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GRITtv: Sherrod Brown: Working Families Still Hurting
"People are still looking at and facing too much pain," says Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who joined Bernie Sanders for part of his eight and a half hour speech against giving tax breaks to millionaires. Brown notes that while the compromise which eventually passed gives some short-term help to American workers, but that the economy will not begin to really recover until Washington turns its focus to jobs--and not just any jobs, but reinvigorated manufacturing jobs. Senator Brown joins us from Washington via Skype to discuss what he sees as the most important priorities for a shrunken Democratic majority in the Senate in the next session of Congress, and particularly why a focus on our trade policy is long overdue.
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"People are still looking at and facing too much pain," says Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who joined Bernie Sanders for part of his eight and a half hour speech against giving tax breaks to millionaires. Brown notes that while the compromise which eventually passed gives some short-term help to American workers, but that the economy will not begin to really recover until Washington turns its focus to jobs--and not just any jobs, but reinvigorated manufacturing jobs.Senator Brown joins us from Washington via Skype to discuss what he sees as the most important priorities for a shrunken Democratic majority in the Senate in the next session of Congress, and particularly why a focus on our trade policy is ; long overdue."The American people were pioneers again, not by going west but by going into debt," says economist Rick Wolff of the last 30 years of our economy. While wages stayed low and infrastructure, education and energy investments bottomed out, Americans leveraged everything on credit cards and loans to keep afloat. And now, despite record Wall Street bonuses and holiday shopping, the economy is still built on fundamental flaws.Rick Wolff and Jeff Madrick join us in studio for a year-end conversation about the economy--looking forward to 2011, what can we expect? And more importantly, what will it take to really change the shaky foundations on which our economy rests?And finally, John Fugelsang just wants to take a moment to wish ‘happy holidays’ to all our friends angry about the ‘war on Christmas.’
GRITtv: Mark Hertsgaard and Sarah Laskow: Finding Louisiana's Methadone
Even Louisiana's greenest are against a moratorium on offshore drilling. This may seem absurd considering the seemingly irreversible devastation that BP's carelessness has inflicted on the land, but the Nation's Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard claims that oil to Louisiana is like heroin to an addict. It would be catastrophic to go cold-turkey but it's high time we started the weaning process. Well, what is Louisiana's - and our nation's - methadone? Media Consortium Environmental Blogger, Sarah Laskow joins Mark to discuss Louisiana's green energy potential and whether or not we can hope for any progress on energy policy on the Hill.
GRITtv: Taking the Mystery Out of Solar Panels
Environmental journalist Karl Grossman gets the dirt on solar energy from Dean Hapshe of Majestic Son & Sons Solar Energy. Since the Reagan years, when government tax credits for installing solar panels were killed, we've come a long way as far as efficiency and costs are concerned. In New York, on top of the federal tax credit recently passed in the stimulus bill, you can get a state and local tax credit for installing the panels -- and then it's possible to produce more than enough energy to run your whole home. Learn more in this video exclusive for GRITtv.
GRITtv: Nov. 12, 2009
Why aren't reporters asking the real questions? That's what our media panelist Rose Aguilar asked today, and it's a valid question. Rose Aguilar, John R. MacArthur, Dan Gross and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss this and other media questions in our Thursday segementt. "Yoga is slow medicine but it is medicinal in character," Deirdre Summerbell says. She's the founder of Project Air, where she uses yoga to help women and girls in Rwanda, survivors of the genocide, reconnect with their bodies and heal their spirits. Summerbell joined us in the GRITtv studio to talk about her project and her plans to expand it into the Congo and other areas of the world, like Gaza and Afghanistan. And more news.
