By working people. For working people. Welcome to The Rick Smith Show. Working Americans are tired of listening to think tank approved corporate news and commentary. They want a direct, honest approach to the issues that matter, so this is what The Rick Smith Show provides. No puppets. No focus groups. No talking points.
Episodes
Friday Jun 24, 2016
Friday Jun 24, 2016
Dave Fillman, Executive Director of AFSCME Council 13 joins Rick to explain what’s going on in Harrisburg as the State’s Constitutionally mandated budget deadline draws near. What is the latest on Republican lead attacks on pensions, education, and health and health services, and is a bad budget on time better than a good budget late?
Aseia Glover, member of the Fight for $15 and McDonald’s employee joins Rick to call on Democratic and Republican leaders to raise the commonwealth’s minimum wage. It has been nearly a decade since the last minimum wage increase and the 1.3 million Pennsylvania’s who would be helped by an increase to $10.10 need it now.
Matías Vernengo, Professor of Economics at Bucknell University joins Rick to explain the shocking Brexit vote that has the U.K. leaving the European Union. What does it mean for the EU? The UK? And the US?
Terrance Heath, Online Producer at Campaign for America's Future joins Rick for the Wingnut Week in Review. If the House of Representatives was created by our founding fathers as a forum for the passion of the masses to rage. It surely lived up to its founding ideal.
Jeff Faux, Founding President and Distinguished Fellow with the Economic Policy Institute joins Rick to describe the potential fallout and possible outcome in light of the shocking Brexit vote that has the U.K. leaving the European Union. What does it mean for the EU? The UK? And the US?
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