigrants, and finally a lesson in technology this
0:47.3	time devoted to artificial intelligence.
0:51.9	But as usual, before we jump in, three quick, short announcements.
0:57.0	One, I want to apologize for having made a mistake recently when I talked about the coincidence
1:05.7	of the inauguration of President Trump and the anniversary of Martin Luther King, where I spoke of the anniversary
1:15.4	being the anniversary of his assassination.
1:19.1	That was a mistake, and I do apologize.
1:22.1	It is in fact the anniversary of his birth.
1:26.7	The contrast between these two remains the point I was
1:30.7	trying to make, but I should be more accurate and I appreciate that many of you
1:36.2	wrote in to help me become more accurate. I also want to remind you that our new book, Understanding Capitalism, is a kind
1:48.6	of companion piece to this program, and I urge you to make use of it in that way. We'll
1:55.6	have a little bit more to say about our special edition copy later on in the program.
2:03.8	And finally, I want to remind you that Charlie is available to take your suggestions, which
2:09.5	you keep sending in and which are very useful to us, Charlie.
2:15.3	.info38 at gmail.com.
2:20.3	Okay, let's jump right in.
2:24.3	In Garner, North Carolina, that's part of the American South,
2:30.3	4,300 Amazon warehouse workers are having an election to form a union.
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