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Weekends: Inflation, Labor Upsurge, and Neoliberalism's Discontents w/ Richard Wolff

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We Have Depressions, We Have Public Health Disasters

Over the last two years, more than 80 million americans were unemployed for some period of time. We have a literature full of showing that unemployment destabilizes people's physical health,. mental health and relations to their children. What we've never had is the coming together at the same time in our country of one of the worst depressions we've ever seen. And what we have just done wilt build back better. It's begun with something that wasn't adequate and then ripped it to shreds, because we can't move.We're a society that's frozen in its divisions, in its mentality. The enormity of the economic changes and the political changes we are actually facing seems to

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