Updates focus on (1) President Obama's jobs program and (2) the deepening crisis of European banks and indebted countries. In-depth discussion on the extent, causes and social effects of poverty in the US following on last week's report from the US Census Bureau. Guests Willie Baptist of the Poverty Initiative and Prof.

Updates focus on (1) the food stamp program, (2) giving corporations' names to football stadiums, (3) new supports for prison reform, and (4) analyzing the federal government's tax revenues. In-depth analysis focuses on how the world's three alternative economic theories - neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian - understand economics and economic crises differently, with special emphasis on the Marxian as it is least understood.

This program focuses first on newly released information about major banks subsidized by the Federal Reserve since the 2008 crash; it shows the hitherto secret largesse and exceptional terms given the banks for their "recovery." Updates also concern tax cuts for corporations and the rich and US multinationals investing overseas rather than in US. We interview Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director of New York City's Taxi Workers Alliance, a new, unusual and successful labor organization that now represents 15,000 of the city's 25,000 active taxi drivers.

On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis.We will focus on wages, jobs, taxes, and debts - and on interest rates, prices, and profits. We aim to explain why certain economic changes are happening and other changes get postponed or blocked and we will explore alternative ways to organize enterprises, markets, and government policies.