audio building_bridges Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ****************************** 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. **************************************** 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. ************************************** for more information contact Ken Nash - 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, archived and pod cast at www.wbai.org . Our website is www.buildingbridgesradio.org Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over: 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 as well as internet stations: Radio Veronica, West Point, PA The Journey Radio WXXE Seattle Radical Radio Radio for Peace International Radio Labourstart AmericanFM.org RadioDriftless.org Grateful Dread Public Radio 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! Email knash@igc.org ========================================= For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Building+Bridges For archived of all Building Bridges program go to our new website: http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org William Tabb; Arun Gupta; Ai-Jen Poo; domestic workers; economic stimulus; recession Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ BuildingBridgesNationalStimulatingTheEconomyRecessionHitsDomestic knash@igc.org 2009-01-25 17:48:55 2009-01-25 17:51:18