In this exclusive interview, Acting Secretary of Labor Patrick Pizzella highlights the great job creation, especially for minorities, over the past two and a half years. He explains how a proposed reform will give high school students greater access to apprenticeships so they can earn money in a job while learning marketable skills, a possible alternative to attending a four-year college which could leave them in debt with a degree of little market value. Pizzella also tells us not to fear robots taking our jobs. Higher productivity will mean more employment opportunities!

For more on automation, check out our piece Labor Day Needs an Education Revolution.

Also, check out Trump Administration Proposes More Flexible Apprenticeship Rules.

U.S. Rep. Ron Wright (R-TX), joins the podcast to discuss the debt ceiling increase and budget-busting spending bill Congress just passed.  Wright voted against the measure in the House.

Wright also discusses his bill H.R. 2962, the Traffic Camera Freedom Act, which would withhold federal highway funding to states that do not ban red light and speed camera enforcement. Wright says traffic enforcement by camera violates constitutional rights to confront one’s accusers and due process rights to one’s day in court.

Wright was elected in 2018, and previously served as Tarrant County Tax Assessor-Collector and as a member of the Arlington City Council.

Nebraska state Sen. Dave Murman, a member of the unicameral legislature, joins the podcast to discuss the issue of state property tax relief. Sen. Murman recently attended a forum on property tax reform sponsored by the Platte Institute. An initiative to amend the state constitution could be on the ballot in November 2020 that provides for a 35 percent tax credit against property taxes paid in the state income tax system, leaving to the legislature the task of restraining spending and, potentially, broadening the state sales tax to compensate for the lost revenue.

Murman is a farmer by profession, and was elected to the legislature in 2018.

Scott Beyer, a journalist who focuses on American urban issues, joins the podcast to talk about his three-year cross-country trip, during which he lived in 30 cities for a month each to write a book about Market Urbanism. He discusses the problems of housing affordability and homelessness as well as cities that are successful, such as Houston, Texas.

Beyer owns a media company called The Market Urbanism Report, which is dedicated to advancing market-oriented policy reforms in cities.

Beyer's articles and commentaries have been published by The Atlantic, National Review, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, City Journal, American Magazine, Reason Magazine, and the Cato Institute. His work is collected at MarketUrbanismReport.com.

Brian Thomas, Executive Director of Citizens for Accountable Taxation, joins Lennie Jarratt to discuss why the property taxes in New Jersey are so high, what has been done to attempt to control them, why that has failed, and some plans for the future.

Thomas discussed how school districts are the driving force behind the ever increasing taxes aided by policies coming out of the legislature in Trenton. These bad policies are causing an ever increasing emigration of taxpayers and businesses. The emigration has been heavily middle class, but is now including millennials, retirees, and the wealthy, including Bon Jovi. This is causing New Jersey to have the highest foreclosure rate in the country.