DNC 2008 -OBAMANOMICS

WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, August 25, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Sixteen Million Americans In Dire Poverty –
Yup, It's the Economy!
with
Robert Pollin, Co-Director, Political Economy Research Inst.,
and Prof. of Economics at the University of Mass., Amherst
and
Meizhu Lui, Director, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative,
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development

Our Health Care System Is Sick -
Will Democrats Prescribe Placebos?
with
Benjamin Day, co-author of "State Health Reform Flatlines"
and Ex. Dir., Mass-Care

Blogging the DNC:
Blow by Blow Happening & Political Analysis
with
Gautam Dutta, Deputy Dir., Political Reform Program for the
New American Foundation & the Asian American Action Fund,
Christopher Hayes, The Nation and
Malcolm Clark, blogger for Labourhome
& The World Wants Obama

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OBAMANOMICS

Sixteen Million Americans In Dire Poverty –
Yup, It's the Economy!
with
Robert Pollin, Co-Director, Political Economy Research Inst.,
and Prof. of Economics at the University of Mass., Amherst
and
Meizhu Lui, Director, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative,
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development

The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty
has reached a 32-year high and millions of working Americans are
falling closer to the poverty line. "Economic security for American
families" is the Obama slogan, but what's the program and will it
bridge the gap between the nation's 'haves' and 'have-nots'?
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Our Health Care System Is Sick -
Will Democrats Prescribe Placebos?
with
Benjamin Day, co-author of "State Health Reform Flatlines"
and Ex. Dir., Mass-Care

Are the democrats likely to pass bold health reforms or are they
afraid to rock the private insurance boat? The country has a
consensus for expanded health coverage, but experience shows you
can't achieve universal coverage at an affordable price unless you
throw out the insurance companies overhead and profit. Have the
Democrats learned this lesson or is 'universal coverage,' merely a
euphemism for the right to purchase private health insurance? Has
health reform flatlined?
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Blogging the DNC:
Blow by Blow Happening & Political Analysis
with
Gautam Dutta, Deputy Dir., Political Reform Program for the
New American Foundation & the Asian American Action Fund,
Christorher Hayes, The Nation
andMalcolm Clark, blogger for Labourhome
& The World Wants Obama

We'll go behind the hype and provide a blow by blow analysis, with
national and international bloggers of the politics driving the convention
and provide perspectives from the 'Big Tent' – the special bloggers,
non-profits and progressive activist venue at the Democratic National
Convention.