#1418 The morality test of the COVID age (Vaccine Distribution)
Air Date: 5–22-2021
Today we take a look at the global struggle to acquire and distribute sufficient doses of vaccine in an effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. It is not going as well as one might hope.
Read more#1368 Our Essential, Yet Disposable, Labor
Air Date: 9–18-2020
Today we take a look at some of the dynamics at play for some of the most vulnerable people in America who are doing much of the most essential work under the most precarious circumstances
Read more#1366 The Great Unhousing of America
Air Date: 9–11-2020
Today we take a look at the easily predictable, yet growing, eviction crisis in America that is entirely thanks to a political and economic system that is structurally incapable of functioning for the benefit of people over profit.
Read more#1348 Not the Great Equalizer, the Amplifier of Disparity (Coronavirus)
Air Date: 4–21-2020
Today we take a look at the ways that COVID-19 are impacting the most vulnerable communities the worst and how our legacy of discrimination is being put on full display.
Read more#1346 Pandemic Economics and the Reverse Robin Hood Bailout
Air Date: 4–4-2020
Today we take a look at many of the economic angles of the COVID-19 pandemic including the role of the shock doctrine in the wake of the coronavirus, calls for a socially just economic recovery, calls for the elderly to be turned into Soylent Green and the biggest Reverse Robin Hood bailout of all time.
Read more#1338 Budgets are Moral Documents, Trump Budgets are Immoral
Air Date: 2–22-2020
Today we take a look at Trump's recently-proposed budget and rule changes targeting the most vulnerable recipients of Social Security benefits. The budget has no chance of passing as it is because, thankfully, a Democratically-controlled House of Representatives will not allow it. However, it is still very valuable to understand what kind of budget and rules Trump and the GOP would pass if they were in complete power.
Read more#1215 Demonizing welfare to divide and conquer
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#1212 Feudalism with Dinner (Our Culture of Tipping)
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