This week’s Economic Update focuses on 3 major teachers unions struggling with LA Unified School District, the rising US electricity costs and the corrupted utility commissions that run the power utilities, as well as looking at from 1990 to 2025 there was extreme US redistribution of wealth from lower 99% to richest 1%. Interview with public health Prof. Stephen Bezruchka on the economic and political roots of widespread sickness in the US as analyzed in his new book, Born Sick in the USA: Improving the Health of a Nation.
Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, locally and globally. The program explores alternative ways to organize, markets, and government policies.