The Brian Lehrer Show: Our Taxes, Ourselves

The Brian Lehrer Show

Our Taxes, Ourselves

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Two women, one the head of a feminist advocacy group, the other on the Wall Street Journal editorial board, compare notes on how tax and labor laws penalize working women – can they find common ground? Also, the racial economic divide, William Weld drops out of the race for Governor as Tom Kean, Jr. drops in and how the CIA protected Nazi war criminals.

The End of the Weld As We Know It

Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Reporter
- why Republican William Weld dropped out of the governor's race

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Garden Variety Primary

Kathy Barrett-Carter, editorial writer at the Newark Star-Ledger
- on the New Jersey primary election held yesterday

» Newark Star-Ledger

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Race to the Finish

Meizhu Lui, Executive Director of United for a Fair Economy, and co-author with Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, and Rebecca Anderson, The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the US Wealth Divide
- says the racial wealth gap is the result of government policies

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Labor Pains

Kimberley Strassel, member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal and co-author with Celeste Colgan and John C. Goodman, Leaving Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006)
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Heidi Hartmann President, Institute for Women's Policy Research
-agree that tax and labor ...

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Turning a Blind Eye

Richard Ben-Veniste, former chief of the Watergate Task Force of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office from 1973 to 1975, member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, and member of the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Interagency Working Group Roster
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Elizabeth ...

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