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Back to SearchEconomic Update: Capitalism Provokes Workers
Season 7 Episode 18
Updates on University of California workers' strikes, privatizing fire departments, big money buys academia, fast-food workers unionize, the capitali…
8 years ago
Economic Update: Socialism: Past, Present, Future
Updates on critique of Uber and gig economy; WI Sen Johnson endorses inequality; Norway to pay male and female athletes same; corporations buy back t…
8 years ago
Economic Update: Employees vs Employers, Endless Tensions
Season 7 Episode 17
Updates on German workers who elect almost half of corporate boards of directors, major US corporations with negative tax rates, Kentucky governor ma…
8 years, 1 month ago
Economic Update: Why people struggle with the system
Season 7 Episode 16
Updates on teachers' strikes, capitalism abuses facebook, colleges reward privilege and reproduce it, Shell Oil knew about fossil fuels and global wa…
8 years, 1 month ago
Economic Update: Distorting Economic Truths
Season 7 Episode 15
Updates on labor strikes at Disney, home sales and prices drop sharply, Nestle profits by privatizing water, hurting the post office profits UPS and …
8 years, 1 month ago
Economic Update: Winds of System Change
Season 7 Episode 14
Updates on big French strikes protect workers' gains; rising sub-prime loans, students pay more as states do less for public tuition costs; West Virg…
8 years, 1 month ago
Economic Update: Resistance Economics
Season 7 Episode 13
Updates on NRA economics, anti-Chinese tariffs, BMW emissions cheating, Brexit's lesson, IBM dumps older workers, Tennessee teachers fight and win, C…
8 years, 2 months ago
Economic Update: System Broken
Season 7 Episode 12
Updates on doctors prescribing fentanyl for pay, why deficits are not the issue, how tobacco companies dont solve the cigarette problem, big corps ba…
8 years, 2 months ago
Economic Update: Capitalism breeds inequality
Season 7 Episode 11
Updates on how globalization worsened inequality, 1980-2016, workers strike YMCA, UK universities and Oklahoma schools, Quebec doctors reject pay in…
8 years, 2 months ago
Economic Update: Winds of Economic Change
Season 7 Episode 10
West Virginia teachers strike, Trump tariffs, Germany makes public transport free, UK living standards crash 2005-2015, US rich schools get richer, d…
8 years, 2 months ago