Lower Retirement Age to Free Up Jobs for the Young
With 11 million jobs missing from the American economy, “increasing the retirement age under Social Security is exactly the wrong way to go,” says economist James K. Galbraith, of the University of Texas, at Austin. “It would simply force older workers, including many unemployed workers, into a futile competition for available jobs.” Galbraith predicts President Obama’s deficit reduction commission will not produce a consensus on Social Security when its recommendations are released, next month, “in which case the best thing would be for it simply to die.”
The Democratic Debacle
Cynthia McKinney, Margaret Kimberley, Bill Quigley, Kevin Alexander Gray, and Antony Monteiro examine the cause and consequences of last week’s Republican electoral sweep.
Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 4:00pm ET on PRN. Length: One hour.
In this week’s segment, we hear about the liberation struggle in the southern African nation of Swaziland, where an imperialist-backed monarchy holds political prisoners and engages in other…
Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a Los Angeles-based journalist and host of RootWork, which can also be seen on Black Liberation Media’s YouTube channel. She joins us to discuss the recent protests in…
Our guests are Titus Vilakati of the Break the Chains Campaign, which calls for the release of political prisoners in the southern African nation of Swaziland and the end of human rights abuses…
If Trump asks congress for approval to wage a war on Iran, he will probably get it.
“So they go forward with the old plan, the only one they've got. Attack Iran.”
