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Judge Approves Puerto Rico Debt Restructuring, But Unelected “Junta” Could Remain for Years Longer
In a major development, a federal judge on Tuesday approved a plan to restructure Puerto Rico’s massive debt. The proposal was presented by the territory’s U.S.-imposed Fiscal Control Board, and it reduces the biggest portion…
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“Essential But Excluded”: Pandemic Aid Left Out Undocumented Immigrants & Their U.S. Citizen Kids
Pandemic relief programs have helped millions of families get through the economic shocks of COVID-19, but undocumented immigrants — many of whom are essential workers — have been largely shut out of such federal aid.…
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“Unacceptable”: Rep. Jamaal Bowman Slams Manchin After Senator Says No to Build Back Better Plan
President Biden’s signature $1.75 trillion Build Back Better package appears to be dead after Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced on Fox News this Sunday he would not support the plan to expand…
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Systematic nature of consumerism
Author JD Mackinnon speaks with FSTV on the latest Just Solutions about the systematic nature of consumerism. Consumer spending is on the rise, despite the coronavirus, despite inflation and despite supply chain problems. In fact,…
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How Corporations Engage in Intense Union Busting
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Marcus Baram, a journalist at Capital and Main, where he has contributed several stories to the series, Inside the Secretive World of Union Busting As union organizing activity ramps up across…
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Strike Wave in the U.S.? Labor Historian Nelson Lichtenstein on Union Drives & Worker Revolts
As unionizing efforts have taken the U.S. by storm, we look at the history of the U.S. labor movement and how unions have acted as a bulwark against corporate power. Worker organizing at Starbucks, Kellogg’s…
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“Our Movement Is Growing”: How Starbucks Workers in Buffalo Fought Company’s Union Busting and Won
We look at the historic workers’ victory at the Elmwood Starbucks store in Buffalo, New York, where workers successfully voted to unionize last week, making them the first to do so among the coffee chain’s…
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Economic Update: Ecology Co-Ops & Profit
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on 50 years of fossil fuel corps putting profits before science, CVS to close 900 drugstores as part of decline of US workers living standards, FBI lies…
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Will the Feds Trigger A Full-Blown Recession?
Could the Feds "accidentally" trigger a recession just in time for the 2022 election? Richard Wolff warns that our economy is in "serious trouble." Biden reconfirmed Trump appointee Jerome Powell as Chairman of the Federal…
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“Your Debt Is Someone Else’s Asset”: Calls Mount to Cancel Debt & Halt Wealth Transfer to the Rich
As calls grow for Biden to extend the moratorium on student debt, we speak with the Debt Collective’s Astra Taylor and feature her new film for The Intercept, “Your Debt Is Someone Else’s Asset,” animated…
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Economic Update: Imagining a Different Economy
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on his recent debate with Ayn Rand Institute on capitalism vs socialism, inflation in Europe, an analysis of right vs left splitting in the US today, and…
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Amazon Workers in Alabama Get New Shot at Union After NLRB Rules Company Broke the Law in 1st Vote
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama may soon get another chance to decide whether to unionize. The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Amazon violated U.S. labor law while waging an aggressive…
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Economic Update: Chris Hedges & US Prisons
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on South Dakota leads US to become world's #2 "tax haven," pandemic's economic shock cut by very uncapitalistic means, why employers want the govt to pay workers…
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Are Manchin's Votes Against Working People Lining His Pockets?
Why is Joe Manchin leading the charge against Biden's pro-union electric vehicle tax credit? The credit would help working people in the US, but Manchin might rather help certain corporations and exploit his constituents. Biden's…
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Is Biden’s Infrastructure Bill a Triumph or a Disappointment?
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Jennifer Epps Addison, Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy President Joe Biden on Monday signed a $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill into law touting it as, “the moment America…
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Fox News' Most Dishonest Graphic Ever?
Fox News put up a graphic on the US economy that could be one of the most misleading in the network’s history. The graphic portrayed the American workforce at the “Trump peak” of December 2019…
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There needs to be an end to Deforestation
World leaders at the COP 26 climate summit have pledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030 in recognition of the crucial role forests play in absorbing carbon dioxide and slowing the warming of the…
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Did Nov 2nd Results Influence Votes on Infrastructure Bill?
Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with John Nichols, the national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine and host of the podcast, ‘Next Left.’ He is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the…
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Ideological shift from workers to stockholders
Free Speech TV speaks with Dr. Grieve Chelwa about how corporations have gone from prioritizing workers to stockholders over the years. The month of October saw wave after wave of strikes breaking out across the…
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