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Interviews on global affairs and daily life
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Interview Archives: Employment
Thursday May 24, 2012, 11:06 AM
The New Geography of Jobs
Enrico Moretti, Ph.D., the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Career Development Chair in Labor Economics, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Economics • Labor/worker issues • Employment
Wednesday December 02, 2009, 11:06 AM
My Costs, Your Wages: The Working Poor in Illinois
Margaret Stapleton, J.D., Senior Attorney, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Chicago
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Business and Economy • Government • Labor/worker issues • Employment • Poverty • United States • Illinois
Tuesday November 03, 2009, 11:06 AM
Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America's Cities
Nik Theodore, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development and Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago
Host: David Inge
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- Professor Theodore's profile
- The Report:Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America's Cities
Categories: Crime • Economics • Labor/worker issues • Employment • Law • Slavery
Wednesday August 12, 2009, 10:06 AM
Coping with Unemployment
Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., Author of The Worry Cure: Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You; Director, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy; President, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies; Associate Editor, International Journal of Cognitive Therapy; Clinical Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell University Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Behavior • Labor/worker issues • Employment • WILL Connect
Wednesday February 18, 2009, 10:06 AM
Worker Displacement, Labor Relations, and Community Cohesion
Robert Hironimus-Wendt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Western Illinois University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Business and Economy • Community • Labor/worker issues • Employment • United States • Illinois
Tuesday April 01, 2008, 11:06 AM
Promoting Economic Opportunity for Workers in a Challenging Economy
Christine Owens, Executive Director, The National Employment Law Project, New York
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Economics • Labor/worker issues • Employment
Wednesday January 28, 2004, 10:06 AM
Just What The Nation Needed: The Welfare Reform Law of 1996
Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution Health and Social Welfare Initiative
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Economics • Labor/worker issues • Employment • Law • Politics
