Working Life Podcast

Episode 141: It’s just basically a good thing when good, new, progressive people run in primaries against incumbents. Even if that incumbent isn’t a horrible human being and has a decent voting record—compared of course to the rest of the politicians out there. Today we get to hear from a darn good candidate, Albert Lee, who’s taking on a long-time incumbent. Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast And, guess what? Women are still paid a lot less than men—I take a look at how grocery chain Fred Meyer is ripping off women in a chat with Tom Chamberlain, president of the Oregon AFL-CIO. Support the podcast here: www.patreon.com/WorkingLifePodcast And, lastly, since the Federal Reserve Board is wrapping up its July meeting today and won’t be meeting again until September and is likely to be announcing a cut in interest rates—as I record this the official announcement has not come but the markets have already “priced in” an interest rate cut—I thought it would be useful to re-run the re