Dean Baker's Economic Briefing on Jobs, Poverty, and Consumer Protection

[Better Believe It]

Dean Baker's Economic Briefing on Jobs, Poverty, and Consumer Protection
Interview on Grit TV
September 21, 2010

Poverty is a one-day event, we get a report released and we're going to talk about poverty, but every day we hear what the stock market does," says Dean Baker, GRITtv economics correspondent. The problem with that kind of coverage, Baker notes, is that "many more people will experience poverty than will strike it rich in the stock market." Millions of Americans experience poverty not as a one-day affair, but as a constant, grinding force in their lives.

Baker joins us via Skype to talk about Elizabeth Warren's sort-of-appointment, the whinging of the rich over tax increases, and Bill Clinton's comments about the recession's end, among other things.

Watch the interview at:

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/09/21-0

[chill_wind]

1. On Clinton jobs comments: "This is really pernicious."

Dean Baker, straight talk. Good clip.

K & R.

[PufPuf23]

2. Dean Baker is always worth a read or listen nt

[depakid]

4. People who have a long track record of getting it right always are

next step of course is to give such people a shot at setting public policy.

I mean, hey- doesn't America do the same with their football coaches?

[chill_wind]

3. k