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Behind the News: Single Payer in CA, What's Wrong with the Pension System?

Jul 21, 201752 min
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Episode description

Doug interviews two guests. First, Robert Pollin, a professor at U Mass-Amherst, addresses the economics of how single payer can work in CA. Then, Michael McCarthy, author of Dismantling Solidarity, tells us the story of how we got our current private pension system, with workers' savings appropriated by Wall Street
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