The Rick Smith Show - 7/6/2015

Rick Bloomingdale, President of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO joins Rick to talk about where things are with regard to the Pennsylvania budget and other bills passed by republican leaders on their way to the beach for vacation.

Kristian Ramos, Director of Communications and Outreach for Media Matters' Hispanic Media Project joins Rick to discuss media coverage around The Donald’s (Trump) comments about immigrants being rapists and drug dealers.  

Matías Vernengo, Associate Professor of Economics at Bucknell University joins Rick to talk about the vote against more austerity in Greece and what it means for Europe and the United States.

Ross Eisenbrey, Vice President of the Economic Policy Institute joins Rick to talk about President Obama’s recent directive to the Department of Labor to fix the abusive management loophole and give workers back their overtime protection.  Let your voice be heard on this issue by commenting here.