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Inflation, jobs, and supply chain woes with economist Dean Baker; Where is the defund movement now?; Plus another look at the racial discrimination of the real estate industry

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An Avis car rental office in 2007. Rental car prices have soared this year in part due to a global shortage in computer chips. Image by Jeffrey Beall is licensed under CC 2.0

On today’s show:

0:08 – Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) senior economist at the Center for Economic Policy and Research joins us to discuss the latest national inflation figures, last week’s jobs report, and supply chain woes.

0:34 – DeAngelo Mack (@macknificent8), Director of State Policy at Public Health Advocates and Alex Vitale (@avitale) professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College join us to discuss the state of nationwide police abolition legislations following California’s passage of the C.R.I.S.E.S Act (AB 118).

1:08 – We spend the second hour with Gene Slater, author of Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America.