What's it like to live on food stamps?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about who is living on food stamps and how they are making ends meet. 15% of Americans receive food stamps, which allocates an average of $4 per day. And the number of people relying on food stamp programs has risen with the recession. So how does this system work? Can you stay healthy on $4 a day? Join us at 10 or email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you're on food stamps, how are you meeting your needs? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and You.

Guests:
Paul Ash, executive director of the San Francisco Food Bank

Click to Listen: What's it like to live on food stamps?

Media Roundtable

On today's Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of the payroll tax extension, and the renewal of unemployment benefits, which both expire at the end of the month. We'll also discuss coverage of the eurozone crisis. We'll be joined by The Huffington Post's Arthur Delany, ProPublica's Dafna Linzer, and the Globe and Mail's Eric Reguly joins us from Rome. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Eric Reguly, European business correspondent for The Globe and Mail

Arthur Delaney, reporter for The Huffington Post, and author of A People's History of the Great Recession

Dafna Linzer, senior reporter for ProPublica

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

What's next for the Occupy Movement?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to organizers and demonstrators about their visions for the future of the Occupy movement. A week after Oakland's General Strike, what questions do you have about tactics, outreach, leadership, property destruction, and the overall message? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Whether you're participating or watching the movement with interest, what impact is it having, and what will it take to keep the momentum going? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Melanie Butler, occupier at Occupy Wall Street
Christoff Lopaur, occupier at Occupy Oakland
Karen Ford, occupier at Occupy Monterey


Click to Listen: What's next for the Occupy Movement?

What's it like for children growing up poor?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about increasing number of children who are living in poverty. According to US Census Bureau 16.4 million children live in poverty. So what is the day-to-day reality of young people living below the poverty line? Join us live at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are the long term effects of poverty on children? And how they could be fixed? It's Your Call, with Shirin Sadeghi, and you.

Guests:

Alice O'Connor, Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History

Donny Lumpkin, youth reporter with New America Media

Valerie Klinker, a content producer at New America Media

Click to Listen: What's it like for children growing up poor?

What is the future of the U.S. economy?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with two economists about the economic situation in the United States. President Obama has outlined his job plan. He is also proposing to raise taxes on millionaires as part of his deficit reduction proposal. What needs to be done to create more jobs? Join us live at 10 or send us an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What concerns you the most about the U.S. economy and its future? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Jeff Madrick, an economist and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books

Sylvia Allegretto, a labor economist and deputy chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley

Click to Listen: <a href="http://a4.g.akamai.net/7/4/27043/v0001/kalw.download.akamai.com/27043/YourCall/092011yc.mp3">What is the future of the U.S. economy?</a>

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the latest Census Bureau data showing that the US poverty rate rose to 15.1% in 2010, the highest rate in 50 years. One in six Americans is now living in poverty. Who is covering the poor? We'll also talk about the Taliban attacks in Afghanistan. We'll be joined by the Sacramento Bee's Phillip Reese, the Huffington Post's Arthur Delaney, and independent journalist Anna Badkhen joins us from Kabul, Afghanistan. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

 Guests:
Phillip Reese, staff reporter with The Sacramento Bee

Arthur Delaney, an economic reporter for the Huffington Post

Anna Badkhen, an independent journalist and the author of Peace Meals and Waiting for the Taliban. 

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the latest jobs numbers. Economists said the bad news caught them offguard. How did the media respond? We will also talk about widening investigations into Rupert Murdock's phone hacking scandal. We'll be joined by The Huffington Post's Arthur Delaney, New York Review of Books' Jeff Madrick and The Independent's Archie Bland. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Arthur Delaney, economic reporter with The Huffington Post

Jeff Madrick, a contributor to The New York Review of Books. His new book is Age of Greed, The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to Present.

Archie Bland is foreign editor at the Independent and also writes for Columbia Journalism Review.

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of nearly 250,000 state department cables released by Wikileaks. We'll also talk about the economy as 800,000 people are set to loose their unemployment benefit next week, as well as escalation in tensions on the Korean Peninsula. We'll be joined by Huffington Post's Arthur Delaney, Aljazeera's Richard Gizbert, and veteran Donald Kirk joins us from Seoul. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you

Guests:
Arthur Delaney, economic reporter with Huffington Post

Richard Gizbert, host of Al Jazeera English's weekly media watch program, The Listening Post

Donald Kirk, a veteran newspaper correspondent based in South Korea

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

What Will Long-Term Unemployment Look Like?

How will long-term unemployment shape our society in the coming decades? On the next Your Call, we continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by discussing long-term unemployment. Economists say the era of high joblessness is just beginning and might get worse. What can we learn about the impact of long-term joblessness from previous recessions, or from communities where high unemployment is chronic?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you've experienced long-term unemployment, how has it changed the course of your life? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Don Peck, managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly magazine

Ethel Long Scott, executive director of the Women's Economic Agenda Project

Click to Listen: What Will Long-Term Unemployment Look Like?

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll discuss the coverage of U.S. military escalation in Afghanistan, the healthcare debate on Capitol Hill and the lucrative healthcare industry. We'll be joined by Market Watch's Russ Britt, McClatchy's David Lightman and independent journalist Pratap Chatterjee. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting? Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us your comments and questions to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Russ Britt, bureau chief and consumer editor with Market Watch
David Lightman, Washington Bureau correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers
Pratap Chatterjee, independent journalist and managing editor of CorpWatch

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable

How Does Unemployment Insurance Work?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about Unemployment Insurance benefits. With unemployment in California at its highest rate since 1940, lots more people are learning how the system works and where it falls short. What can we learn from the way other states and countries handle unemployment insurance?

You can join us live at 11 or email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you're grappling with the current system, what do you think needs to change? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Maurice Emsellem, the National Employment Law Project's (NELP) Policy Director

Olga Pierce, a Fellow at ProPublica

Click to Listen: How Does Unemployment Insurance Work?

Your Call 071309 Who are California's newly unemployed?

Who are the tens of thousands of people who have lost their jobs in California? On the next Your Call, we'll put a face on the unemployment numbers. California's unemployment rate in May hit 11.5%, its highest level since 1941. What resources are available to people who can't find jobs? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Unemployment is expected to get worse. So what are the solutions? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Adrienne Suffin, chair of the Employment Development Department (EDD) Task Force

Lauren Appelbaum, research director for UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Click to Listen: Who are California's newly unemployed?

Your Call 091808 Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

How much is the war in Iraq really costing us? What will be long term consequences of rock bottom lows in the economy? Inflation and unemployment are on the rise while the housing and stock markets are crashing. On Your Call we will speak with Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, about the economy and his latest book The Three Trillion Dollar War. Since 2004, the costs of the war in Iraq have increased by 130 percent. What has made the price tag on the war skyrocket, and how is it affecting our economy day to day? Join us, it's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest: Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winning economist and co-author of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

Click to Listen: Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz

Your Call 032608 What is the state of our economy?

What is the true state of U.S. economy and how did we get here? On the next Your Call, we'll take a look at the current U.S. economic crisis. By the end of this year, 20 million Americans could have mortgages worth more than the value of their homes. 63,000 jobs were lost last month, the biggest drop since July 2003. And the U.S. dollar continues to weaken. Has the economy slipped into recession? How are you being impacted by the economic crisis? And what are the solutions? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Rep. Barbara Lee

Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Robert Pollin, professor of economics and founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Click to Listen: What is the state of our economy?