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Showing videos filed under: center for american progress
Heather Boushey: Fiscal Policy Not Just Numbers on the Page
April 14, 2011"We need to go back to the day where we actually do ask everyone to pay their fair share--and that includes the wealthiest among us," says Heather Boushey, Senior Economist for the Center for American Progress. She joins us today to unpack President Obama's April 13 address on fiscal policy and deficit reduction.Heather Boushey, Deborah Small, and Cutting the Future
April 13, 2011"We need to go back to the day where we actually do ask everyone to pay their fair share--and that includes the wealthiest among us," says Heather Boushey, Senior Economist for the Center for American Progress. She joins us today to unpack President Obama's April 13 address on fiscal policy and deficit reduction.Mike Papantonio, Freeing the Scott Sisters, and Snow
January 3, 2011President Obama needs to go after Republicans as aggressively as they go after him, notes Mike Papantonio, "not just for his presidency but for democracy." The new Congress gets sworn in this week, and Darrell Issa is already announcing his investigations, but Papantonio notes that Democrats still control the Senate and that they can still push back against Republican attacks.The F Word: Public Workers Getting Snowed
January 3, 2011The snow is mostly melted after a near-record storm immobilized much of New York for nearly four days last week. But before non-New Yorkers gloat -- beware -- the Big Apple's storm offers just a taste of a crop of problems that are likely to be coming your way.Zach Carter: Loopholes in Financial Regulation Bill
May 5, 2010The financial reform bill made it through the first Republican filibuster last week and is being debated and amended now on the Senate floor. Regulating Wall Street isn't easy, though, and economics journalist Zach Carter has noted that the proposed reforms are "pretty flimsy"--he uncovered a loophole that allows banks to continue to make illegal trades without punishment!Zach Carter, Net Neutrality and Too Big to Jail
May 5, 2010The financial reform bill made it through the first Republican filibuster last week and is being debated and amended now on the Senate floor. Regulating Wall Street isn't easy, though, and economics journalist Zach Carter has noted that the proposed reforms are "pretty flimsy"--he uncovered a loophole that allows banks to continue to make illegal trades without punishment!Who Gets the Mic? Burma VJ, and Michael Eric Dyson
May 14, 2009Michael Eric Dyson, Mark Karlin Editor and Publisher of BuzzFlash.com, and Farai Chideya author of Kiss the Sky on the news coverage of the past week. This weeks Got Docs is Burma VJ. And we speak to Michael Eric Dyson about his new book.Obama's First 100 Days, A Memoir of Iran, and the Unemployment Crisis
April 29, 2009Walter Mosley, Hendrik Hertzberg and others on Obama's first 100 days. Camelia Entekhabifard discusses her new memoir, Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Truth. And how will rising unemployment impact American society? Heather Boushey of the Center for American Progress on the social dimensions of the financial crisis.Rethinking Afghanistan: Is Obama's Strategy a Dead End?
April 7, 2009The Obama administration has laid out its strategy for stabilizing and rebuilding Afghanistan: sending an additional 21,000 troops, strengthening the army and police forces, and establishing what Obama calls clear metrics for evaluating progress. Not everyone agrees. Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films says it is a flawed approach and is calling for a US policy that does not rely on military force.Rethinking Afghanistan, Remembering Rwanda, and Rev. James Lawson
April 6, 2009The future of the US role in Afghanistan is the centerpiece of Barack Obama's foreign policy. But is it the right strategy? Robert Greenwald, Sean Duggan and others on the commitment of additional troops. 15 years after the Rwandan genocide, we speak to survivors. And footage from last weekend's protest on Wall Street.
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