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Chuck and Balance
In his new book, New York Senator Chuck Schumer challenges his own Democratic Party to reconnect with America’s middle class. Also, how Money Changes Everything – for better or for worse.
What Do We Stand For?
Chuck Schumer, Senator (D NY) and author,
Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family At a Time (Rodale 2007), talks about the Democrats appealing to the American middle class
Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family At a Time is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Event
Book signing at Barnes and Noble, 2289 Broadway (@82nd street), Thursday January 25th at 7pm
Public Safety Hearings
Helen Diane Foster, New York City Council Member, (D-11th District) West Bronx, Morrisania, South Bronx, Highbridge, Melrose and Peter Vallone, Jr., New York City Council Member (D-22th District) Astoria, Long Island City; parts of Jackson Heights, Rikers, Randalls and Wards Islands & Chairperson of the Public Safety talk about the council hearings on Police training and the Sean Bell case
Money, Money, Money
Elissa Schappell, contributing editor to Vanity Fair and
Jenny Offill, who teaches at Brooklyn College, co-editors of Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns of Fortune ( Doubleday, 2007)
Also joining us are Felicia Sullivan, writer; Ruth Konigsberg, founder of womentk.com; and Marian Fontana, president of the September 11th Families Association and writer. They share their stories about dealing with money and the issues it raises.
Money Changes Everything is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Event
Q&A, book sale and signing tonight at Makor 35 W. 67th St. at 7PM. Tickets $12.
Arts Funding
Robin Pogrebin, cultural reporter for the New York Times talks about the change in arts funding in New York City
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