Host Margot Adler speaks with public policy analyst Stacy Dean about how food costs are affecting low-income Americans.
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Stacy Dean
is the Director of Food Assistance Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where she works to improve the food stamp program and provide eligible low-income families easier access to its benefits.
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Host Margot Adler speaks with economics professor Bruce Babcock about why food prices are going up.
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Host Margot Adler speaks with Christopher Wenk, Senior Director of International Policy at the United States Chamber of Commerce and Richard Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO to discuss free trade and its impact on American jobs.
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Christopher Wenk
is the Senior Director of International Policy at the United States Chamber of Commerce, which is the world’s largest business federation, representing more than three million businesses and organizations of every size, sector and region.
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Richard L. Trumka
was re-elected to a fourth term as Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL CIO in July 2005. He was first elected in 1995, the youngest secretary-treasurer in AFL CIO history, as part of an insurgent campaign to reinvigorate the American labor movement.
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Host Margot Adler speaks with public finance professor Linda Bilmes about the economic and human cost of the war in Iraq.
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Host Margot Adler speaks with political science professor Deborah Avant about the use of private contractors in the war in Iraq.
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Deborah D. Avant
is a Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies at University of California at Irvine.
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