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Showing videos filed under: food stamps
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Attack on Ahmed Sharif, and New Voters
September 1, 2010President Obama might have declared the combat mission over in Iraq this week, but thousands of troops and contractors remain behind in that country and troops are still moving into Afghanistan. In his speech, Obama struck a note of conciliation with President Bush, and echoed a refrain that's grown familiar now: move forward, don't look back. But Bill Fletcher, Jr. notes that Iraq wasn't a case of a war gone bad with good intentions--it was begun illegally, and handled wrong from the start.The F Word: Fight Tea Party Voters With Fresh Voters
September 1, 2010Candidates have been in their districts, making nice to likely mid-term voters. They're more scarce than general election voters, and typically a more polarized bunch. What if there were more of them and more low-income people, particularly women, were in the mix?The F Word: Today's Secrets Are In Plain Sight
March 4, 2010Daniel Ellsberg was here on the show last week and he left me thinking about secrecy. Ellsberg, of course, was the man who released the top secret Pentagon Papers - a classified report on secret decision making around the wars in Cambodia and Vietnam. He got me wondering -- What are the Pentagon Papers of today?Financial Reform, Animal Factory, and Student Debt
March 3, 2010Yesterday, we noted that the fangs seem to have been pulled out of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and financial reform seems to be quietly fading from the agenda. But our friends at the Roosevelt Institute are in the middle of a groundbreaking conference on market reform, and we asked a few of their guests to join us in studio.Why Would You Sell Your Food Stamps?
February 23, 2010In a recent article for ColorLines, Seth Wessler reported on one woman's struggle to support her family when cash benefits from the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program--the one that replaced welfare under Bill Clinton's 1996 welfare reform--run out. "Selling Food Stamps For Kids' Shoes" was the title of the article, and it creates a stark picture of the impossible choices more and more families are forced to make in the continuing recession.Food Stamps, Imran Malik and CPAC
February 22, 2010In a recent article for ColorLines, Seth Wessler reported on one woman's struggle to support her family when cash benefits from the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program--the one that replaced welfare under Bill Clinton's 1996 welfare reform--run out. "Selling Food Stamps For Kids' Shoes" was the title of the article, and it creates a stark picture of the impossible choices more and more families are forced to make in the continuing recession.Battle in Seattle, Copenhagen Protests, and World AIDS Day
November 30, 2009It's 2009, and the biggest front of global action is on climate change. The US has moved from the flat denials of the Bush era to an acceptance of the problem, but solutions still elude us. As always, the people will have to lead.The F Word: Not Just Jobs Needed Now
November 30, 2009It's not just jobs the nation needs, it's jobs with justice -- the sort government can create, not by thinking petty and small, but thinking big. The best thing that could happen at the president's summit with CEOs is for him to declare a massive government jobs program at genuinely living wages, and for him to demand that private employers shape up.Biofuel and the World Food Crisis
July 11, 2008It's not a food crisis, it's a food price crisis - and solutions exist. But sustainable agriculture requires sustainable economic policies; Yifat Susskind of MADRE, Anna Lappe of the Small Planet Institute, Steven Levy of the National Biodiesel Board and Sprague Energy, and Joel Berg, a former food security expert at the USDA, lay out the complicated picture. The discussion here is rich. It's amazing what can happen when the conversation's not underwritten by Archer Daniels Midland, the ubiquitous agri-business media sponsor.
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