Economy/Labor/Biz

On Today’s Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Barbara Ehrenreich, one of the country's foremost investigative journalists, to talk about her newly launched Economic Hardship Reporting Project to help move the crisis of poverty and economic disparities to the center of the national conversation.

Guests:

Barbara Ehrenreich, acclaimed journalist, author of best selling book, several books, including Smile Or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World; Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America: and Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

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Economic Hardship Reporting Project

On Monday morning from 10 to Noon, tune to 91.7FM for two hours of critical conversation about rising poverty and inequality in the U.S., its effects on our society and democracy, and how we can take action. 

At 10am on Your Call, Rose Aguilar welcomes Barbara Ehrenreich, one of the country's foremost investigative journalists, to talk about her newly-launched Economic Hardship Reporting Project.  Then at 11am, hear the speeches given by Tavis Smiley & Cornel West when they were at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland in April to talk about their new book The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto.

On a May evening, the Pinole Seals Swim Club hits the water for their first night of practice in the season that almost wasn’t. This is a popular pool that Pinole resident Kiki Kaski says hundreds of people use every year.

“All the camps in the area send their kids to this pool, the YMCA, Special Olympics uses this pool,” says Kaski. “You go there and you get this feeling like, ‘It’s summer!’ And it feels good.”

That feeling of summer costs about $65,000 a year to maintain. Right now, that’s money that the city doesn’t have. So last fall, when the Pinole City Council was looking for ways to balance this year’s budget, cutting the swim center was on the list.