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Dean Baker: Budget Cuts are the Real Job-Killers
February 17, 2011"People who want to see the budget cut are people who are advocating throwing people out of work, it's that simple," says Dean Baker of the pressure from conservatives on Obama's budget--pressure, it appears, that Obama is conceding to as he brags that discretionary spending will be the lowest since Eisenhower's administration.Dean Baker, Laila El-Haddad & Remi Kanazi, Wisconsin, and the Budget
February 16, 2011"People who want to see the budget cut are people who are advocating throwing people out of work, it's that simple," says Dean Baker of the pressure from conservatives on Obama's budget--pressure, it appears, that Obama is conceding to as he brags that discretionary spending will be the lowest since Eisenhower's administration.The F Word: Obama Should Be Ashamed of His Budget
February 16, 2011“This freeze would cut the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade, bringing this kind of spending -- domestic discretionary spending -- to its lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was President. Let me repeat that...."Max Rameau and Vince Warren: Are Housing Rights the New Human Rights?
May 20, 2010Are housing rights the new civil rights? Even though critics claim that housing shortages are crosses to bear, one can’t solve foreclosures without first investigating problems behind public housing and homelessness.David Kirby, Public Housing, and the Parties in Primaries
May 19, 2010Big business has been meddling with the Gulf Coast long before BP. Industrial runoffs from factory farms have invaded the gulf and fostering the growth of algae producing lifeless or “dead” zones of the water. Currently, there are six million public housing units for nine million people in need of public housing. Right to the City presents, We Call These Projects Homes, interviewing Anne Washington of Community Voices Heard about the need to empower public housing communities to express this need to the government. Are housing rights the new civil rights? Even though critics claim that housing shortages are crosses to bear, one can’t solve foreclosures without first investigating problems behind public housing and homelessness.Canvassing K Street
May 19, 2010After abysmal coverage of the massive labor protests against the Washington Lobbyist stronghold on K Street one of the protestors tweeted, “maybe you have to serve tea to get noticed.”Ed Ott: Where Does the Power Lie?
May 18, 2010Even though today is the most important primary election day of the year, a slough labor protestors has invaded K Street to protest lobbying efforts against the banks as detracting attention from the actual state of the American peopleEd Ott, Developing Haiti?, and Car Bombings in Kabul
May 18, 2010Labor correspondent and executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Ed Ott joins us in the studio to discuss why Americans are so angry, how the outcomes of the primaries could affect these issues, and ask where the power really lies. After abysmal coverage of the massive labor protests against the Washington Lobbyist stronghold on K Street one of the protestors tweeted, “maybe you have to serve tea to get noticed.Four Years After Katrina: Housing Rights in New Orleans
August 5, 2009Post-Katrina New Orleans has seen a steep rise in its homeless population, the demolition of public housing, and one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. Does New Orleans reflect what's happening in the rest of the country? Tiffany Gardner, Human Right to Housing Director at theNational Economic and Social Rights Initiative, Sam Jackson of Mayday New Orleans, and Leilani Farha, co-leader of the International Advisory Group on Forced Evictions on the housing crisis in New Orleans.The F Word: Oversight and Sacrifice, Just Not When it Comes to Wall Street
February 18, 2009You might have missed it but sometime last week Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner unveiled the Obama administration's latest installment of the bank bailout. The number floated was somewhere close to $2.5 trillion and scattered reports suggested that a laissez faire approach to the banks had won the day. That is, irresponsible, reckless Wall Street financiers i.e.
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