[0:18] ..." Brooklyn is getting the city's first IKEA thousands of new condominiums and a basketball team transplanted from New Jersey. But the hundred or so people who turned out yesterday morning we're talking about"...
[0:53] ..." always -- applicants Sara Horowitz -- the freelancers union to provide health insurance she says self employed workers face challenges like their tax status retirement funds and other issues whose solutions -- far beyond Brooklyn. Why don't we start seeing. We actually are part of a national movement that can really start doing things and things for ourselves and thanks for society. In the meantime though that cachet of the Borough continues to worry its residents. Paul Demeco a video editor was in the audience. Now it's becoming overpopulated with -- people coming from Manhattan who can afford to pay more money and then you know like for instance of beer doesn't cost four dollars anymore -- six or seven. But no one on the panel offered a solution to the cost of beer in the Borough. Let alone the cost of that. -- WNYC and teacher and V forum was sponsored by the center for an urban future"...
[0:00]" The artists architects and others like them who live in Brooklyn now account for half billion dollars in income a year. Two organizations held a forum yesterday at the -- central library on how to keep the so called creative sector growing. WM IC's Matthew Sherman has more."
[0:18]" Brooklyn is getting the city's first IKEA thousands of new condominiums and a basketball team transplanted from New Jersey. But the hundred or so people who turned out yesterday morning we're talking about a homegrown kind. Just how to encourage the creative sector is a bit of a puzzle in part because it has been so good at solving problems on its own. One of the speakers Scott adkins pounded a writer's room that provides its members with an antidote to loneliness and a place to work outside the small apartments. We see growth constantly I don't advertise it's all word of mouth and we're always -- applicants Sara Horowitz -- the freelancers union to provide health insurance she says self employed workers face challenges like their tax status retirement funds and other issues whose solutions -- far beyond Brooklyn. Why don't we start seeing. We actually are part of a national movement that can really start doing things and things for ourselves and thanks for society. In the meantime though that cachet of the Borough continues to worry its residents. Paul Demeco a video editor was in the audience. Now it's becoming overpopulated with -- people coming from Manhattan who can afford to pay more money and then you know like for instance of beer doesn't cost four dollars anymore -- six or seven. But no one on the panel offered a solution to the cost of beer in the Borough. Let alone the cost of that. -- WNYC and teacher and V forum was sponsored by the center for an urban future and the Brooklyn economic development corporation"
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million is completely made outnumbered. And it's also fails to note that senator Obama's call for cutting the self employment tax. Call for setting the capital gains rate as we roll on small business and people who start to the people start their own business as. Or invested entrepreneurial and small business ventures. And senator Obama's is the only health plan that is actually going to help small business in the McCain -- People you're going to see. Thousands of businesses. Ending their health care coverage because that'll they're going to be paying taxes. All the health insurance they provide so if you just take this slight is look at and compare -- to -- against. It is the -- "...
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week. Emphasizing lower taxes lower spending and more robust free trade than Senator Obama wants. Can higher taxes more government spending and more restrictions on trade be the road to prosperity. "...
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would say that none of those is is an accurate description of senator Obama's. Plan. And I would also. Remind you that they haven't just been saying there. They haven't just been put forward that things "...
[description] Brian Lehrer Show associate producer Jim Colgan , breaks down the results. Then we talk to New York Times economics writer David Leonhardt about the economics of price disparities, and then to NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen about what it means for journalism. View the results: Beer Lettuce Milk UPDATE: Here is the number for the state department that investigates claims about grocery stores charging excess prices for milk: 1-800-554-4501
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won't be taking any calls. Our entire crew is off receiving our Peabody Award for broadcast excellence so we are re airing a few of the segments that we submitted. Through the Peabody committee we hope you enjoy. The results show us outsourcing or group journalists just are you being challenged over the last few weeks. We ask you go grocery store near you and checked the prices for three common items whole milk. Iceberg lettuce and a six pack of Budweiser we were looking for price disparities. And what they mean and more than 350 you took part thank you that was great. We release preliminary results about ten "...
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a New York Times economics correspondent who has written before about price disparities in what they mean. But we get also invite he 357 of you who posted prices to post a comment along with. "...
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to David -- and -- New York Times. Economics correspondent about price disparities in what they actually mean. And we want to hear from those of you actually went out and did it what was "...
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found out that the premiums that families have to pay for their Health Insurance that is uncovered through my employer gonna contribute to a Health Insurance premium. Those have been rising ten times fast and an income for the last five years. Americans are concerned about rising gas "...
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a senior economist at the economic policy institute. Frequent contributor to the New York Times the Washington Post and programs on CNBC and NPR. He describes his latest -- crunch as a jargon free explanation of "...
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states have -- in the -- and thirty states now including the New York State on have minimum wage is higher than the federal level. And that's been a fascinating things because it's an economist and "...