Tuesday February 26, 2008
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Guest host: Frank Sesno
With primaries in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont coming up next week, Senators Clinton and Obama are trying to highlight their economic policy proposals for voters hit hard by the housing crisis and job losses: A look at their proposals and those of presumptive Republican nominee Senator John McCain.
John Maggs, reporter for The National Journal
Mary Jacoby, political and investigative reporter, Wall Street Journal
Jared Bernstein, a senior fellow and director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute and author of "All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy"
Stephen Moore, member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board and former President of the Club for Growth
Guest host: Frank Sesno
In 2005 an American nun was murdered in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil. For forty years she worked on behalf of the poor, the landless, and the forest. The life and death of Sister Dorothy Stang.
Binka Le Breton, journalist and cofounder/director of the Iracambi Research Center in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil. Her books include "Voices from the Amazon," "A Land to Die For," and Trapped."
Marguerite Hohm (Home), younger sister of Sister Dorothy Stang