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Building Bridges Radio: Stimulating the Economy; Recession Hits Domestic Workers

January 27, 2009, 9:53AM

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                            National Edition
         Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Domestic Workers Hit Hard By Recession
with

Ai- Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United

DMU represents over 200,000 nannies, housekeepers, and elderly care-

givers in NYC. Now, however, their organization is hemorrhaging members

as the growing joblessness of their employers trickles down to the number

of hires of these caregivers. Aside, from growing unemployment amongst

their members,the spike in joblessness for those remaining on the job has

fostered competition resulting in wage cuts, increased workload, and

worsening conditions on the job. Under these conditions, & excluded from

the protections of most labor law, DWU's efforts to secure a NYS Domestic

Workers Bill of Rights is even more pressing.
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Will Obama's Stimulus Plan Provide Jobs and a

Breath Life Into The Economy?
with

Arun Gupta, Editor, the Indypendent
and
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens College & of

Political Science & Sociology, Gradate Center, City University of NY

While the meat has yet to be put on the skeletal frame of President-Elect

Obama's proposed stimulus package, he has revealed enough to cause

alarm for present and future beneficiaries of Medicare and Social Security

and serious questions as to whether it will create "shovel ready" jobs and

whether its tax cuts can jump-start the sputtering economy.

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To Download or listen to this 28 minute program

go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/31334

http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesNationalStimulatingTheEconomyRecessionHitsDomestic

for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org

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                          KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
                          WXOJ, Northampton, MA
                          KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon
                          WKNH ,Keene, NH
                          CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada
                          KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado
                          WRPI, Troy, New York
                          WNRB, Wausau, WI
                          KRBS, Oroville, CA
                          WHLD, Buffalo, NY
                          Free Radio Olympia, Olympia,WA
                          KQRP Salida, California
                          East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA
                          KSKQ, Ashland, Oregon
                          KWMD, Kasiloff-Anchorage, Alaska

                          as well as internet stations:

                         Radio Veronica, West Point, PA
                         The Journey Radio
                         WXXE
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                         Radio for Peace International
                         Radio Labourstart
                         AmericanFM.org
                         RadioDriftless.org
                         Grateful Dread Public Radio

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We'd like to have an accurate list of which stations are airing Building Bridges.
So please let us know! Email knash@igc.org
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