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1) Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, the convening member of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition, discusses how the Republican Study Committee's 2024 budget proposal would cut Social Security benefits, and his group's effort to educate the public on this proposal and other efforts to strengthen Social Security into the future.

2) Excerpt of Independent Vermont Senator, and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' January 17th address from the U.S. Capitol on "The State of the Working Class in America." In the speech Sen. Sanders stated, "Over 60% of American workers are living paycheck to paycheck, 85 million are uninsured or underinsured, nearly 600,000 are homeless and millions are unable to afford housing, childcare or higher education."

3) Richard Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York. Professor Wolff, author of several books including, "Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism," and host of the weekly syndicated radio program Economic Update, discusses the issues covered in his recent article, "The World Economy is Changing; the People Know But Their Leaders Don't."

4) Robert Greene II, Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University and Senior Editor, Black Perspectives, discusses the importance of the Juneteenth holiday, with a focus on the issues covered in his 2022 Nation magazine piece, "Keeping Juneteenth Radical."

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