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(The Wu's Photo Land/flickr)Counting Calories, Counting Lobbyists
Under pressure from the restaurant industry, the New York City Council may overturn the new Health Department rule that fast food chains must post the number of calories in their dishes. We get both sides. Also, immigration and domestic work in New York City; training NYPD undercover officers; tracking taxicabs; and lobbyists on your coffee table.
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Eye in the Sky
Bhairavi Desai, executive director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, objects to plans to require satellite tracking for New York City taxis.
Training Days
Bob Hennelly, WNYC reporter covering City Hall and security issues, discusses what he found investigating the training of NYPD undercover officers.
Counting Calories
Charles Hunt, executive vice president of the Greater New York City Chapters of the New York State Restaurant Association, talks about why the industry is opposed to a New York City Board of Health measure that would require restaurants to post calorie counts on menus.
Dr. Lynn Silver, assistant commissioner for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, talks about why the city says it needs to use this to make New Yorkers healthier.
Domestic Agenda
Rhacel Parrenas, associate professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis and the author of Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work (Stanford University Press, 2001) and Children of Global Migration (Stanford University Press, 2005) joins Ai-Jen Poo and Erline Browne, organizers with Domestic Workers United, to explore issues facing immigrant domestic workers.
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Today’s guests will be taking part in “Maids and Madams” a conference on immigration and domestic work sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Shirley Chisholm Center for Research on Women at Brooklyn College on March 6-8. For more information, call.
Strange Bedfellows
Neil Selkirk, photographer discusses his book Lobbyist (Powerhouse 2007) and Jane Earley, director of the Center for Conservation Innovation at the World Wildlife Fund and David Stuphen, vice president of Government Relations and Legislative Council at Viacom talk about being Lobbyist in Washington
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