Building Bridges: Assaults on the Safety Net - Kostenloses Hörbuch

Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ******************************** How We Can & Why We Must Stave Off The Assaults On Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security & Public Assistance With . Joe Baker, Pres., Medicare Rights Center, serves on the US Dept. of Health and Human Services Medicare/Medicaid Advisory Panel, former NYS Deputy Sec'y for Health and Human Services under Gov. David Paterson . Timothy Casey, Senior Staff Attorney with Legal Momentum . Nancy Altman, Co-Chair, Strengthen Social Security Campaign Sixteen years ago Pres. Clinton and a bipartisan Congress replaced Aid To Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) which has proven to be a disaster for poor parents and children, even more so in the midst of recession and economic downturn. The shredding of the safety net began with AFDC and is expanding with proposals to cut, to privatize, to block grant or set up vouchers for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Both political parties seem willing to sacrifice key elements of these programs at the altar of the budget deficit. ********************* please email Building Bridges if you are broadcasting our National Edition. We'd like to have an accurate list of which stations are airing Building Bridges. So please let us know! knash@igc.org Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and is streamed, and archived cast at www.wbai.org Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over: KKRN Bella Vista, CA KGHI, Westport, WA KSVR, Mount Vernon, WA WAZU, Peoria, Illinois WDRT, Viroqua, WI KPVL Decorah, IA KMEC, Ukiah, CA KOWA, Olympia Washington . CKUW, Manitoba, Canada WHUS, Storrs, CT WMNF HD FM Tampa, Florida WPVM - MAIN-FM Asheville, NC WERU Blue Hill and Bangor, Maine WGOT - Gainesville, Florida. WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y. WWUH, - West Hartford, CT WVJW- Benwood, WV KRFP, Moscow, ID 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 WPRR, Grand Rapids, Michigan WCRS, Columbus, Ohio WSLU, St. Leo, Florida as well as internet stations: KWTF Radio, Bodega Bay CA CPR Metro, NYC Radio Free Radical Radio Free Kansas Radio Veronica, West Point, PA Catalystradio.org, U.K. WXXE Seattle Radical Radio Radio for Peace International Labourstart AmericanFM.org Grateful Dread Public Radio Detour Network, Knoxville, TN KDX Radio, Homeland, North American ======================================== For archived Building Bridges Programs go to our website: www.buildingbridgesradio.org