{"podcast":{"title":"Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff","slug":"economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856","podcast_index_feed_id":7137856,"rss_url":"https://richardwolffeconomicupdate.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/4/4/9/144922e4a934d1ae16c3140a3186d450/EU_Sqr_Logo_1400x1400px.png","author":"Democracy at Work","episode_count":576,"summary":"Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a weekly nationally syndicated program produced by Democracy at Work and hosted by Richard D. Wolff. The program explores complex economic issues and empowers listeners with information to analyze not only their own financial situation but the economy at large. Beyond focusing a critical eye on the economic dimensions of everyday life - wages, jobs, taxes, debts, interest rates, prices, and profits - the program also explores systemic solutions to our economy's problems including alternative ways to organize production and distribution of the goods and services we all depend on.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-05T12:17:31.009963+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856"},"episode":{"title":"Economic Update: The Economics of Unemployment Today","slug":"economic-update-the-economics-of-unemployment-today","published_at":"2026-05-27T16:25:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856/economic-update-the-economics-of-unemployment-today","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856","url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/84104/economic-update-the-economics-of-unemployment-today","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/economicupdate/Economic_Update__The_Economics_of_Unemployment_Today.mp4?dest-id=398074","summary":"This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff briefly discusses two current large strikes by workers fighting back: the British Columbia nurses in Canada and the commuter rail workers in New York (LIRR). The rest of today’s episode is an analysis of the 7.4 million Americans who are unemployed today, the causes and effects of that unemployment, the irrationality of that unemployment, and the current failed \"policies\" to deal with it.","meta_description":"This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff briefly discusses two current large strikes by workers fighting back: the British Columbia nurses in Canada…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1905,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856/episodes/economic-update-the-economics-of-unemployment-today/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856/economic-update-the-economics-of-unemployment-today.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}