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Homes for the Homeless

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Friday, June 30, 2006

A pilot plan in major US cities is offering free apartments to the homeless with no strings attached. Guest host Mike Pesca will talk to the new homeless services commissioner about the plan. Also: with the release of the new Devil Wears Prada movie, we’ll look at what happens when assistants retaliate against their bosses.

Don't Hate Us Because We're Powerful

Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and co-author, America Against the World : How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked (Times Books, 2006)
- explains why Americans were not well liked in a recent poll

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Hopeful about the Homeless

Robert Hess, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Homeless Services
-on his plans to house the homeless

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Vota Por Mi!

Hector Tobar, Mexico bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, author TRANSLATION NATION: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish Speaking United States, Riverhead Books Trade, 2006
- previews this weekends presidential elections in Mexico

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From Hero to Zero?

Arun Venugopal , WNYC reporter
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Andrea Bernstein WNYC Reporter
- on former police commissioner, Bernard Kerik's guilty plea to corruption charges

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Devil is in the details…

Gini Graham Scott, founder and director of Changemakers and Creative Communications & Research and author, of the upcoming: A Survival Guide for Working with Humans: Dealing with Whiners, Back-Stabbers, Know-it-Alls, and Other Difficult People and A Survival Guide to Managing Employees from Hell: Handling Idiots, Whiners, Slackers, and Other ...

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Robert Hess




Robert Hess

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Robert Hess, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Homeless Services. Hess discusses the city's plan to combat homelessness. 6/30/2006

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