#990 Prisoners for profit (Prison-Industrial Complex)
Air date: 2-12-16
Today we look at the intersection of market capitalism and our prison system where the private prison industry makes billions and lobbies for ever harsher punishments to continually grow our prison population
Read more#989 Investments in education should not earn cash profits
Air date: 2-9-16
Today we look at the intersection of our educational system and the detrimental influence that money, austerity policies and the profit motive have on the education that our kids have access to
Read more#988 When climate science meets faith-based economics
Air date: 2-5-16
Today we look at the intersection of the climate crisis with our current economic system including how monopolies, trade deals, market failures and the concept of “externalities” all work together to make climate change worse
Read more#987 The double helix of racial and economic inequality
Air date: 2-2-16
Today we look at the intersection and roots of systemic racism and institutional poverty in America and the ways in which each supports and bolsters the other
Read more#986 The trouble with extreme wealth inequality (Economics)
Air date: 1-29-16
Today we look at the case against extreme wealth inequality and not just from an economic justice perspective. Extreme wealth inequality leads to more social ills and destabilization than you probably ever guessed
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