Today's Agents of Change: Strikes, Unionization & Labor Militancy
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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[Economic Update S13 E37] Today's Agents of Change: Strikes, Unionization & Labor Militancy
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"Updates on how Social Security makes African-Americans subsidize whites, lessons from a new survey of young Americans' politics, the injustice of Europe's central bank raising its interest rates, Taylor Swift publicly supports Hollywood strikers, and Coco Gauff publicly supports climate change activists. Interview Mike Elk, Editor of The Payday Report, tracking the strike wave across America and especially the huge autoworker's strike." Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a @democracyatwrk production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so. You can support our work by joining our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwork Every donation counts and helps us spread Prof. Wolff's message to a larger audience.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome friends to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the |
| 0:15.7 | economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm your host, Richard Wolf. |
| 0:22.6 | I want to thank those of you that have written in to Charlie, the volunteer whose email I'm |
| 0:28.4 | going to give you in a moment who collects your suggestions, your resources, your interesting |
| 0:33.5 | articles that can help us develop our program. |
| 0:38.0 | And indeed, the first item on our program today comes from one of you. |
| 0:44.2 | And so I want to give you Charlie's email again for those of you who didn't know it down |
| 0:48.9 | before to use it. |
| 0:50.9 | Charlie, usual spelling, Charlie.info438 at gmail.com. |
| 0:59.2 | Today's program is going to delve into the social security system and how you might be surprised |
| 1:05.0 | by the way it works as a subsidy for white people given to them at their expense by black |
| 1:12.6 | people. |
| 1:13.6 | It is something I did not know before, even though I study the subject. |
| 1:17.6 | And so I'm going to share that with you and it comes from a listener who put me on to |
| 1:23.0 | this story. |
| 1:24.0 | We're also going to talk about a poll of young Americans, 18 to 34 whose results will |
| 1:30.7 | surprise you. |
| 1:31.7 | We're going to talk about rising interest rates in Europe and what light it sheds on the |
| 1:37.3 | process of raising interest rates here in the United States. |
| 1:41.9 | And then we're going to talk about a very important set of activities undertaken by |
| 1:47.0 | two celebrities, Taylor Swift in one area and Coco Gough in another. |
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