EP4: Latinos in Kansas City – Dr. King’s thoughts on the economy – Student debt crisis

In this episode’s Econ 101, what thoughts did Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. offer on the impact of the economy on working people? Sirisha and Taki discuss the connections between the political economy of racism, poverty and imperialism found in Dr. King’s intellectual legacy. In the D&S Debrief segment, Chris Sturr interviews Nick French about student debt. Finally, in our special feature we converse with Prof. Clara
Irazabal-Zurita about the Latino community in Kansas City. How has the community responded to the social structures of accumulation or SSA (the historically contingent changes in global capitalism)?

0.Show introduction by Taki and Sirisha: 38s
1. Econ 101 by Taki and Sirisha – Dr. King’s legacy on economic
responses: 3:15
2. D&S Debrief by Chris Sturr (co-editor of Dollars and Sense Magazine)
in conversation with Nick French (Asst. editor of Jacobin magazine) on
student debt: 19:58
3. Feature Conversation with Prof. Clara Irazabal-Zurita, Prof of Urban
Planning at University of Maryland, College Park: 30:06

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