News & Public Affairs
Why is the economy taking so long to recover? An interview with economist Ayse Somersan
06/06/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday)
Tags: Ayse Somersan, unemployment, federal deficit, stimulus spending, Iraq war, military spending, taxes, Afghanistan War, Medicare for all, Social Security
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Last week the nation's unemployment rate edged up a tenth of a percent to 9.1%. Why is this recession lingering? Here to talk about is is Professor Emeritus of Economics At The University Of Wisconsin-Madison Ayse Somersan, Ph.D.
1 commentsRich Templin of the Florida AFL-CIO on the new state budget
06/02/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Rich Templin, Florida AFL-CIO, Rick Scott, Florida budget, unemployment, state pension, privatization, merit pay, education, spending, labor
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Today we'll talk about the new state budget signed last Thursday by Governor Rick Scott. Our guest is Rich Templin, Ph.D., Legislative and Political Director of the Florida AFL-CIO.
The governor signed the state budget last Thursday at a private ceremony in The Villages and we're still kind of going through it and figuring out exactly what the budget means for the future of Florida and here to help us deconstruct the budget is Rich Te...
3 commentsShould State Legislature reduce benefits for unemployed?
05/06/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: unemployment, National Employment Law Project, George Wentworth
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Today is the last day of the legislative session and efforts to cut unemployment benefits are still unresolved.
The House plan would reduce the state’s current 26 weeks of benefits to 20. The Senate wants to keep benefits at 26 - only when unemployment hit 12 percent.
The current 11.1 percent jobless rate would allow for 24 weeks under the Senate plan.
A non-profit group that advocates for worker's rights warns that the propos...
1 commentsHomelessness, panhandling and unemployment
02/22/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: panhandling, homelessness, unemployment
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll talk about panhandling, homelessness and unemployment.
Our guest is Sara Romeo with Tampa Crossroads. She is working to insure that female vets are able to access services that will help them remain independent. This employment program was funded by the Dept. of Labor specifically to assist honorably discharge homeless female veterans. But she also works on ending homelessness and will testify this Thursday befor...
1 commentsAnalysis of the President's State of the Union Speech
01/26/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Wednesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: SOTU, Obama, Jonathan Alter, The Promise, war in Afghanistan, taxes, deficits, unemployment, health care, gun laws
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll analyze President Obama's State of the Union speech with your phone calls and analysis from Jonathan Alter who is author of the book The Promise (Simon and Scuster) about the first year of the Obama presidency and national affairs columnist for Newsweek and an analyst for NBC and MSNBC.
1 commentsLocal charity experiencing high volume of need, not donations, ahead of holidays listen
11/24/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Metropolitan Ministries, homelessness, unemployment, Tampa, holiday charity, poverty, food
Food pantries across the Tampa Bay area are experiencing shortages just ahead of the holiday weekend. One Tampa nonprofit is experiencing a swell of people in need this year, including former donors and volunteers.
The rows of donated non-perishables are set up like grocery store aisles. Here, those who’ve signed up with Metropolitan Ministries’ holiday food program weave their shopping carts throughout rows of cereal, pasta, and canned goods. Katherine from Tampa is poring over boxed grai...
Be the first to commentThe Great American Teach-In aims to showcase careers despite pallid job market listen
11/18/10 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Education, Pinellas County Schools, economy, unemployment, jobs
It’s not often that you’ll find an artist, a banker, and an archaeologist talking shop under one roof. Today at schools throughout Pinellas County, the Great American Teach-In brought professionals from a broad range of fields into classrooms to teach students about life on the career path. This comes at a time when many students are personally experiencing the ravages of a gutted job market.
Any generation that came of age after World War II but before the millennium was brought up with t...
Be the first to commentShould Unemployment benefits Be Extended?
11/16/10 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: unemployment benefits, AFL-CIO, Aaron Carmella, labor, unemployment
The Hill reports this week:
Be the first to comment"With lawmakers set to return next week for a lame-duck session, uncertainty is looming over the continuation of emergency unemployment benefits as time is running out before the latest extension expires at the end of November.
"Congressional Democratic leaders have yet to formulate a plan how to proceed with the expiring extension with the debate on the issue expected to take center stage when lawmakers return next week.
"If lawmakers don't act by No...
Extension of unemployment benefits passes Congress - Castor reacts listen
07/22/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Unemployment, kathy castor
Before the House passed the extension of unemployment benefits this afternoon, we asked U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor for her reaction to the imminent legislation.
Be the first to comment"Well to all of our neighbors who have struggled in this worst recession in our life time, finally the U.S. Senate was able to muster the vote to pass the unemployment compensation bill. The house will take it up today and President Obama will sign it right away. But these are people who have payed into the insurance, the unemployment...
WMNF layoffs taken back listen
06/30/10 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: wmnf, layoffs, jobs, Unemployment, Media
Last week we reported that this station, WMNF 88.5 FM, was forced to lay off three employees because of a severe budget shortfall. But shortly before broadcast tonight, station manager Jim Bennett announced that because of voluntary staff benefit reductions and a generous donation unrelated to the layoffs, Bennett had notified the three employees that the layoffs were retracted.
43 comments"Good news has come ...
