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Friday, November 20, 2009 at 10:00 am

Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 10:00 am

Nearly one in ten Americans are out of work. How long can that last? And how can we live with it?

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Monday, July 13, 2009 at 10:00 am

When jobs and hours are cut, who takes the hit? Everybody? A bloodied few? We look at ethics and hard choices in a time of job loss.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 10:00 am

The class of 2009. They’ve got degrees, lots of enthusiasm, but few have found jobs. We’ll hear from them and experts on what the future holds.

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Friday, May 8, 2009 at 10:00 am

The New York Times’ David Leonhardt on the economy. The Washington Post’s Perry Bacon on politics. And Jack Beatty on it all.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 11:00 am

We’re heading into the woods to look at logging today and Jack McEnany’s new book “Brush Cat.”

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 10:00 am

Living “Plan B.” We’ll hear from a roundtable of Americans about setbacks — new jobs, maybe whole new careers — and how they’re faring.

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Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 10:00 am

Thousands of new layoffs across the country this week, adding to the millions of jobs already lost to recession. We’ll talk with Americans around the country about life without work.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 10:00 am

Unemployment is rising fast, and America’s social safety net isn’t what it used to be. We talk about surviving the new economic reality.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
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Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
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Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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