Episodes
Tuesday Dec 30, 2014
Signs of Deepening Inequality - 12.28.14
Tuesday Dec 30, 2014
Tuesday Dec 30, 2014
Updates on successful Oregon teaching assistants' strike, evicting the homeless, law limits unpaid internships to 4 weeks, and universities become businesses. Response to our audiences on the economics of war and military in US - "the elephant in the economy" - and on political corruption in the new budget. Major discussion of the sharp decline in most Americans' wealth since 2007 (no recovery there either) coupled with widening wealth gaps between whites and both African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans.
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