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The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 9, 2011

President Obama delivered his big jobs speech last night. We’ll get reaction and analysis from It’s a Free Country’s political reporter Anna Sale and WNYC’s business and economics editor Charlie Herman. Plus: The New York State DEC released a new report about the impact of hydraulic fracturing; an explainer of the Chilean model of social security from the man who designed the model; the deal with special elections in New York; the Decade 9/11 Conversations continue with middle east scholar Fawaz Gerges and the New Yorker’s Lawrence Wright; and lab-grown meats.

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