(2014/01/27) Our social safety sieve (Economics) - a podcast by BestOfTheLeft.com
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Edition #793
Our social safety sieve
Today we look at low-income individuals and the social programs that serve them to try to figure out once and for all if poor people are human or not and whether they should be helped or thrown to the wolves for our entertainment.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: SNAP: Myths vs. Facts - @takepart TV - Air Date: 12-02-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Wax & wire - Loch Lomond
Ch. 4: Act 2: Defining Economic Problems In All The Wrong Places - @jimmy_dore Show - Air Date 12-27-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: I wish I knew - Years and Years
Ch. 6: Act 3: Fox News: Welfare for Me, Not For Thee! - @majorityfm - Air Date: 10-11-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Hell=Other People - Bettie Serveert
Ch. 8: Act 4: The coded-language demonization of social programs - Citizen Radio - Air Date: 1-13-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Minnie the moocher - Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
Ch. 10: Act 5: Congress Takes Another Vacation, the Jobless Starve! - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 01-16-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Hungry like the wolf - Duran Duran
Ch. 12: Act 6: Economist Richard Wolff: Does Government Healthcare & Welfare Hurt Economies? - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 11-13-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Capitalism - Yellow Umbrella
Ch. 14: Act 7: The GOPs poverty agenda - @allinwithchris - Air Date: 01-07-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Poverty - Bobby "Blue" Bland
Ch. 16: Act 8: Getting perspective from Europe on how screwed we are - @fakedansavage - Air Date: 8-20-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: No champagne socialist - Arkells
Ch. 18: Act 9: Demanding Tuition-Free Public College Education - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 19: Song 9: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 20: Act 10: A Tip For Christian Tippers - Real Time With @billmaher - Air Date 11-10-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: Time for actions on the TPP - Jamie in Cincinnati
Ch. 22: Actual definitions vs popular usages - Krissy from Kansas
Leave a message at 202-999-3991
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 23: Final comments on systems, shifting baselines and the definitions of racism
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
ACTIVISM:
Make Public College Tuition Free, CREDO petition
Sources/further reading:
Tuition-Free Public Education Is Possible. Demand it. via Truthout
State by State: Student Loan Debt
Campaign for America's Future
Ny Sen. Gillibrand Pushes Student Loan Refinance
Time To Bring Bankruptcy Back for Student Loan Debt via Gawker
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by:
Jay! Tomlinson
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