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We all know it's never really been a good time to be a woman, but is turnabout fair play, or just plain mean? Any man, any where, that has an accusation brought against him is dismissed as guilty, step down, move over, get out. Really? Plus house shopping and is Kylie Jenner too young? Listen daily at reallykarel.com and donate at patreon.com/karel

The Final Edition #247 02-06-2018 by Progressive Voices

17 million people stayed home today because of a game, and we can't get people to go vote on a Tuesday? Karel has a lot to say about the Super Bowl and its commercials, but more importantly, why it is the perfect US Holiday. Also, a life ends, a new one yet to begin, Americans by the millions are starting over. Listen daily at reallykarel.com and support the show at patreon.com/karel

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The BradCast 02-05-2018 by Progressive Voices

Randi Rhodes PV Promo 2-5-18 by Progressive Voices

Ed Chung guest hosts today's show. He is the Vice President for Criminal Justice Reform at American Progress. Ed, and other staff at the Center for American Progress, will host the show each Thursday from 3-4pm ET until April 2nd when Mark Levine returns to the air following his work as a Virginia State Delegate.

Below are the topics that Ed discussed today, along with the guests he was joined by.

1. Stock Market Volatility, Labor Market, Retirement, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Guest 1: Michael Madowitz, an economist at the Center for American Progress whose work has focused on labor markets, financial markets, tax policy, household budgeting in different phases of life, and a variety of environmental economics topics

Tweets: @MikeMadowitz

Guest 2: Helaine Olen, author of "Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry" and co-author of "The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to be Complicated." Helaine is also a Contributor to www.TheNation.com.

Tweets: @HelaineOlen

2. Millennials Injecting New Life Into Labor Unions

Guest: Michelle Chen, a contributing writer for The Nation. She is also a contributing editor at Dissent magazine and a contributing writer at In These Times. She is also a co-producer of “Asia Pacific Forum” on Pacifica’s WBAI and Dissent’s “Belabored” podcast, and studies history at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Tweets: @MeeShellChen

Ed's Twitter handle is @EdChungTweets. Before working at the Center for American Progress, he served as senior adviser on criminal justice, policing, and civil rights issues for the Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice.

In that capacity, Chung coordinated a national initiative for building trust between the justice system and the communities it serves, as well as the Obama administration’s violence reduction and second-chance efforts under the My Brother’s Keeper initiative.

Chung also held positions in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, including special counsel to the assistant attorney general and federal prosecutor with the Criminal Section, where he received the John Marshall Award for successfully prosecuting the first case under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.

The website for "The Center for American Progress" is www.AmericanProgress.org and their Twitter Handle is @amprog.

It appears the US in particular is having the wrong conversations about many of its headlines, so Karel sets all that right today in this show about NFL players and illegals, opioids and Kelly Anne and working in SF and living in one's car. Listen daily at reallykarel.com and support at patreon.com/karel

White House withdraws nomination of wildly unqualified climate science denier to top environmental post; Drought returns with a vengeance to California and Southern U.S.; Exxon Mobil pulled in an extra $8 billion in profits thanks to the Republicans' tax cut; PLUS: California's governor hits the accelerator on statewide electric vehicle charging network... All that and more in today's Green News Report!