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The debate about the Senate immigration bill continues even with Congress in recess. We’ll take a close look at the proposed points system for new immigrants: What kind of skills and education will be enough to make the cut and how it works in other countries? Also, the bizarre experience of applying to pre-school and why we have community boards in New York City.
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Point of Order
Demetrios Papademetriou, president and founder of the Migration Policy Institute, talks about the proposed point system in the immigration bill and Jeffrey Reitz, professor of Sociology and R.F. Harney Professor of Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies University of Toronto, talks about the Canadian immigration point system, which has been duplicated in other countries.
What are Community Boards for?
Tom Angotti, director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning and development, explains what purpose community boards serve and how independent they are from borough politicians.
Pay Disparity and Gender
Kim Gandy, president, National Organization for Women, talks about the Supreme Courts decision on pay disparity.
How Far Would You Go?
Roxana Reid, founder of Smart City Kids and Gabriella Rowe, director of the Mandell School, discuss the extent parents will go through to get their kids into preschool, and Nancy Kolben, executive director, Child Care, Inc. (CCI) talks about the importance of universal pre-K, which she thinks should be the right of every child in New York City.
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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.
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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.
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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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