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Scientists are screaming about the untold agonies of climate change around the world, as President #45 is criticized for pulling out of the Paris Agreement, and global environmental justice is on the verge of becoming a political issue in America, if not the world.

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Today's guest hosts are Brent J. Cohen, Executive Director of Generation Progress, and Edwith Theogene, Organizing Director for Generation Progress.

They discuss all things Medicaid, the government program that provides health coverage to low-income people in the U.S.

Medicaid is one of the largest payers for health care in this country—as of July 2019, over 65 million people in the U.S. were enrolled in the program.

To break down exactly what Medicaid is, who the program helps, and the threats the program is facing, they’re joined today by Fabiola Carrión, the Senior Attorney at the National Health Law Program, and Jamille Fields Allsbrook, Director of the Women’s Initiative at the Center for American Progress.

The website for "Generation Progress" is www.GenProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @GenProgress.  Brent J. Cohen's Twitter handle is @BrentJCohen and Edwith Theogene's handle is @WhoIsEdwith.

Karel is feeling Fat this Friday and doing the #MathofAmerica only makes this worse. The number of people hating CA, the number of people in the Bay that want to leave, the amount of cash a US President has to pay for stealing…listen daily at reallykarel.com and support at patreon.com/reallykarel

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As Trump officially starts the US withdrawal from the #ParisClimateAccord, we discuss the link between #ClimateChange and #immigration with Dr. Adil Najam, Dean of the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies.

Leslie is rejoined by Scott Paul, President of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), a partnership established by some of America’s leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers union.

For over a decade, Mr. Paul and AAM have worked to make American manufacturing a top-of-mind issue for voters and our national leaders through effective advocacy, innovative research, and a savvy public relations strategy.

The two discuss how, while America thought it would be transforming China, China and its policies have been transforming the United States.  Unfortunately for Americans, many of those transformations have not gone well for the U.S. 

One of the most recent examples is how the stifling of free speech has crossed the Pacific Ocean from the People's Republic to our own backyard.  This has been apparent in the case of many U.S. companies cow-towing to China's demands to not give voice to Hong Kong and its pro-democracy protests.  One very public example has been the backlash to a pro Hong-Kong tweet by the owner of the NBA's Houston Rockets, Daryl Morey.

Leslie and Scott also discuss a massive series of thefts of biomedical secrets being stolen from some of the most prestigious medical schools in the U.S. and sent back to China.

Additionally, they analyze a new plan by Senator Marco Rubio that would block U.S. federal pensions from investing in China.

Finally, Scott helps to explain a new W.T.O. decision that will allow China to impose trade sanctions on U.S. goods.

The website for AAM is AmericanManufacturing.org and their Twitter handle is @KeepItMadeInUSA. Scott's Twitter handle is @ScottPaulAAM.

Rick Smith Show - 11-06-2019 by Progressive Voices