Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff20 Sep 2023

Rebuilding Families Amidst A Crumbling Economy

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Updates include how US labor rediscovers the general strike as WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes merged in LA and allied with hotel workers,' teamsters', and teachers unions; drug-producing firms' profiteering cause shortages of needed medications; new research proves affirmative action for "legacy" students from rich, white families at Harvard, Yale and other elite schools, US domestic food supply chain includes gross examples of forced labor. Part 2 of an interview with Dr Harriet Fraad on new forms of family emerging as working class households react to collapsing traditional households. The family-economy link is a social problem not merely a personal problem.

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