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Tampa MoveOn protesters to Sen. Rubio: "Jobs not cuts" listen
08/10/11 Josh HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: jobs, spending, debt, MoveOn, protest, taxes, taxes in countries with universal health care, Civilian Conservation Corps, Marco Rubio
Jobs, not cuts, was the message of protesters today, outside Congressional offices across the country. About two dozen activists protested outside Senator Marco Rubio’s office near USF-Tampa.
The progressive nonprofit advocacy group Moveon.org called on it’s supporters to flood local legislative offices today to ask congressional...
Be the first to commentCongress reaches a deal to raise the debt limit, but will it pass a vote? listen
08/01/11 Joshua Lee HoltonWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: debt, debt ceiling, budget, budget cuts, Barack Obama, FCAN, Marco Rubio, Bill Nelson
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders from both major parties have come to an agreement on a proposed budget deal that would cut trillions of federal dollars from the national budget over the next decade. The deal will increase the borrowing limit, preventing the government from defaulting on it’s debt for the first time in history. The measure would extend the current $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by up to $2.4 trillion a...
Be the first to commentObama says he will not sign deal to temporarily raise borrowing limit listen
07/11/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Barack Obama, John Boehner, debt
President Barack Obama says he will continue to push congressional lawmakers to reach the largest deal possible to cut government spending and raise the nation's borrowing limit.
Obama says he knows his call for a large deal faces resistance. House Speaker John Boehner has said a smaller deal stands a better chance of passing on Capitol Hill. But the president insisted a full deal must pass now and he won’t accept a temporary agreement.
Be the first to comment"I will not sign a 30-day or a 60-day or a 90-day...
Obama to meet with Congress this weekend for debt negotiations listen
07/07/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: debt, debt ceiling, Barack Obama
President Barack Obama says lawmakers of both major political parties agree on the importance of raising the debt limit by August 2. The President says he will convene lawmakers on Sunday to get down to the hard bargaining that's necessary to get a deal done.
Be the first to comment“I want to emphasize that nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. And the parties are still far apart on a wide range of issues. But, again, I thought that all the leaders here came in a spirit of compromise, in a spiri...
The impending collapse of the middle class
07/08/08 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Middle class, credit crisis, debt, social safety net
Good afternoon, welcome to Radioactivity, I’m Rob Lorei.
Coming up today a powerful talk by Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren about the financial risks facing America’s middle class. But first a listener comment about last Thursday’s program. We got into another discussion about a possible attack by the U.S. against Iran. Here’s what one listener had to say.
Coming up next a speech by Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor. Warren writes that “the American middle-class family that on...
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