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Showing videos filed under: Irasema Garza
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.Week in Review: Women's Health Crisis Affects us All
October 24, 2009Along with Irasema Garza, president of Legal Momentum, Eesha Pandit of Raising Women's Voices For The Health Care We Need, and Dr. David Himmelstein, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, Smith joined Laura on Monday to talk about the rampant inequalities in the existing health care system and to debate whether the proposed reforms in Congress go far enough.Obama's Budget: New Deal or Makeover?
April 9, 2009How far does Obama’s budget go? With 1,000 jobs being lost every hour and a tax system that favors the wealthy, our guests discuss what’s in the new budget and the limits to progressive reform in the United States. David Cay Johnston former New York Times reporter and the author of Free Lunch:The Budget Battle, Chris Bowers, and Coleman v. Franken Part II
April 8, 2009Obama's budget, some have said, is a step in the right direction. So what's in it and what's bound to be cut? We talk to David Cay Johnston and others. Then Chris Bowers on healthcare reform and the budget battle. And Part II of the Uptake's documentary on the Minnesota Senate race.GRITtv Live at Noon: The Obama Budget: Fixing Foundations or Shifting Furniture?
April 8, 2009While the Obamas were in Europe the House & Senate approved the president's $3 trillion budget. But the battle isn’t over. What will be cut and what will remain? Speaking late last month Obama said, "There are times when you can decorate your home and there are times when you have to fix its foundation.Why Business is Paying to Defeat EFCA
March 19, 2009The end of civilization as we know it? The worst bill ever? That is how the right and much of business have characterized the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). From Newt Gingrich to Mitch McConnell and business leaders including Warren Buffet the argument is being made that EFCA will in fact cost jobs.Are You Feeling Stimulated or Screwed?
February 7, 2009Bipartisanship means progressives, and the vast majority of those who voted for Barack Obama, get screwed.Will Spending Create Jobs?
February 4, 2009Will spending create jobs? Dean Baker, Teresa Ghilarducci and others on Obama's stimulus plan.How to Stimulate Jobs and The Chicago Sit Down Strike
February 3, 2009Will spending create new jobs? Republic Windows and Doors workers on what's happened since their sit down strike in December. And a new report from the American Society of Civil Engineers gives America's infrastructure a low mark.
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