Talkin Socialism: The WV working class report.

 Friday, 9 AM, Eastern  Time
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The VideoCast

The TS team** launches on Friday a topic that will be an ongoing discussion for Talkin' Socialism: The State of the West Virginia Working Class.

Thanks to Ted Boettner for recruiting Prof. Louis Martin, a labor historian from Chatham University  to assist us in in addressing West Virginia working class political organization and concerns where:

•  the median wage is 16.00 per hour -- a dollar above what the minimum should be -- and;
•  the educational attainment is ranked at the bottom, just above American Samoa and the Virgin Islands. 
• African American households, 3.6% of the population, make 40% less than white households. 
• Women make 33 % less than men.

Self reliance is held as a cultural virtue in West Virginia, although Federal payments to the state are bigger than the revenue it gets from the state. What's the "self reliant" path, if any, out of "the bottom".  How does COVID change the equation?

**John Case, JB Christensen, Carl Davidson, Scott Marshall, Randy and Tins Shannon Mike Diesel, Patience Wait, James Boyd, Doc Aldis, Ted Boettner, Gary Zuckett, and more....from  the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.