Working Life

The super-wealthy keep getting richer and, while they are human beings, they just don’t seem to care how many people die or go hungry while billionaires party on. That’s the only conclusion you can come to after reading a new stunning report about global wealth and inequality out from Oxfam–and I delve into the report […]

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Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, just after he had marched on behalf of striking sanitation workers. Today, racism is still a defining characteristic of the economic system, which is what I and Janelle Jones of the Economic Policy Institute discuss in our lead segment. I, then, visit with two progressive Congressional […]

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I continue my on-going chats with solid progressive candidates all across the country. I chat with Abdul El-Sayed, who is vying in Michigan to be the first Muslim-American elected as governor in the history of the country. And from south-eastern Indiana, Dan Canon tells me why he jumped into a congressional race despite being, in […]

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Republicans tried all sorts of tricks in their tax scam bill to target taxpayers in Democratic states, including messing with the deduction for local and state income and property taxes…except we’re smarter than they are—at least Dean Baker is. As I find out in my chat with him, Dean has found a way to keep […]

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It’s been 13 years since Ray Gonzalez was killed in an explosion at a British Petroleum facility in Texas. I have a searing conversation with his daughter, Katherine, who keeps his memory alive by campaigning for safety and health in the workplace. Out in California, Colonel Doug Applegate is taking another shot at unseating the […]

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I’ll spend today reminding people that the Tax Scam must be the focus. This is what will matter to millions of Americans for a generation and more to come, not the blip about Flynn (who will end up being barely a footnote in history). So…10 handy tips/reminders: 1. Underscore the madness of the bill process—Republicans […]

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Leading off, I had a thought about how we should think about the estate tax—billionaires owe us that dough! Keeping up the podcast’s regular reporting on real people running for office, longtime union organizer and first-time candidate Tanya Boone stops by to talk with me about her race for a Congressional seat in New York. […]

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Sure, there were shenanigans in the 2016 Democratic primary. But, we need to understand what is tough politics versus what is rotten in the system. I unwind this a bit in an Election Rigging 101 (and, hey, nice election results last night). I also dig into the battle for labor rights in South Korea with […]

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Just about every piece of clothing you put on is made with blood, sweat and tears of exploited labor. I revisit the April 2013 murder of 1,138 garment workers in Bangladesh with my two guests, two women global labor leaders: Christy Hoffman, the deputy secretary of the 20-million member UNI and Nazma Akter, who began working […]

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  We start this week’s podcast by remembering Paul Wellstone, the progressive firebrand who died exactly 15 years ago in a small plane crash while campaigning for re-election. I, then, bring us the voice of Bruce Franks, a powerful leader of the Black Lives Matter movement in St. Louis and across the nation. I also sit […]

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