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Social Security Part 8: Private Lessons
What can we learn from other countries about private accounts as an option for Social Security? The U.K. and Chile both switched to partially private pension accounts, with varying levels of success.
Copy-rights and Copy-Wrongs
Nick Thompson Senior Editor at Legal Affairs
says free file sharing is good for small artists and better for the industry overall
» Legal Affairs
and
Dan Glickman President of the Motion Picture Association of America defends the industry position in the supreme court case, MGM v Grokster
» Motion Picture Association of America
and
Joe Fleisher Founder of Big Champagne
on what exists on filesharing networks
» Big Champagne
Not Your News Director's Israel
David Fisher,
Director of the New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and Television and organizer of the film festival "Homeland Insecurity" opening this week at Two Boots Pioneer Cinema,
- on new documentaries coming out of Israel that offer a view of Israel not found in the evening news
and
Michale Boganim,
Director of the documentary "Odessa . . . Odessa!" about Ukrainian immigrants living in Brighton Beach and in Israel
and
Suha Arraf,
Director of "Good Morning, Jerusalem," documenting the lives of some Palestinians living in Jerusalem
» New Foundation
» Film Festival info
Social Security Part 8: Private Lessons
Truman Packard,
World Bank Senior Economist in the Human Development Department of the Latin America and Caribbean region and co-author,
Keeping the Promise of Social Security in Latin America
{Stanford University Press, 2005),
- on private retirement accounts in Latin America
» World Bank Report
and
Tod Robberson,
Europe Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning News,
- on the UK's experience with private pension accounts
» Dallas Morning News
New York 51: District 41
Tracy Boyland,
New York City Councilwoman (D-41) representing parts of Bedford Stuyvesant, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, East Flatbush,
- on life and politics in her Brooklyn district and listeners call in with stories from their neighborhoods
» District 41
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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