Episode 177: Is Your Chicken Worth A Worker’s Life?; Stimulus Done The Right Way
Episode 177: The dinner plates of millions of people are soon going to be an interesting place to focus the mind on the balance between the desire to fill bellies with protein—poultry and pork, mainly—versus the worthiness of peoples’ lives, specifically the lives of the workers who process the chickens and hogs in plants across the country. Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast To put it bluntly, workers are getting sick and dying from COVID-19 just so millions of people can chow down some meat product at dinner. And those products may be harder to find because the virus is raging through food processing plants nationwide and fraying the supply chain from factory to plate. To get an on-the-ground report about the epidemic, I’m joined by Randy Hadley, the president of the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union’s Midsouth Council who has been working in the industry for over four decades. Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast Since today, April 15th, is normally tax deadline day, it’s a good time to look across the spectrum at how stimulus money—tax money—has been flowing, or should flow, and who should benefit. People and state governments, for example, need a lot more economic support, while CEOs and corporations should go to the end of the line, or, at least, every dollar should invested in a workplace should go towards keeping a worker on the job. And maybe there’s a silver lining down the road—a renewed belief that an effective, activist, well-funded government is a good thing. To unwind all this, I chat with Amy Hanauer, the executive director of the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy. Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast -- Jonathan Tasini Follow me on Twitter @jonathantasini Sign up for The Working Life Podcast at: www.workinglife.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.tasini.3
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