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This week on CounterSpin: Corporate media have been declaring organized labor moribund—sometimes abetting efforts to kill it—for many years now. But more than 30,000 public school teachers in Los Angeles, on strike with overwhelming community support, would suggest you ought not believe everything you read. We’ll hear about the LA teachers strike, and competing visions for public education, from Kent Wong, director of the UCLA Labor Center and vice president of the California Federation of Teachers.
Transcript: ‘It Is a Disgrace That Our Public Schools Are So Poorly Funded’
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Also on the show: The Trump White House is trying to bring that whole “breaking with democratic norms” thing to the issue of Medicaid: Congress disapproved of plans to shrink the program that helps millions of children, elderly, and people with disabilities and serious health conditions. So the Trump administration reportedly wants to push through cuts by executive action. Whether or not that can happen, it’s a clear sign that Medicaid remains a target, and we’ll talk about what that means with Rebecca Vallas, vice president of the Poverty to Prosperity Program at the Center for American Progress, and host of the podcast Off-Kilter.
Transcript: ‘When You Take Healthcare Away From People, People Die’
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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at coverage of attorney general nominee William Barr.
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Thank you Janine for the rant on William Barr, but you omitted Torture, which he likes.
Always cutting edge reporting Janine.
How many tons of heroin , meth and cocaine some tumbling across our borders each and every year ! The Border Agents
are very valient , but obviously the Border is NOT secure. 118 politicians in Mexico were murdered by cartel members before the last election .
Mexico is under siege . How many more of our young people have to die or be addicted before WE DO SOMETHING
ABOUT IT AND CLOSE THE BORDER .
This is NOT a political issue. It doesn’t matter what you think about Trump . This is a crisis and has been for decades . Congress , are you listening ?