WGXC-90.7 FM

Economic Update: Doing Better than Capitalism, Millennials for Revolution

Jul 31, 2018: 2pm - 3pm
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WGXC Satellite Studio

Carnegie Room, Catskill Library | Catskill, NY

Produced and hosted by Richard Wolff.

In the first half: Updates on New Zealand firm succeeds with 4 day work week; Vienna's public housing successes; Fordham adjuncts' union wins big; Burberry destroys $ millions in new clothes; precarious U.S. jobs worsen alcoholism among young; U.S. airlines raise profits by shrinking toilets. Interview on collapse of Toys-R-Us chain (causes and consequences) with worker Cheryl Claude and organizer Charles Khan. In the second half: Updates on Trump's tariffs cost Americans jobs; shifting capitalist alliances don't change the system; Irish parliament stops investing in fossil fuels; Washington state forced fast-food employers to stop rigging labor market against employees; why Germany's "dependence" on Russia is less than the U.S. dependence on China; and why China does not "steal" U.S. technology. Interview with Moumita Ahmed, co-founder of Millennials for Revolution. Produced at MNN Studios in Manhattan.