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A Big Case About Minimum Wage
A home health aide from Queens gets her day at the Supreme Court. Take a look at the legal, moral and economic issues raised by the case of Evelyn Coke who wants to be covered by the minimum wage laws. Also, dealing with mental illness on campus; and hate speech versus free speech: where do we draw the line?
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Home Health Aide Gets Her Day at the Supreme Court
Steven Greenhouse, metropolitan reporter for the New York Times and Steven Dawson, director of the Para-Professional Healthcare Institute, talk about what is at stake in Long Island Care at Home vs. Evelyn Coke, the Supreme Court case between a home health care aide and her former employee over minimum wage salary and overtime.
Korean-Americans and Virginia Tech
Steven Choi, staff attorney at the Asian American and Legal Defense and Education Fund, program coordinator with YKASEC-Empowering the Korean American Community, discusses how Koreans in New York are responding to the shootings at Virginia Tech.
Eminent Danger
Pete Earley, former Washington Post reporter and the author of the Pulitzer-prize finalist Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness (Putnam, 2006)
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Alan I. Glass, the director of Student Health Services at Washington University in St.Louis
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Donna Satow, the co-founder of The Jed Foundation that works to prevent suicide and promote mental health among college students, weigh in on some of the issues surrounding how colleges handle mental health issues and when intervention is advisable and legal.
Crazy is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Drawing the Line
Have we reached a turning point on what's acceptable speech, in light of the Don Imus firing? Cora Daniels, journalist and author of Ghetto Nation: A Journey into the Land of Bling and the Home of the Shameless; Davey D, columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, runs a website about hip-hop and politics; John McWhorter, senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute; Marc Maron, stand up comic and former Air America host; and listeners weigh in.
Statement from Russell Simmons and Benjamin Chavis of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network
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