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Ms. Moneybags
Women’s clothing usually doesn’t have pockets, and maybe that’s one reason many women feel uncomfortable talking about how much money they make. In her new book, Money: a Memoir, Liz Perle shares the story of how a divorce and the ensuing financial shakeup forced her to confront the size of her paycheck. Also: the trouble with "boot camp", Tom Suozzi's face-off with Eliot Spitzer, and the Radio Rookies.
Capital News
Liz Benjamin, political reporter for the Albany Times-Union and blogger
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Jim Rutenberg, reporter for the New York Times
- summarize the news out of Albany and New York City Hall
» Times-Union Blog
» "City Proposes Tougher Limits on Lobbyists" by Jim Rutenberg and Winnie Hu in the The New York Times
Cash Complex
Liz Perle, editor in chief of Common Sense Media and author, Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash (Henry Holt and Company, 2006)
- on women's complicated relationship to money
» Money, A Memoir (Henry Holt and Company)
Teenage Wasteland
Maia Szalavitz, senior fellow at stats.org, a media watchdog group, and author, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Costs Parents and Hurts Kids (Riverhead, 2006),
- on the downside of "tough love" boot camps for young adults
» Help at Any Cost (Riverhead)
Radio Rookies
Kaari Pitkin, senior producer, WNYC's Radio Rookies
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Edward Llanos, high school student
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Amina Tariq, high school student
- on life in Elmhurst
» WNYC Radio Rookies
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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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 [41]
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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