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A Big Case About Minimum Wage

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

A home health aide from Queens gets her day at the Supreme Court. Take a look at the legal, moral and economic issues raised by the case of Evelyn Coke who wants to be covered by the minimum wage laws. Also, dealing with mental illness on campus; and hate speech versus free speech: where do we draw the line?

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Home Health Aide Gets Her Day at the Supreme Court

Steven Greenhouse, metropolitan reporter for the New York Times and Steven Dawson, director of the Para-Professional Healthcare Institute, talk about what is at stake in Long Island Care at Home vs. Evelyn Coke, the Supreme Court case between a home health care aide and her former employee over minimum ...

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Korean-Americans and Virginia Tech

Steven Choi, staff attorney at the Asian American and Legal Defense and Education Fund, program coordinator with YKASEC-Empowering the Korean American Community, discusses how Koreans in New York are responding to the shootings at Virginia Tech.

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Eminent Danger

Pete Earley, former Washington Post reporter and the author of the Pulitzer-prize finalist Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness (Putnam, 2006) and Alan I. Glass, the director of Student Health Services at Washington University in St.Louis and Donna Satow, the co-founder of

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Drawing the Line

Have we reached a turning point on what's acceptable speech, in light of the Don Imus firing? Cora Daniels, journalist and author of Ghetto Nation: A Journey into the Land of Bling and the Home of the Shameless; Davey D, columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, runs a

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