The Rick Smith Show Full Three hours for 8-29-2016

Cherrie Bucknor, Research Assistant at the Center for Economic and Policy Research joins Rick to discuss her recent study on the benefits of unionization for workers in the African-American community and how unions can be the vehicle by which the nation can close the inequality gap.

Jess McIntosh, Hillary Clinton’s director of communications outreach joins Rick to talk Presidential election as the Immigration issue moves center stage with GOP candidate Donald Trump’s scattering of ideas and the Alt-Right campaign pivot kicks into high gear. 

Kevin Mahoney, Editor Zero at the Raging Chicken Press joins Rick with updates from the front lines as the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education continue their negotiations in the hopes of averting a strike at the 14 PASSHE institutions.

Mark Hall, director of the documentary film "Killing Ed." Joins Rick to exposes the shocking truth behind of one of the largest networks of taxpayer-funded charter schools in the nation and how Pennsylvania is at the center.

Dr. Eunice Han, economics Prof at the University of Utah, joins Rick to discuss his new study, "The Myth of Unions Overprotection of Bad Teachers" and to explain why this frame has become so popular in the mainstream media.