Equal Time with Anthony Pollina, Carl Etnier, & Traven

Jared Bernstein on Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed (and Other unsolved Economic Mysteries)
The issues driving Pollina's run for governor
Ben Scotch: On a legislative initiative to stop the VT Guard from being redeployed to Iraq

An accessible explanation of what happened to working Americans during the past couple of decades, with a prescription for how to repair the damage.

David Sirota talks about the issues he explores in his new book, "The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington"

Prof. Bill Grover and David Finkel, editor of Against the Current magazine, discuss electoral politics, real change, and social movements today.

Fred Azcarate, Voice@Work director for AFL-CIO, explains the decline of the middle class in the face of the employers' offensive against workers freedom of association. Workers rights are human rights. The campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act.

Amjad Al-Jawhary of the Iraq Freedom Congress Working For a Democratic, Secular and Progressive Alternative to both the US Occupation and Political Islam in Iraq

economist Jack Rasmus, author of THE WAR AT HOME: THE CORPORATE OFFENSIVE FROM RONALD REAGAN TO GEORGE W. BUSH on "Is the Economic Crisis Over - or Just Beginning?"

Economist Robert Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute on the relative impacts of military spending vs. public investment on our economy and job creation

Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin on their new book,Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Towards Social Justice. Joined by VT workers Center's James Haslam.

Longshoremen shut down 29 ports to protest the war. Bay Area longshore leader Jack Heyman explains. Jobs with Justice spokesman Paul Bigman in Seattle describes this historic action. Vermont labor activists celebrate May Day and solidarize with longshore action.

Earl Mungeon, Vermont IBM worker, and Alliance@IBM/CWA coordinator Lee Conrad hit management's latest firings of 180 at Essex Junction plant,more nationwide, and impact on communities.

VPIRG’s James Moore on need for funding all-fuels efficiency and a comprehensive energy plan

Teresa Ghilarducci, the nation's leading authority on the economics of retirement, discusses her book "WHEN I'M SIXTY-FOUR: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them" about the retirement crisis and proposing a plan to guarantee retirement security for every working citizen.

Suzanne Gordon, nursing expert and co-author of the new book, Safety in Numbers: Nurse to Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care and Jen Henry, a working nurse and President of the nurses union at Fletcher Allen Health Care discuss the importance of safe nurse to patient Ratios and the fight for quality health care.

Jack Rasmus on the Deepening Financial and Economic Crisis: where its going and its causes in political policies of the past 30 years. Economist Jack Rasmus, author of The War at Home: The Corporate Offensive from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush and two forthcoming books. Website: http://www.kyklosproductions.com/posts/index.php?p=69

Policy analyst Doug Hoffer reviews the latest report on Vermont's economy. Joined by state Rep. Chris Pearson, chair of the Progressive Caucus - who served on the House Government Operations committee.

Amanda Logan, co-author of a Center for American Progress report, “America's Middle Class Still Losing Ground” talks about the Collapse of the Middle Class,and what we can do to turn that around.

Thomas James Hermann, an anti-war Iraq vet running for U.S. House of Representatives hits cost of the war and politics as usual.

John Bloch, Progressive Party candidate for State Senate for Washington County, speaks out on the issues: healthcare and real community economic development.

David Kusnet, author of "Love the work, hate the job: Why America's best workers are unhappier than ever," makes a case that America's workers, including high-tech professionals, want to do their jobs right, and they want to do them well, and what they need is more freedom in the workplace. The way to achieve those ends is organizing a union.

Ed Stanak, president of the state employees unit representing over 4,000 state employees hits the policies that are resulting in layoffs, cuts in essential social services, and deepening Vermont's recession. Joined by Anthony Pollina, arguing for alternative policies to create jobs and pull us out of the downward spiral caused by "conservative" hostility to government that serves working families.

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Jack Hoffman, senior policy analyst with the Public Assets Institute speaks out on the administration's proposed $32 million in cuts. He urges that the public be given services impact statements, and asks, "In the bigger picture, what kind of state do we want to be in five or ten years?. We're not having that conversation. I'm betting most Vermonters don't want to see their roads continue to deteriorate."

Ellen Garneau, Progressive Party candidate for State Rep from Pittsford and Sudbury, speaks out on why we need a Vermont economy that works for all. She hits the Rutland-area transportation cuts, outlines an energy plan that would boost Vermont's economy, and says its time to get serious about universal health care, fair taxation based on ability to pay, and making sure people don't freeze this winter.

Jack Rasmus, economist and author of many articles on the U.S. economy, shares his analysis of how the real economy is accelerating into a deep recession behind the intensifying financial crisis and ‘Banking Panic of 2008′ events of September-October.

Economist Jack Rasmus explains the causes of the current economic crisis, explaining why this is no ordinary recession.