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Rich Fiesta – ARA – Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security’s Birthdays’
From the Alliance for Retired Americans we have Rich Fiesta on the program to talk about the birthdays of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
The New American Economy: Glasgow, Scotland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sister Cities Becoming Post-Industrial
This week on The New American Economy, Dr. Patty DeMarco has Grant Ervin from Pittsburgh and Jamie Cooke from Glasgow, Scotland on the program to talk about how the two ...
Cristina Lopez – Media Matters – Jeff Sessions Sounds Like A White Supremacist
Cristina Lopez from Media Matters joins us to talk about how when Jeff Sessions made the announcement that DACA was going to be shut down that he was using a ...
Berry Craig – KY AFL-CIO – Republicans Cut Wages
From the Kentucky AFL-CIO we have our regular contributor, Berry Craig, on the program. Berry says that republicans want to make a significant pay cut to public wages by switching ...
Doug Cunningham – WIN – Lets Deport Nazis, Not DACA Recipients
Doug Cunningham from Workers Independent News joins us to let fill us in on the most recent Gallop Poll saying that 61% of people in America approve of unions. We ...
Thomas Merton Center: Standing for peace amid nuclear threats
Host John Haer invites Michael Drohan, member of the Thomas Merton Center’s anti-war committee, to discuss the growing tensions between America and North Korea, the possibility of nuclear war, and ...
The Point of Pittsburgh – First Wine & Spirits Price Raises in 25 years
Back on the Point of Pittsburgh with Rosemary Trump and Charlie McCollester they talk to use about local goings on in Pittsburgh, like how the prices at Wine & Spirits ...
The Labor Intensive – Labor Day In Pittsburgh
This week on The Labor Intensive with Rosemary Trump and Charlie McCollester we talk about what the Labor Day Parade in Pittsburgh was like and the great turnout they witnessed. ...
Kate Gjaja & Lali Watt – LWV – Affordable Housing, Minimum Wage, and Automatic Voter Registration
In this two part interview with The League of Women Voters in Willamette Illinois we first have Kate Gjaja on to talk about the League’s effort to inform people on ...
Michael Johnston & Jim Chase – All of These Crazy Things Trump Is Doing Are Just Distractions From The Russia Investigation
Former teacher Michael Johnston and host of Cut To The Chase Talk Radio, Jim Chase join us to discuss a lot of the issues going on in our country right ...