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    Making A Statement

    For issue 20 in the "30 Issues in 30 Days" series: "Whose Moral Values?" we hear from Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) and conservative columnist Maggie Gallagher. Plus, listeners weigh in with their personal belief statements as we play excerpts from the NPR series, This I Believe and speak with series curator Jay Allison.

30 Issues: Whose Moral Values?

Maggie Gallagher, author, syndicated columnist featured in the New York Post and president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy
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Rep. Barney Frank , U.S. Congressman (D-MA), subject of the documentary, now out on DVD, Let's Get Frank: The Trials and Tribulations of Rep. Barney Frank (First Run Features)

Let's Get Frank is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Making a Statement

Jay Allison, independent broadcast journalist, host and curator of NPR’s "This I Believe" series, now a book: This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (Henry Holt, 2006)
selected listeners share their credos plus excerpts from the audio book, "This I Believe"

This I Believe is available for purchase at Amazon.com

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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.

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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!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

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!

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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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