How’s your 401(k) doin’? As the stock market continues to slide from its lofty heights of the late 1990s, retirement plans are put on hold, childrens' college funds are plundered, and consumer anxiety is slowing an already lethargic economy. Author Jeff Madrick and Financial Times columnist Amity Shlaes join Brian to debate the state of the economy, its ills, and what might get it moving again. Also, first-year New York City teachers talk about the expectations and experiences of their rookie year in the classroom.
The Washington Carney-val
Jay Carney, White House Correspondent for Time says the Democrats' election plan is not to have one.
What Economy?
Amity Shlaes, Columnist with the Financial Times and author of The Greedy Hand : How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What to Do About It (Harvest 2000)wants you to know how to fix the economy
More Economy
Jeff Madrick Author and Economics columnist for the New York Times and Editor of Challenge Magazine. His book: Why Economies Grow:The Forces that Shape Prosperity and How to Get Them Working Again(Basic Books)has a solution to the nation's economic ills.
So You Wanna Be Governor...
Andrea Bernstein WNYC reporter on last night's debate
Teacher Open Phones
Talk talk talk talk
Pilgrims' Progress
Jesse Cervantes First year teacher at CES 58 in the Bronx, teaches 5th grade homeroom
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Yasmin Zerhouni First year public school teacher in New York City on what teaching fellows have learned so far this year
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Anna-Marie Nelson First year teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt School in Washington ...
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Yasmin Zerhouni First year public school teacher in New York City on what teaching fellows have learned so far this year
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Anna-Marie Nelson First year teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt School in Washington ...
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