WGXC-90.7 FM

Economic Update: Capitalism’s Failures & Contradictions

Aug 21, 2018: 2pm - 3pm
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WGXC Satellite Studio

Carnegie Room, Catskill Library | Catskill, NY

Produced and hosted by Richard Wolff.

Part 1: "Hiding Capitalism's Failures" with updates on Europe's higher labor force participation, Cuomo campaign fakes "small donations", U.S. restaurants decline as pinched incomes switch to food delivery, "market" housing system causes homelessness, education fails to overcome black-white wealth gap. Interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad on causes and consequences of U.S. declining fertility rate. Part 2: "Capitalism - Changed by its Contradictions" with updates on poverty in California, childhood obesity in U.S., economic fallout from (real meaning of) Trump steel tariff. Prof. Wolff responds to questions by explaining how U.S. politics has sustained U.S. capitalism and what the politics of change will require. Produced at MNN Studios in Manhattan.