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Orozco joins guest host Ed Ott, a longtime labor activist, and Tahir Duckett of the AFL-CIO's Working America to talk about youth unemployment, why it matters, and how it connects to the student activism springing up around the country. Students across California--and the country--held protests on March 4 against budget cuts that are cutting courses and hiking tuition at state universities. In these videos from New America Media, students and protesters speak out about the state's overspending on war and prisons and underspending on education. Carrie Brunk, executive director of New York Jobs With Justice, joins Ed Ott in the studio to talk about bailouts, corporate subsidies, and why those aren't helping working people on the ground. Brave New Films points out Rush Limbaugh's hypocrisy, and you can join their group on Facebook to help fight right-wing smears. Brandon Jourdan and David Martinez were both held in jail for over 20 hours after filming this footage from a student protest in Oakland on March 4, where students took over an exit ramp on the highway before being rounded up by baton-wielding riot police. Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, tells the Huffington Post Investigative Fund about waste of reconstruction funds in Afghanistan similar to that in Iraq--some $51 billion has been allocated to rebuild and stabilize, but tracking those funds proves next to impossible. Finally, in this latest clip from our friends at the Tactical Technology Collective, we see how personal stories can be used to reach people about issues they may not have been concerned about before.