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Wall Street Recovery, Main Street Inequality
February 2, 2010We've all seen the headlines about record bonuses on Wall Street just a year after record bailouts with taxpayer dollars. And we all know that the rest of the country is hardly feeling the recovery. But even right here in New York City, recovery hasn't yet trickled down, and inequality is just getting worse.Urban Inequality, Rev. James Forbes, and Citizens United
February 1, 2010We've all seen the headlines about record bonuses on Wall Street just a year after record bailouts with taxpayer dollars. And we all know that the rest of the country is hardly feeling the recovery. But even right here in New York City, recovery hasn't yet trickled down, and inequality is just getting worse.Not Too Late to Stimulate Economy Equitably
January 6, 2010The House of Representatives passed the the Jobs for Main Street Act on December 16, right before winter break. With the Senate poised to take it up and the country still hurting from the recession despite Wall Street's record profits, we ask a panel of experts what Congress and the administration need to do to ensure that stimulus funds get spent on the people who need them most.Stimulus Spending, Yemen, and Nancy Giles
January 5, 2010The House of Representatives passed the the Jobs for Main Street Act on December 16, right before winter break. With the Senate poised to take it up and the country still hurting from the recession despite Wall Street's record profits, we ask a panel of experts what Congress and the administration need to do to ensure that stimulus funds get spent on the people who need them most.Year in Review: What EFCA is Up Against
December 29, 2009Discussion of the Employee Free Choice Act, like most other major reforms, has stalled while Congress is locked in a battle over health care reform. In June, we held a roundtable on the legislation and the likelihood of getting labor law reform through a technically-Democratic Congress.Rebooting the System: David Swanson & Mark Winston Griffith
December 2, 2009Mark Winston Griffith, on leave from the Drum Major Institute and former candidate for New York City Council, joins David Swanson, author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union and founder of AfterDowningStreet, and Laura to talk about the way nothing seems to change in politics.Rebooting the System, Jay Rosen, and UC Protests
December 1, 2009President Obama is about to announce a troop escalation in Afghanistan. Though it's consistent with his campaign promises, public opinion has shifted and now, according to most polls, a majority of the American people oppose the war. Politics as usual? Is he stuck?Is there a way around the machine to create a true politics of the people?What EFCA Is Up Against
June 30, 2009Opposition to union organizing within the workplace has become more intense and punitive in recent years making it incredibly difficult and risky for workers to unionize. As unemployment continues to rise and workers struggle for a bit of parity, will the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) pass? Kate Bronfenbrenner of Cornell's Labor Education Research in a new report, No Holds Barred:What EFCA is Up Against, Angel Warner on Rite Aid Workers' Fight for Unionization, and Greg Grandin's Fordlandia
June 29, 2009On tonight's show, how hard is it to form a union in the United States? Kate Bronfenbrenner and others on the intensification of employer opposition to organizing and the Employee Free Choice Act. Greg Grandin on US imperial ambitions in Latin America and his new book Fordlandia. Brave New Films on Burger King's effort to crush unions and EFCA.Chaos and the Mortgage Crisis
May 12, 2009Mortgage madness. Millions of Americans still face foreclosure. But there’s no guarantee that the Mortgage Reform and Anti-predatory Lending act will make it through the senate. In fact, every proposal put forward thus far has hardly forced industry's hand. Writing in the Nation magazine, Kai Wright says that Obama’s plan doesn’t address the larger question:
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