Interview: Ross Hammond
Season 2
About the Episode
Scott Simon speaks with Ross Hammond on the role that public policy can play in solving America’s obesity epidemic.
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Save USA
Save USA is designed to get low income New Yorkers to put that tax refund into savings.5:02 -
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Interview: Ed Rendell
Former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell speaks on the nation's infrastructure woes.6:54 -
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A years-long dispute in Tucson over a Mexican-American studies program has tensions high.1:00 -
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The family planning fight
GOP lawmakers in Texas have cut the state’s family planning budget by 2/3, closing clinics12:13 -
American Voices: Jerry McGill
Jerry McGill reflects on the shooting that left him a quadriplegic for life.1:33 -
Searching for answers
A girl's painful search for information about her father, lost in the Arizona desert.5:02
