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  • Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast / April 25, 2018

    Episode 79: Arizona Teachers Are Lit!; Privatization Is A Bust; Lowe’s Poisons People

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  • Audio, Current Events, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics / April 18, 2018

    Episode 78: Workers Crush It So Jet Blue Goes Union; Murder in Honduras and Guatemala; The Fed; Tax Truths

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  • Audio, Current Events, Economy, Podcast, Politics / April 11, 2018

    Episode 77: The Man Who Will Beat Ted Cruz; A Teacher Can’t Pay For Food; GOP Tax Fraud

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  • Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics / April 4, 2018

    Episode 76: Oklahoma Uprising, Secrets of the NY Fed, Colorado Progressive On the March

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  • Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics / March 28, 2018

    Episode 75: Stealing Tips, Not! Big Airport Wage Hike, Yes! Texas Going Blue in 32nd?

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Episode 79: Arizona Teachers Are Lit!; Privatization Is A Bust; Lowe’s Poisons People

In Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast by Jonathan TasiniApril 25, 20180 Comments

The uprising is hitting Arizona. Tomorrow, thousands of teachers will flood the state capitol to demand—like their brethren in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Colorado—fair wages. I talk with the …

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Episode 78: Workers Crush It So Jet Blue Goes Union; Murder in Honduras and Guatemala; The Fed; Tax Truths

In Audio, Current Events, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics by Jonathan TasiniApril 18, 20180 Comments

You may remember that last month I did a curtain-raiser on the Jet Blue flight attendants’ union organizing campaign vote (Episode 74). Yesterday, the vote came in—and the workers crushed …

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Episode 77: The Man Who Will Beat Ted Cruz; A Teacher Can’t Pay For Food; GOP Tax Fraud

In Audio, Current Events, Economy, Podcast, Politics by Jonathan TasiniApril 11, 20180 Comments

Beto. He’s the guy who will send Ted Cruz into retirement.  I talk with Beto O’Rourke while he’s out driving on the campaign trail in Texas. Have you tried to …

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Episode 76: Oklahoma Uprising, Secrets of the NY Fed, Colorado Progressive On the March

In Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics by Jonathan TasiniApril 4, 20180 Comments

Now it’s the turn of teachers in Oklahoma to rise up. I chat with Alicia Priest, the president of the Oklahoma Education Association, and Jennifer Thornton, a third-grade teacher in Tulsa, after …

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Episode 75: Stealing Tips, Not! Big Airport Wage Hike, Yes! Texas Going Blue in 32nd?

In Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics by Jonathan TasiniMarch 28, 20180 Comments

  The gall of greedy employers never seems to end, right? This time it shows up in the restaurant biz where the other NRA—the National Restaurant Association–was trying to get …

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Episode 74: Is Betsy Devos Really This Dumb? Jet Blue Gonna Go Union

In Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics by Jonathan TasiniMarch 21, 20180 Comments

Betsy Devos has already shown herself to be entirely unqualified to be running the Department of Education. I add on to what we already know with a look at how …

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Episode 73: West Virginia Teachers Walk The Line; Climate Change Gets Real in Washington State; Hawaii Progressive Runs

In Audio, Current Events, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics by Jonathan TasiniMarch 14, 20180 Comments

Nine days striking isn’t the longest walk-out you will see. But, when you do that in defiance of the law, whoa, now that’s showing some spine. I kick off the …

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Episode 71: Scurrying About–The Cockroaches In The Axis of Bigots-Supreme Court Justices-Greedy Billionaires

In Audio, Current Events, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics by Jonathan TasiniFebruary 28, 20180 Comments

The attacks against public sector unions—an attack on all working people—reached their legal pinnacle Monday when the Supreme Court heard the case, Janus v. AFSCME. But, something else is exposed …

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Episode 70: Forget ISIS. Amazon Is The (Economic) Terrorist To Fear

In Audio, Economy, Podcast, Politics by Jonathan TasiniFebruary 21, 20180 Comments

ISIS poses virtually no threat to you in your home. The same can’t be said for Amazon. Amazon really is an economic terrorist. That’s what I spend most of the …

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Episode 68: Exposing The Political Termites At Work; Mental Clinicians Beat Back Kaiser

In Audio, Current Events, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics by Jonathan TasiniFebruary 7, 20180 Comments

I love this description of the people burrowing deep inside government agencies to screw the people: political termites. And it comes courtesy of investigative journalist David Cay Johnston who returns …

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