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Wednesday February 18, 2009

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10:00Reducing Home Foreclosures

Wednesday, President Obama announces administration plans to stem the nation's rising tide of foreclosures. Differing views on what may or may not work, and what's in the taxpayers' interest.

Guests

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and co-author of "Social Security: The Phony Crisis" (Portfolio)

Steve O'Connor, senior vice president of government affairs, Mortgage Bankers Association

Julia Gordon, senior policy counsel, Center for Responsible Lending

Cena Valladolid, CEO of Consumer Credit Counseling Service, based in Las Vegas

11:00Yiyun Li : "The Vagrants" (Random House)

An award-winning, Beijing-born writer presents her debut novel. It is based on a true story of the public execution in nineteen-seventy-nine of a young woman who served in the Red Guard before denouncing communism.

Guests

Yiyun Lee, author of the award-winning short story collection,"A Thousand Years of Good Prayers."

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