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This Could be You: The Many Faces of Social Work 
Social workers tell their own stories about the range of work that social work includes.
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What is NASW? 
A 4-minute Tedx Rap “What is Social Work?” by a working social worker is part of the  “Social Work 101,” website containing a historical summary, and contemporary information, about the NASW and particularly the Michigan chapter. 
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NASW News: Dealing with Bullying Behavior 
Social workers discuss methods to deal with cyber-bullying.
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IMF and World Bank are Weapons of War (excerpt) by journalist John Pilger 
This 21 minute historical and current case study report is an excerpt of a 52 minute special report “War by Other Means,” by Australian-British journalist John Pilger. 
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Four Takeaways from IMF Meetings, Washington D.C., The Financial Times 2015 
Participants and financial media observers discuss four themes of the meetings: growth, impact of interest rate “taper-tantrum” on world markets, Greece and Euro-group – in the informal sessions, China and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and U.S. decision not to join that system.
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This is Hell! Live from Nicaragua, Laura Carlsen talks to the women bringing the lucha to the World Bank. 
For Financial Times Weekly, Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas program at the Center for International Policy, speaks with indigenous women about the effects of IMF and World Bank projects on their communities and what large corporations are doing with land purchases in South America. 
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South Africa: Using Fiscal Policy to Address Economic Inequality 
Catriona Purfield, and Gabriela Inchauste, World Bank Senior Economists, discuss post-Apartheid efforts to end economic inequality through fiscal policy dealing with taxes and benefit redistribution. Report includes an interview with South Africans.
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Jane Addams lecture by Dr. John Kayser University of Denver GSSW 
A documentary of the life and work of Jane Addams, from childhood, her college, her inspiration for Hull House, and the settlement movement, her role in the social work profession, in international peace movements, in women’s movements,  in racial justice, and in politics.
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FDR: New Deal - Speech circa March 1933
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt explaining the purpose of the New Deal as it was being proposed.
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LBJ Documentary - "The Great Society"
In this documentary, archival film and illuminating interviews capture President Lyndon Johnson’s oratory and remarkable domestic policy achievements.
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President Reagan on Taxes, Social Security - CNNMoney
A montage of former President Reagan’s well known financial speeches.
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President Obama: Financial Reform Not a Bailout
ABC News broadcast of President Obama speaking to the press as he prepares to meet with a bipartisan Congressional group to discuss the economy.
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The Economist: Why American Wage Growth is so Weak
The Economist radio “In  Other Words,”  explains why America’s unemployment rate is low and rapidly falling by reviewing the impact of The Great Recession and the response of employers.
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A Skeptic and Supporter Debate Healthcare Reform
Ezekiel Emanuel, oncologist and former Obama administration advisor, and Avik Roy, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute debate the healthcare rollout, and how the Affordable Care Out will work in practice. October 2013.
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Barack Obama on Religion and Politics
Presidential Candidate Obama discusses the importance of separation of church and state in a pluralistic society.
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An Economic Reality Check, Economist Tim Jackson
Economist Tim Jackson, economics commissioner on the UK government’s Sustainable Development Commission and Director of RESOLVE, the Research group on Lifestyles, Values, and Environment delivers this Ted Talk challenging economic principles to stop feeding crises and start investing in the future.
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Thomas Friedman Explores American Exceptionalism in the 21st Century
On “The Heat,” Pulitzer Prize winning NY Times Columnist , Thomas Friedman discusses the changing discourse of American Exceptionalism in an interconnected world and his book on the same subject, “That Used to be Us.”
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News Highlights: Faith Leaders Endorse World Bank Group Poverty Goals
Over 30 leaders from major world religions and heads of global faith-based organizations launched a call to action in 2015, to end extreme poverty by 2030, a goal shared by the World Bank Group.  World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim outlines the new initiative.
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The Brian Lehrer Show: Nordic Track to Paradise?
Michael Booth, a journalist living in Denmark, and author of “The Almost Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia,” comments on the reputation of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark and their reputation of being great places to live, and the people among the happiest people on earth, and the impact of economic challenges.
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A Future of Floods and Droughts as Climate Changes
A World Bank Group summary of the effects of a warming world on the poor Middle East, Latin America, and Central Asia, contained in its study “Turn Down the Heat.” The full report is available at:http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/climatechange/publication/turn-down-the-heat-climate-extremes-regional-impacts-resilience
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Somalia and Drought, Crisis in East Africa
From CBC, Michael Weickert, Canada World Vision, Director of Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs, describes the immediate and long-term impact of drought on persons in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
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Who are Monsanto? - And are they really evil?
Truthloader provides an analysis of reasons why, in 2011, Monsanto was voted the most evil corporation in the world by readers of Natural News.  The analysis includes a review of the impact human health related to both the environment and food, bees, proprietary control of food and crops, lobbying, and the contribution of people to the market for genetically modified food.
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Water and Sanitation, A Community-Based Approach
This documentary by Community-Based Health and First Aid (CBHFA) of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, features the story of Paulina Lesse, and the impact on health possible with changes in water and sanitation practices in Timor-Leste told in her own words.
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In California's Fourth Year of Drought, New Regulations and $1 Billion in Relief
In this report, National Public Radio discusses new restrictions on water use in California, the impact on farming, the public response, the different impact on the wealthy and the poorest.
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Google Experiments with Mapping Climate Change
In this report by National Public Radio, Google and The Environmental Defense Fund have teamed up to use algorithms to detect methane leaks in a few U.S. cities in an attempt to map climate change.
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The Story of Medicare: A Timeline
Written and produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation, this video provides a visual timeline of Medicare’s history, including the debate that led to its creation in 1965 and subsequent changes such as: the passage and repeal of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act in the late 198os, the Medicare Modernization Act in 2003, and the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
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Imagining poverty in American culture
English teacher, Dr. John Loonam uses two novels, “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Push” to challenge listeners to imagine then re-imagine how poverty in the United States was defined historically, and in our contemporary of the Great Recession.
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Loyola Marymount University student to graduate despite homelessness, obstacles on Skid Row
On the eve of his college graduation day, Kenneth Chancey, a formerly homeless student tells a local news station his story growing up homeless, pursuing academics as his way out of homelessness, and his goals for his post-college future.
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Crunching the costs and benefits of overtime pay reform
PBS Newshour presents the 2015 proposal of President Obama to update overtime pay rules for U.S. workers to allow “supervisors” below a new threshold to earn overtime pay, with news clips of the President, and a debate between Jared Bernstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Dan Bosch of the National Federation of Independent Business.
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Revitalizing the American dream: Rodney Byrnes
In this Tedx Talk, Rodney Byrnes, Vice President, Real Estate Development at Strategic Capital Partners talks about the need to address poverty systemically through mixed-income housing, sedding of high performing schools to close the education gap, and wrap-around services for families.
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Payday Loans - And Endless Cycles of Debt - Targeted by Federal Watchdog
National Public Radio reports on new rules to be proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to regulate payday lenders and other costly forms of credit available to consumers.
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As Economy Rebounds, Government Still Plays Role in Mortgage Business
National Public Radio reports on the continuing role of the government bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, continued government ownership, and the impact on home buyers of privatizing those mortgage guarantees.
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Combating the Scourge of Sexual Assault
In this CBS Sunday Morning report, the college culture of sexuality, and the impact on young women and young men is discussed through interviews with survivors of sexual assault, as well as a lawyer filing Title IX complaints on behalf of young men found guilty of sexual assault by their schools, and Senator Gillibrand about the “Campus Accountability and Safety Act,” a bill she has co-sponsored.
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Racial Discrimination and Environmental Justice
In this clip from a longer work by Stanley Nelson, the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights reports on its actions in Camden, NJ, which has the second highest cancer rate in New Jersey, and the eighth highest cancer rate in the nation, in fighting the building of another polluting factor by the St. Lawrence Cement Company.
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Tackling irregular migration in the Mediterranean
Council of the European Union (EU) reports on EU efforts to respond to migration of refugees from poverty and war to European shores from North Africa, including external border patrols by FRONTEX, prosecution of human traffickers, and collaboration with sending nations.
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Immigration: The Mexican Dream
In this France 24 News report, the phenomenon of Mexican immigrants returning to Mexico from the U.S. due to the U.S. economic crisis, and anti-immigrant legislation in particular U.S. states is described by the Mexican and Americans Working Together (MATT) foundation through interviews of returning Mexican citizens, their employers, and others.
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Italy's Birth Dearth
A CBS Sunday Morning Mother’s Day report finds the average number of children American women have in their lifetime is remaining fairly steady, at roughly two – hardly enough to outweigh the birth dearth much of the world is experiencing due to economic considerations, and choices available to women.
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Racial Tension Draws Parallels, But Madison is No Ferguson
The Rev. Alex Gee of Madison, and Madison, WI, police chief Mike Koval comment on the response to shooting of 19-year-old Tony Robinson, an unarmed black man, In the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO.
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World Bank: Migrant Money is Key to Development
Mr. Dilip Ratha, lead economist for the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. , a migrant himself, discusses the positive benefits of remittances sent home by international migrants, and argues that these remittances should be encouraged and regulations controlling money sending are unnecessary. He distinguishes how remittances provide aid distinct from any international aid.
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Study: Children Accidently Shoot Someone Every 36 Hours in 2015
According to a study by Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, there have been 79 accidental shootings by children in the first four months of 2015, resulting in 24 deaths and 56 injuries.
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Corporal Punishment in Schools
News report on corporal punishment legal in 21 states, and findings that physical punishment is disproportionately used on certain populations of students.
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Shocking Need: American Kids Go Hungry
ABC News reports on food insecurity and the working poor who do not qualify for government assistance, and yet must use food pantries, non-profit resources, and home gardens to feed their children, as well as the connection between food insecurity and childhood obesity.
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After Students Went to Wage Jihad, Teacher Highlights Youth Radicalization
Teacher and author, Lamya Kaddor, describes the experience of having five former students flee to Syria to join jihadist groups, including her conversations with four of the five students who quickly returned.
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Hidden Voices: School to Prison Pipeline
The Hidden Voices project interviewed youth, teachers, lawyers, and police officers about the school to prison pipeline, and turned those conversations into art in a project called “None of the Above,” and host Frank Stasio talks with some of the artists about their experiences in the “pipeline” including their escape from that experience.
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Transgender Students Learn to Navigate School Halls
Transgender youth, on National Public Radio – Youth Radio discuss the millennial view that gender is fluid and defined on a spectrum through interviews with young people and their parents about their experience.
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Why Americans Need Health Reform
In this animation, the impact of health care related costs on employees, small businesses, and the overall health of American workers is described using basic examples.
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The Doctor who Fights Public Health Crises
In this CBS Sunday Monday report, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health discusses his work and challenges fighting infectious diseases since 1984, including SARS, AIDS, and Ebola, among other diseases leading to public health crises.
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Play It by ear: Baseball for the blind
“Beep Baseball,” which began 40 years ago, consists of visually impaired and blind players who play and compete in baseball leagues in the U.S., Taiwan, and the Dominican Republic.
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News Hightlights: How Human Behavior Affects Health Decisions
Kenneth Leonard, Health Specialist, discussed the World Bank 2015 World Development Report and why people make the health decisions they do. Focus Tanzania.
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Communicating the Right Message about Ebola
One year after the ebola outbreak began in West Africa, Adolphus Scott of UNICEF and Jana Telfer of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) discuss the vital role of public messaging in fighting the disease.
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10 Common Warning Signs of a Mental Health Condition in Teens and Young Adults
A public service announcement by the National Alliance on Mental Health Illness (NAMI)
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Robert McDonald: Cleaning up the VA
In November 2014, the incoming Secretary of Veteran Affairs, a former Proctor & Gamble CEO, discusses his plan to reorganize the troubled Veteran Affairs agency for his fellow veterans.
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What is Mental Health Parity?
Ronald Honberg, Director of Policy and Legal Affairs, National Alliance on Mental Health Illness (NAMI), describes the NAMI view of the current status of mental health parity, and what is authentically needed.  Full report may be downloaded at: http://www.nami.org/About-NAMI/Publications-Reports/Public-Policy-Reports/A-Long-Road-Ahead
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The ARC: HealthMeet Video
The HealthMeet Program of the Arc of the United States (ARC)  offers resources for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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A Crime Against Humanity
Scot Pelley files a graphic report on the 2013 sarin gas attack in Syria U.S. intelligence killed more than 1,400 civilians, in an area already ravaged by poverty and hunger from long-term shelling, leaving families shattered, children orphaned.
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Home sweet home: Finding housing for mentally ill adults
Mark Heyrman, University of Chicago Law School professor, and Debbie Bretag, executive director of  Housing Options, discuss the use of for-profit nursing homes, or “Institutions for Mental Disease” (IMD), a novel approach  in Illinois, and the pending process to offer alternative living arrangements after a court action requiring that alternatives be offered.
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Mentally Ill are Often Locked up in Jails that Can't Help
This profile includes interviews in Cook County Jail with the jail mental health administrators, staff and inmates including a description of the scope and limitations of the mental health services available to inmates.
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Older People are Happier
Laura Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity shares her work and insights on the effects of wellbeing on l ongevity.
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Prichard's pension crisis may come to you
CBS News Reporter examines the story of Alfred and Jackie Arnold,  a retired fire-fighter and police officer  in Prichard, Alabama,  who are receiving no pension checks from the funds to which they contributed, in the context of the financial situation facing larger municipalities and state governments.
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Global Lessons on Long-Term Care
This PBS NewsHour report describes government funded or employer funded long-term health-care options and social services for aging populations in Germany, Finland, Taiwan.
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Using Medicaid dollars to expand long-term care choices
A shift in long-term care from nursing home living to more home-like settings uses Medicaid waivers to give low-income senior, as well as younger adults with disabilities, to arrange the living arrangement and services they want for living the life they want to live.
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Aging in America: Crisis in long-term care
CBS Sunday Morning provides a report on the options for seniors who are “in the middle,” those not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid and not rich enough to pay for private insurance long-term care options, featuring interviews with aging seniors and their families.
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Cancer Spans a Construction Boom in Cleveland
As baby-boomers age, cancer becomes a more likely disease that will require treatment leading to unexpected economic and community planning.
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Helping Low-Income Seniors Build a Social Web Online
In the U.S., people over 65 are one of the fastest-growing groups to go online. Social media usage works to reduce loneliness, and community training programs fill the gap in closing the learning gap in social media use.
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Saving for Retirement: How Much do You Need?
Fewer than half of Americans have ever tried to calculate how much they will need for retirement.  Cindy Hounsell, President of the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement offers some formulas for calculating what people should be doing in anticipation of a longer life.
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Tapping California springs and aquifiers, bottled water companies face little scrutiny
In this series of interviews with forest biologists, Nestlé plant operators, U.S. Forest Service worksers, and community activists explain how bottled water companies are permitted to continue to take water from aquifers on expired permits during a historic drought.
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Lax regulations allows Nestlé free B.C. water to sell back to consumers
Community members, conservationists and Nestlé spokespeople express their views about the British Columbia government  lack of water regulations, which allows companies to use and resell millions of liters of water without paying a cent to the province.
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This is Gladys
See what the work of The Water Project means to children and families in Sierra Leone.
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Common Ground 521 - Mississippi Water Walkers, Sharon Day
Ojibwe Elder, Sharon Day, Water Walker, shares her stories of praying for clean water in North America.  Midewin women walk each year, carrying clean water from the springs that feed rivers, to the mouth of rivers where pollutants have overridden the water in order to remind the Water of how to return to her pure state.
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A Former Child Soldier Finds Escape, Heaven through His Music
In his own words, a former child soldier from Sudan tells the story of finding his way to life as a musician in Canada – including the challenges, the role of the International Criminal Court, and help he got along the way.
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Restorative Justice: School Hopes Talking It Out Keeps Kids from Dropping Out
In Ypsilanti, MI, a high school uses restorative practices to teach young people how to take responsibility for their actions and make it right.
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A community in transition: Syracuse’s Somali-Bantu refugees need literacy for citizenship test
The process for resettled refugees to re-establish citizenship is long.  In the United States this involves s well as an oral civics exam, all in English.  In their own words, refugees in Somali-Bantu refugee community in Syracuse, New York, tell of the challenges of the process when they did not have access to formal education in their host country, and are learning to read and write for the first time in a foreign language.
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Economic Analysis: How State Budgets are Breaking U.S. Schools
Bill Gates, founder and former CEO of Microsoft, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, outlines how state budgets and accounting strategies that disguise the true cost of health care,  pensions, worsening deficits, and the negative impact on services for the young, particularly education.
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Majora Carter Talks at Ted about Sustainable Living
Majora Carter is the MacArthur winning, founder of Sustainable South Bronx, shares her views about solutions to organize holistic community development, sponsoring projects that create jobs, and protect the environment, and the cost of inaction.
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Three Principles for a New Wall Street: Don Tapscott at TEDxWallStreet
Don Tapscott, one of the world's leading authorities and advisers on innovation, media and the economic and social impact of technology, sets forth his re-imagined principles for Wall Street and a global economy
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Voices: Murder victim family members speak out against the death penalty
Members of California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, a grassroots coalition of over 700 murder victim family members who support alternatives to the death penalty, speak about their preference for a less punitive response to harm.
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No Fracking In New York? That's OK With Pennsylvania
While the state of New York bans hydraulic fracturing due to lack of scientific information about environmental concerns regarding harm to the drinking water, Pennsylvania supports fracturing as economic benefit.
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Shedding some light on the murky business of small arms trafficking
Hugh Griffiths, an arms trafficking expert with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, discusses the relationship between the legal and illicit gun market, the role of United Nations regulations, and the impact of legal exporting regulations from the United States as well as other country regulations.
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