The Rick Smith Show - 7/28/2015

Carol E. Tracy, Executive Director  of the Women's Law Project joins Rick to discuss what an increase in the minimum wage would mean for women and to talk about the recent right wing attacks on Planned Parenthood.

Anna Chu, Vice President of Policy and Research at the Center for American Progress Action Fund joins Rick to talk about her recent report comparing GOP campaign rhetoric to their actual policies and what those policies mean for workers.

 Abe Amoros, PA Legislative Director for LIUNA joins Rick to talk about the Transportation bill moving through the US Senate possibly only to die in the US House and what that means for his members.

Ed Perry, a retired aquatic biologist who retired from the US Fish and Wildlife Service after 30 years of service joins Rick to talk about protecting Pennsylvania’s streams and wetland as an advocate for the National Wildlife Federation’s global warming campaign.