Today we look at low-income individuals and the social programs that serve them to try to figure out once and for all if poor people are human or not and whether they should be helped or thrown to the wolves for our entertainment.
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: SNAP: Myths vs. Facts - @takepart TV - Air Date: 12-02-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Wax & Wire - Night Bats - EP
Ch. 4: Act 2: Defining Economic Problems In All The Wrong Places - @jimmy_dore Show - Air Date 12-27-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: I Wish I Knew (Logo Remix) - Gildas Kitsuné Season's Greetings Mix (The Merry Christmas Edition)
Ch. 6: Act 3: Fox News: Welfare for Me, Not For Thee! - @majorityfm - Air Date: 10-11-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Hell=Other People (Single Version) - Hell=Other People - EP
Ch. 8: Act 4: The coded-language demonization of social programs - @CitizenRadio - Air Date: 1-13-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Minnie The Moocher - Cab Calloway / Minnie The Moocher
Ch. 10: Act 5: The coded-language demonization of social programs - @CitizenRadio - Air Date: 1-13-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Hungry Like the Wolf - Greatest
Ch. 12: Act 6: Economist Richard Wolff: Does Government Healthcare & Welfare Hurt Economies? - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 11-13-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Capitalism - Little Planet
Ch. 14: Act 7: The GOPs poverty agenda - @allinwithchris - Air Date: 01-07-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Poverty (Stereo) - Bobby Bland: The Anthology
Ch. 16: Act 8: Getting perspective from Europe on how screwed we are - @fakedansavage - Air Date: 8-20-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: No Champagne Socialist - Jackson Square
Ch. 18: Act 9: Demanding Tuition-Free Public College Education - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 19: Song 9: Activism - The Poet
Ch. 20: Act 10: A Tip For Christian Tippers - Real Time With @billmaher - Air Date 11-10-13
Voicemails
Ch. 21: Time for actions on the TPP - Jamie in Cincinnati
Ch. 22: Actual definitions vs popular usages - Krissy from Kansas
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 23: Final comments on systems, shifting baselines and the definitions of racism
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
ACTIVISM:
Make Public College Tuition Free, CREDO petition
Sources/further reading:
Tuition-Free Public Education Is Possible. Demand it. via Truthout
State by State: Student Loan Debt
Ny Sen. Gillibrand Pushes Student Loan Refinance
Time To Bring Bankruptcy Back for Student Loan Debt via Gawker
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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