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    Heather McGhee: Racism Costs Everyone

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    Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How we can Prosper Together. She...
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    Stimulus Checks Every Month?

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    The Compton Pledge is paying 800 families up to $600 per month to give them a leg up. So far, unemployment is down 50% and life is looking up for recipients and...
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    You Can’t Deal with Capitalism Unless You Deal With Patriarchy

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    Achieving social justice is going to take much more than reforming our criminal justice system. Valuing all lives equally is going to require...
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    The Pandemic Economy

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    About The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’t create the challenges we...
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    The Economics of Abolition

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    About “Defund the police” became a rallying cry in the summer of 2020 as demonstrators flooded streets across the United States to demand an end to police brutality in...
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    Whose Economy is it?

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    About What is a city’s economy for? New York City’s economy has been very good at piling up private wealth and building tall buildings but it’s done less well,...
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    Election 2020

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    About The US holds a momentous election amid a global pandemic, an economic meltdown and one of the most polarizing presidencies in generations. In this episode, recorded just hours...
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    Making Buffalo Our City

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    About Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in the US...
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    Cooperation and Community Wealth Building

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    About What can organizations accomplish when they work together? A lot, it turns out. That's the lesson that Kay Johnson, director of The Larder in Preston, UK, shares in...
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    Building A Democratic Economy

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    About How does an economy emerge from recession? Historically, cities hard hit by deindustrialization have strived to attract big employers from elsewhere by offering incentives and tax breaks. But...
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