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Amanda Hoffman
· August 16, 2019 8:00 PM
Air Date: 8–16-2019
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Today we take a look at just a few of the ways that it is in the nature of corporate media to ruin political discourse by dismissing progressive perspectives and preferring hype and controversy over substance
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· May 24, 2019 8:00 PM
Air Date: 5–24-2019
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Today we take a look at the much-maligned, rarely-understood field of economic and social study known as Marxism.
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· April 09, 2019 8:00 PM
Air Date: 4–9-2019
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Today we take a look at the overwhelming benefits to society of labor, health and safety regulations and how they only people who don't come out ahead are those who have to pay for them
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Air Date: 2–15-2019
Today we take a look at recent teachers union strike in the Los Angeles school district and see it as another event in an emerging pattern of progressive uprisings that have been stirring for the last decade, fighting back against the status quo, the neoliberal instinct to privatize everything for the ultimate benefit of billionaires.
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Air Date: 10–9-2018
Today we take a look at the monopolistic practices of Amazon with a focus on their effects on labor and wages in America
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· September 21, 2018 6:00 AM
Air Date: 9–21-2018
Today we take a look at the economics, sexism and racism embedded in the restaurant industry, largely due to the practice of tipping.
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· September 07, 2018 6:00 AM
Air Date: 9–7-2018
Today we take a look at several of the ways that average people benefit from collective action including unionization, class action lawsuits and politically attuned investing of pooled pension funds. Plus, making the obvious case for why the Democratic Party needs to get wholeheartedly on board with policies that unwaveringly support working people and empower collectivism.
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Air Date: 5–4-2018
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Today we take a look at the falling dominoes of rebellion and demands for justice in the form of teachers strikes as they go from one educationally decimated red state to the next
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· March 16, 2018 6:00 PM
Air Date: 3–16-2018
Today we take a look at the catastrophic point where cutting taxes, racism, capitalism, immigration policy and our punitive-rather-than-rehabilitative criminal justice system all meet
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Air Date: 1–2-2018
Today we take a look at a few different visions of what the future holds for our labor market and some policies we should be putting in place to set the scene for the coming evolution of work
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