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Tyler Cherry – Media Matters – Sinclair Broadcasting Is Even Freer To Spread Their Propaganda Now
From Media Matters, we have Tyler Cherry on the program to continue our coverage of Sinclair Broadcasting. Recently the FCC has recently enabled Sinclair to spread their Pro-Trump propaganda more ...
Sara Rosenbaum – The American Prospect – Weakening Medicaid From Within
Sara Rosenbaum, author of the article “Weakening Medicaid From Within” in The American Prospect joins us to talk about a law that was originally used to get more people covered ...
Frank Emspak – WIN – Climate Change Is Making Ice Fishing Season Shorter
Frank Emspak of Worker’s Independent News comes on the program to talk about how climate change is really affecting Wisconsin’s outdoors community and tourism industry. He talks about ice road ...
New American Economy – A Global Compact for a Better Future
This week we discuss the UN’s Millennium Declaration of goals for the future, which include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, establishing universal primary education, and empowering women as an agent ...
Kay Tillow – Unions for Single Payer Healthcare – AFL-CIO is Partly on Board
Kay Tillow says that the AFL-CIO has agreed that single payer healthcare is a good idea, but they don’t want to be leaders on the issue. She says we need ...
Rich Fiesta – Alliance for Retired Americans
Rich Fiesta joins us from the Alliance for Retired Americans to discuss the importance of a cost of living increase for retirees.
Aaron Lorenzo – Politico – Tax Reform Update
Politico’s Aaron Lorenzo gives us a tax reform update from Washington.
Alex Kaplan – Politico – Russian Propaganda Infiltrates Sites
Alex Kaplan joins us from Media Matters to discuss his piece, “Russian propaganda on Twitter is infiltrating fake news websites.”
Berry Craig – Kentucky Labor Council – Names that Lie
False labeling is so pervasive in our political landscape. A group in Kentucky called“ Save Our Pensions” is supporting a program that lowers benefits for state employees and retirees alike, ...
Tom Balya & Allen Kukovich – Student Debt, “Regulations”, and Clean Energy Jobs
Allen Kulovich & Tom Balya continue the political discussion of the day – how student debt has changed America, what the word “regulations” really means, 100,000 clean energy jobs in ...