Economic Update: Using Unemployment Against Workers

THIS WEEK'S TOPICS (w/timestamps): 00:43 - Updates on high US maternal death rate; 02:33 - wealth inequality and the Pope; 08:21 - #MeToo hits the banks; 10:45 - Macron and Black Rock plot French pension "reform;" 12:56 - dying Newsweek caught in corruption scandal using bible college; 14:14 - announcements; 15:09 - SPECIAL GUEST: Prof. Wolff interviews Prof. Gertrude Goldberg on US unemployment, its social costs, and struggle for a universal job guarantee.

Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff takes complex economic issues and makes them understandable, empowering listeners with information to analyze not only their financial situation but the economy at large. By focusing on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits - the program explores alternative ways to organize markets and government policies.

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