Focus 580 with David Inge
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Interview Archives: Labor/worker issues
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
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Categories: Economics • Labor/worker issues • Employment • Law • Politics
Friday February 13, 2004, 11:06 AM
THE NEW RUTHLESS ECONOMY: WORK AND POWER IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Simon Head, Director of the Project on Technology and the Workplace at The Century Foundation
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Categories: Business and Economy • Labor/worker issues • Technology
Tuesday May 02, 2006, 10:06 AM
DEATH IN THE HAYMARKET: A STORY OF CHICAGO, THE FIRST LABOR MOVEMENT AND THE BOMBING THAT DIVIDED GILDED AGE AMERICA
James Green, Professor of Labor History at the University of Massachusetts Boston
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Categories: History • Labor/worker issues
Friday October 05, 2007, 11:06 AM
Shareholder Activism: What Works, What Doesn’t and Why it Matters
Patricia Daly, Executive Director, Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment
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Categories: Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Economics • Labor/worker issues
Thursday February 07, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Writers Guild of America Strike and the 2008 Oscars
David Desser, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Unit for Cinema Studies
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Categories: Cinema/Theatres/Film • Film/Movies • Labor/worker issues
Monday March 03, 2008, 11:06 AM
Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America
Julia B. Isaacs, M.P.P., Child and Family Policy Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and a First Focus Fellow, Washington, DC
For over 200 years, Americans have believed that if they worked hard and drew on their intelligence and skills, they would move up the economic ladder. During this hour of Focus 580 we ask the question: does this mobility really exist? Our guest is Julia Isaacs, Child and Family Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution. We’ll talk about a recent report that finds the American dream is alive, but frayed. Most people are better off than their parents, but the benefits of economic growth have been uneven, with some winning big and others losing ground.
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Categories: Consumer issues • Economics • Family • Gender issues • Labor/worker issues • Race/Ethnicity
Wednesday March 12, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Agenda for Shared Prosperity
Susan Helper, Ph.D. , A & T Professor of Economics, Whitehead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
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Categories: Business and Economy • Labor/worker issues
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
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Categories: Economics • Labor/worker issues • Employment
Tuesday April 15, 2008, 10:06 AM
Whistleblowers: What Are They? What Happens to Them? What's the Law?
Stephen M. Kohn, J.D., Executive Director, National Whistleblower Center, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Ethics • Government • Labor/worker issues • Whistleblowers • Politics
Monday May 12, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Welfare Reform of 1996, an Update
Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution
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Categories: Economics • Government • History • United States history • Labor/worker issues • Race/Ethnicity
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