Tag Archives: Desarrollo Económico
Helping Families Help Each Other.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 PROGRAM # 8567 12:00 PM PT Helping Families Help Each Other. Contrary to prevailing myths, corporations and the rich are not the only ones that create jobs and grow the economy, and low-income families are not takers from society. The poorest neighborhoods do create jobs, but those efforts get no recognition. In […]
Combating Slavery in the Fields. Domestic Workers in Mexico Win Protections. Organic Farming Boom.
MONDAY, MARCH 4 PROGRAM # 8555 12:00 PM PT Combating Slavery in the Fields. A conversation with state Sen. Rebecca Saldaña, about two bills she is spearheading in Washington state’s legislature: one to ban discrimination based on citizenship or immigration status, in areas such as employment, services and housing, and another one to help combat […]
Fairness in the Fields. Also, The Call for a Green New Deal.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 PROGRAM # 8542 12:00 PM PT Fairness in the Fields. Democratic US legislators introduced the Fairness for Farm Workers Act to end the exclusion of farm workers from federal labor protections such as overtime pay and minimum wage. At the same time, advocates in New York push for a state law granting […]
Immigration Edition.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 PROGRAM # 8541 12:00 PM PT Immigration Edition. The lawyer of 25 undocumented former Trump employees charge the president with criminal conspiracy to violate immigration and trafficking laws and a US legislator urges the FBI to investigate the case and protect the witnesses. Also, as hundreds of Central American migrants arrive to […]
Self-Driving Cars: Caution. Also, Basic Income for All.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7 PROGRAM # 8538 12:00 PM PT Self-Driving Cars: Caution. The arrival of self-driving robot cars and trucks is being praised as a tremendous technological advancement that is radically changing transportation. However, a civil rights group warns that without rules for the industry, this technological revolution will bring hell to people of color […]
Los Angeles Teachers Strike: Third Day. Also, Universal Basic Income vs Universal Basic Assets. Also, Financial Literacy and the Poor.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 PROGRAM # 8522 12:00 PM PT Los Angeles Teachers Strike: Third Day. With negotiations stalled, more than 30 thousand teachers in Los Angeles continue their strike, considered as the largest of its kind in the nation’s history. Tens of thousands demonstrate dressed in red in the city’s downtown. A top union official […]
A Few Thousand Dollars.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27 PROGRAM # 8508 12:00 PM PT A Few Thousand Dollars. An expert in asset-building says all you need to begin wealth is just a few thousand dollars. If invested in education, entrepreneurship, and homes, that small nest egg can lead to economic development for the families and society at large. To build […]
Farmworker Rights: A Forum.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 PROGRAM # 8424 12:00 PM PT Farmworker Rights: A Forum. Farmworkers in California may be among the highest paid in the fields of the country. Still, they work long hours, in low-paid jobs, and often suffer from wage theft and work-related health problems. Recent ICE raids have worsened the situation in the […]
Changing of the Guard at the UFW.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 PROGRAM # 8416 12:00 PM PT Changing of the Guard at the UFW. Teresa Romero was elected to succeed Arturo Rodriguez as president of the United Farm Workers, becoming the first Latina and first immigrant in leading a national labor union in the US. In this special Labor Day edition, the outgoing […]
“Eating NAFTA.”
MONDAY, AUGUST 27 PROGRAM # 8411 12:00 PM PT “Eating NAFTA.” As a new NAFTA agreement is in the works, and negotiators from the US and Mexico reach a preliminary agreement, a scholar examines the costs to Mexico’s food and public health of 25 years under NAFTA. In the new book “Eating NAFTA,” the social […]
