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GUESTS: Raj Nayak, Attorney with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University

Last month the Federal minimum wage was increased from $5.15 an hour to $5.85 an hour. This increase, although small, was the first one in over a decade and applies to workers across the nation. However, one class of workers are …

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… about Zachariah Walker a black factory worker.

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GUEST: Dean Baker, Co-Director of Center of Economic and Policy Report, author of the report, “Midsummer Meltdown: Prospects for the Stock and Housing Markets”

Last Friday, the Federal Reserve Bank issued a statement saying that it would seek to “facilitate the orderly functioning of financial markets.” Wall Street followed the statement and cash infusions from …

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GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade

Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today we’ll hear part 2 of Rahul’s thoughts on Impeachment.

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GUESTS: Faith Santilla, GABRIELA member and media liason, Ivy Quicho, Chair of the Los Angeles Chapter of GABRIELA Network

On August 5th, Dr. Annalisa Enrile was prevented from returning to Los Angeles from the capital city of the Philippines. Dr. Enrile, who is the national chairperson of the GABRIELA Network, was informed that she was …

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GUEST: Michelle Mehta, Attorney with the Coastal Water Quality Program, Natural Resources Defense Council

A new study of beaches in the US reveals that in 2006 there were a record number of days when beaches were considered too unsafe to swim in. In fact, according to the Natural Resources and Defense Council, which conducted the …

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… about Black WWII veterans and civil rights activists.

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GUEST: Scott McLemee, essayist with Inside Higher ED

In April of this year, a man by the name of Kenneth Kronberg committed suicide in Virginia by throwing himself off a freeway onto on-coming traffic. It was revealed later that Kronberg was closely associated with eight-time Presidential candidate Lyndon Larouche. Kronberg had run a recently defunct printing press …

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GUESTS: Gina Park, a High School student who has been on a waiting list for health insurance, Thomas Tran, Public Relations Specialist for LA Care, a community health plan that serves nearly 800,000 Los Angeles County residents through Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, and Healthy Kids. L.A.

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GUEST: Xandra Kayden, Senior Fellow at the UCLA School of Public Policy, on the National Board of the League of Women Voters

A newly formed group called Californians for Equal Representation, has submitted a ballot initiative to change the current statewide winner-take-all electoral college system. The group would like to see a formula based on congressional districts …

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