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There is a fact that is so surprising that it borders on being unbelievable. Research indicates that students from disadvantaged and advantaged class backgrounds who graduate from the same college go on to earn the same amount of money. Our g
In the next ten years, in the United States alone, 61 trillion dollars will transfer from baby boomers to the younger generations. With that wealth comes the power to determine the structure of our society and economy. The amount of money that
“Jews will not replace us” was the cry from far-right extremists a few years back in Charlottesville, Virginia and, in response to counter protests, then President Donald Trump said that there were good people on both sides. Really? In the wa
Child care costs, accessibility and quality represent a critical challenge for families across America. And an existential threat to a recovering economy, generally reliant on both parents working to sustain themselves and their families. Wit
Even if you’re not paying great attention to what’s happening to healthcare in your local community, the trends are hard to miss–hospital consolidations, the growth of out-patient facilities affiliated with the hospitals, and insurance company
A must hear and read for anyone interested in women’s basketball As podcasters go, I don’t generally insert myself into the story line like so many others do. To me, it’s about the guest, their book or their expe
There is no silver bullet when it comes to fixing the crisis we have in providing affordable housing for those who need it. You can look to rising demand with limited supply, foreign ownership of properties in desirable urban areas, restrictiv
It wasn’t so long ago that many political observers thought that the Democrats’ more centrist policies were being eclipsed by wild eyed progressives, like Sen. Bernie Sanders. In 2020, Joe Biden was written off by many after losing in Iowa and
Many shelters and rescue groups have had a hard time finding canines for all the human who need and want them. As social isolation grows, frayed relationships abound and despair about the human condition intensifies, we’ve begun to turn to dog
Economics, often called the ‘dismal’ science, may be less akin to science, say physics, than many want us to believe. The neoliberalism of the last forty years was best summarized by Britain’s late Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who sugge
The issues that seem difficult for health care providers everywhere in the US–access, coverage, staffing, cost and quality–are often magnified in rural settings. And rural providers may not be able to provide the whole suite of services that a
It seems as if everyone is screaming out for attention in this era given the ease with which people can find audiences for their meanderings, political views, loves and pet peeves. Just jump on line and wail away, with photos, videos and all m
America was born in rebellion over taxes. Remember the Boston Tea Party? And then hundreds of years later in the 2010’s came the TEA Party, which stood for Taxed Enough Already. However, that has been the mantra of the Republican Party for t
America has more than a rooting interest in wars taking place in places like Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere around the globe. If we go back to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s, we were led to
Just because humans stride atop the animal kingdom doesn’t mean that what affects us doesn’t affect other species on this earth or that the impact on them by things like climate breakdown doesn’t turn around and affect our lives. Naturalist A
When a gorgeous Poli theater was restored in my hometown about a decade ago, one of the changes that had to occur was making the seats larger, because since the early 20th century Americans have gotten heftier. Along with this collective weigh
As a Connecticut resident, it’s hard not to be aware of the storied history of Hiram Rickover, the “Father of the Nuclear Navy” and the development and commissioning of the first nuclear submarine in in 1952 at the Groton, Connecticut. Now with
Richard Rothstein did America a great public service back in 2017. In his groundbreaking book, “The Color of Law” he laid out chapter and verse the complicity of American government, at all levels, in the discriminatory practices that have led
The current approach to water management is failing to meet the demands of the growing human population and the severe challenges brought on by climate change. Our guest, David Sedlak, director of the Berkeley Water Center and author of “Water
When Hurricane Ian devastated Florida in 2022, two-thirds of the people who died were older adults. Similarly, the greatest number of fatalities during Hurricane Katrina, the California Camp Fire and the winter power outages in Texas were amon
Our guest today has a basic rule, based on research, about leaders of businesses and organizations. They should, first and foremost, be experts in the activity they lead and then acquire and assume the leadership skills required to run the ope
America’s food system is broken, bringing harm to family farmers, workers, the environment and our health. But it doesn’t have to be that way and the new documentary and companion book “Food, Inc. 2” provides plenty of approaches to reclaimi
There is a war raging below the surface, literally, for the critical minerals–lithium, copper, cobalt and that packet called ‘rare earth’–needed to power the conversion from fossil fuels to electrification of our lives. To build electric
Last time we spoke to our guest on this podcast he was trying to help us talk to science deniers. What ever happened to the America that thought better living(and longer life)could be achieved by following the science? He told us not to be ar
Industrial farming and ranching began about 80 years ago and now accounts for almost all agricultural output in America. We have allowed what once occupied nearly 40 percent of our population to be placed in the hands of of about one percent a
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