Focus 580 with David Inge
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Interview Archives: Economics
Tuesday January 27, 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
Thursday February 05, 2004, 11:06 AM
SMALL IS PROFITABLE: THE HIDDEN ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF MAKING ELECTRICAL RESOURCES THE RIGHT SIZE
Joel N. Swisher, Leader and Principal, Energy and Services, Rocky Mountain Institute
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Energy • efficiency
Wednesday February 25, 2004, 10:06 AM
ORIGINS OF THE CRASH: THE GREAT BUBBLE AND ITS UNDOING
Roger Lowenstein, journalist with The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and columnist for Smart Money
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • History • United States history
Tuesday March 09, 2004, 11:06 AM
THE MARKETPLACE OF REVOLUTION: HOW CONSUMER POLITICS SHAPED AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
T. H. Breen, the William Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University
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Categories: Consumer issues • Economics • History • United States history
Monday April 05, 2004, 11:06 AM
Economics, Race and Gender
Julianne Malveaux, economist and journalist, in residence at Unit One, serving on the Chancellor’s Committee to Commemorate Brown v. Board of Education
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Categories: Economics • Gender issues • Race/Ethnicity
Thursday April 29, 2004, 10:06 AM
The State of Nutrition In The Developing World: Problems and Trends
Reynaldo Martorell, Professor of International Nutrition and Chair, Department of International Health of the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University
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Categories: Economics • International Affairs • Nutrition
Friday April 30, 2004, 11:06 AM
WHAT MATTERS MOST: HOW A SMALL GROUP OF PIONEERS IS TEACHING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY TO BIG BUSINESS, AND WHY BIG BUSINESS IS LISTENING
Jeffrey Hollender, CEO of Seventh Generation
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Environment
Friday July 23, 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, February 13, 2004, 11 am
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Labor/worker issues
Wednesday October 13, 2004, 11:06 AM
The Working Poor Families Project Report (from The Annie E. Casey Foundation)
Brandon Roberts, Report Director
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Categories: Economics • Family • Labor/worker issues • Poverty • Public Policy
Tuesday February 01, 2005, 11:06 AM
Social Security Is Not In Danger
Mark Weisbrot, co-director Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington D.C.
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Categories: Economics • Public Policy • Social Security
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