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[490] Finland’s basic income and Dean Baker on jobs

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Oil prices fell to their lowest in seven years on Monday after OPEC failed to agree to lower production targets at its Friday policy meeting. Ameera David weighs in. Then, Ameera sits down with Dean Baker – co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research – to talk about the last US jobs report, ...

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Oil prices fell to their lowest in seven years on Monday after OPEC failed to agree to lower production targets at its Friday policy meeting. Ameera David weighs in. Then, Ameera sits down with Dean Baker – co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research – to talk about the last US jobs report, the US economy and the Fed.



After the break, Bianca Facchinei takes a look at the rise in underdog political parties winning elections in Latin America and Europe. Afterwards, Ameera and RT correspondent Lindsay France discuss the rise in gun sales in the US. And in The Big Deal, Ameera and Edward Harrison discuss Finland’s dalliance with the scrapping social programs and the minimum wage in favor of a basic income.



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Dean Baker
Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He is a regular Truthout columnist and a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.

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