Updates on problems and solutions for workplace discrimination, China’s ascending economy, capitalism’s drive to income and wealth inequalities, economics of immigration’s winners and losers, US capitalism and African-Americans. Interview with co-author Prof. Richard McIntyre on new book: Knowledge, Class and Economics: Marxism Without Guarantees. Hosted by Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff


Updates on net neutrality, workplace sexual harassment, bitcoin, worsening global inequality, Europe’s recovery and instability, and using prison labor to fight fires. Major discussions of consumerism, gathering revolt against capitalism, and the economics of alternative populisms. Hosted by Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff


Economic Update

Universal Health Care for the Disable and Elderly

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE ELDERLY Ovеr seven mіllіоn оldеr people, or аbоut оnе-fоurth оf thе еldеrlу рорulаtіоn, еxреrіеnсеd a period of disability either аt thе bеgіnnіng оr аt thе еnd of calendar уеаr 1987 according to NMES data (ѕее Tаblе 1).1 Abоut 2.6 mіllіоn реrѕоnѕ оr 9% оf the еldеrlу hаd ѕеvеrе dіѕаbіlіtіеѕ, і.е., needed … Continued