The Rick Smith Show Full Three Hour Show 7-14-2016

Rick Bloomingdale, President of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO joins Rick to discuss the recently signed revenue bill and the PA Budget and preview the upcoming conventions. 

 

Josh Knauer, Josh is the CEO of Rhiza a software company in the Pittsburgh area joins Rick to talk about how an increase in the minimum wage would affect his business and what he as a business owner thinks about raising the wage.

 

Matías Vernengo, Professor of Economics, Bucknell University joins Rick to explain how economic growth could be a bad thing, and, actually trigger the next recession. 

 

Isaiah Poole, Director of Online Communications at the Campaign for America’s Future joins Rick to talks about Michele Bachmann’s “1950’s sensibility” comment and what a Trump presidency would look like for women, minorities, the LGBT community, and workers

 

Dan Montgomery, President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers and veteran high school English teacher joins Rick to talk about the ideological War on Children being waged in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and across the nation and what his union is doing to fight for all children.