Economy

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Old Mole Variety Hour March 24 2014

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this show and we hear: Bill talks with Bob Peterson of Rethinking Schools about the corporate agenda against public education, and how advocates for real education are and must continue to resist it. Joe Clement talks with Anna Coote of the New ... Read more

Toward a 30 Hour Work Week

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement and Anna Coote talk about an article she wrote for the NYTimes advocating a reduction of the work week to 30 hours*. They consider not just the reduction of the work-week, but different ways of appreciating our limited time. The fundamental issue is that the mor... Read more

Bob Peterson on rethinking schools, debunking the privatizing agenda, and fighting for education

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Bob Peterson of Rethinking Schools. They discuss the capitalist agenda to remake education into a business and why it isn't working. They consider ways that teaching has to connect to children's real lives, which standardized testing makes impossible... Read more

Interview with Professor Francis Boyle about Ukraine/Crimea crisis

Airs at: Thu, 03/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO News interviews Professor Francis Boyle to explore the latest developments in Ukraine and Crimea, and the U-S role in the current situation. Read more

Stagnant Wages, Rising Productivity, and Unemployment as Ideological Problem

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker reads a CounterPunch article by Geoffrey MacDonald, "The Revolving Door of Unemployment". MacDonald argues against the fallicious logic that tries to solve problems created by economic growth, like stagnating wages and unemployment, with MORE economic growth. Ge... Read more

High Stakes Testing As Class War Strategy

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with local education activist Hyung Nam about high stakes testing in US schools. Hyung talks about how he was threatened with firing from Wilson High School for asking critical questions about high stakes testing, but also for raising other critical quest... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 3 March 2014

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear about recent events in Venezuela, a 2009 documentary about pharmeceutical profits and female sexual dissatisfaction, a discussion of the meanings of work beyond waged labor, and an upcoming performance about young women negotiating... Read more

Mark Weisbrot on Venezuela

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Mark Weisbrot about recent upheavals in Ukraine and especially in Venezuela, where the right-wing protesters lack the leverage to oust the recently elected government.   Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Centre for Economic and Policy Research in W... Read more

Survey Analyzes Possibilities for "Co-Existence" Between GMO and Non-GMO Crops

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
 The USDA Committee on 21st Century Biotechnology has released policy recommendations for what they call the “co-existence” of genetically modified (GMO) and non-GMO crops.  The policies were necessitated by a lack of data regarding GMO crop contamination and its effect on ... Read more

US Job Growth Subsidies Favor Corporate Tax Breaks Over Small Businesses

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
A new report on job growth in the U-S suggests that the bulk of subsidies being granted to business to spur job growth go to large corporate tax breaks, rather than small, local businesses. Leigh McIlvane is a research analyst with Good Jobs First, who issued the report. Th... Read more