Exacerbated by the pandemic. Individuals, especially in that situation, they depend on facetoface contact with someone in Social Security or at least someone they can talk to. And i dont know if youve ever tried to call the 800 number, but if you have, youre going to be on hold for a very long time. I think having more resources as you just pointed out, as shaun mentioned would go a long way. I have made recommendations that Social Security make an effort to partner with some nonprofits in the area to help in advising those who want to claim ssi, how to navigate the system and i think thats worth exploring. I hope Social Security will take that up as well. Congressman mr. Ferguson is recognized. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for your leadership. I think we all agree the worse thing that any of us could do is not to act on this issue. If you want to see real harm done to americans, lets not do anything and see what happens. I would like to commend both of you for your leadership in
Elderly people the right to end their lives even if they are not suffering from any medical condition. And the u. S. Accuses china of sponsoring hackers to spy on American Companies working on a vaccine for covert 1000. Those are your headlines at this hour now a look at the legal scene on americas lawyer with mike. And tony on this is americas war your last week in New York Times opinion columnist a very wise resigned from the paper and accused him of suffering from a severe case of being too politically correct she also alleged that employees of the paper were harassing her some are celebrating wises a hero others are expressing serious skepticism about a plane were going to dive into that topic and see what makes sense also in over a dozen lawsuits are merging against education secretary betsy devos again for helping her nonprofit universities prey on students pocketbooks and then later in the show theres been a Fatal Shooting targeting the family of a district judge overseeing the
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To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Richard Wolffe in new york he is a Professor Emeritus of economics at the university of massachusetts amherst as well as the author of the recent books understanding socialism and understanding marxism and in chicago or which he has a chief marketing strategist bubba trading all right gentleman rules in effect that means you can jump in time while i was appreciate todd let me go to you as you just heard in my introduction you know that we have an ongoing deep recession i think as of this morning the i. M. F. Came out with their global projections and a contraction of about 5 percent globally the u. S. Doesnt do much better the industrialized world is more or less in the same position but at the same time as i said you know we how the wealthiest among us. Keeping in enormous revenues and profits here and the unemployment depending on who you want to look at it from 13 maybe 17 percent and thats not going to go away any time soon so whats re