Updates on privatized probation, New Zealand rejects austerity, electricity cutoffs refute "recovery", declining medical insurance, neo-liberalism attacked, rich funders of fake "public interest groups". Interview with two professors (Umberto Lorenzo and Richard McIntyre) on Cuba's socialist economy changing toward worker co-ops. Economic Update is a weekly show for people who want to understand and change not only their own financial situation but also the larger economy we all depend on.