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“If we march into that village and we start trying to persecute people for using poison, something that's very illegal, nobody's going to talk to us. We're not going to find out where the poison came from. We're not going to be able to shut anything down. We should take the approach that people are using poison because they're desperate, because they see no other alternative.” – Andrew Stein Andrew Stein is a wildlife ecologist who spent the past 25 years studying human carnivore conflict from African wild dogs and lions in Kenya and Botswana to leopards and hyenas in Namibia. His work has long focused on finding ways for people and predators to coexist. He is the founder of CLAWS , an organization based in Botswana that's working at the intersection of cutting-edge wildlife research and community driven conservation. Since its start in 2014 and official launch as an NGO in 2020, CLAWS has been pioneering science-based, tech-forward strategies to reduce conflict between people and carnivores. By collaborating closely with local communities, especially traditional cattle herders, CLAWS supports both species conservation and rural livelihoods—making coexistence not just possible, but sustainable.…

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Episode 90 - Fixing Corporate Taxes - Marc Stier 17:13

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Episode 89 - The Business Case Against Trump's Agenda - Jim Doyle 30:05

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Jim Doyle, President of the Business Forward Foundation, joins us to talk to us about a new report entitled “Answering America: The Business Case Against Trump’s Agenda.” You can find the new report here: http://bit.ly/2KdNL0U And learn more about the Business Forward Foundation here: https://www.businessfwd.org/…

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Episode 88 - Analyzing the 2019-20 PA Budget - Marc Stier 16:55

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PBPC Director Marc Stier joins the podcast to walk through his recently-released comprehensive analysis of the PA budget passed by the General Assembly at the end of June. You can read the full budget analysis, co-authored by Stier and PBPC Policy Analyst Diana Polson here: http://bit.ly/2kvyVZV

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Episode 87 - Federal Rules Changes and the Social Safety Net - Steve Catanese 19:10

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Steve Catanese, President of SEIU Local 668, joins the podcast to talk about various Trump Administration proposed rule changes that would affect many social safety net programs that help Pennsylvania families get back on their feet. Steve also discusses how members of the public can voice their opinion on these proposed rules—and why doing so is so important. TO SEND PUBLIC COMMENT: - Comment on SNAP regulation concerning eligibility: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FNS-2018-0037-0001 - The comment periods are closed for the other two proposed rules discussed, but members of the public can email comments about Wagner-Peyser to: ETAPagemaster@dol.gov and comments about the poverty threshold to the White House's contact page: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ as Mick Mulvaney is both the head of OMB and Trump's CoS.…

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Episode 86 - Advocating for a Minimum Wage Increase - Kadida Kenner 9:41

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Kadida Kenner, Director of Campaigns for the PA Budget and Policy Center, talks about the May 23 statewide day of action on raising the minimum wage and where the minimum wage debate goes from here. See the page to write to your legislator about raising the minimum wage here: http://bit.ly/2HUUs8j See information about the June 4 budget day of action in Harrisburg here: http://bit.ly/2W2mTsp…

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Episode 85 - A Minimum Wage Increase in PA - Marc Stier 17:01

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PBPC Director Marc Stier talks about the possibility of a minimum wage increase in Pennsylvania this year for the first time in a decade and why that conversation is tied to budget negotiations. Tell your legislators it's time to raise the minimum wage here: http://bit.ly/2HUUs8j "Pizza and the Minimum Wage" by Marc Stier: http://bit.ly/2V2qCAM…

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Episode 84 - Gov. Wolf's Budget Proposal - Marc Stier 19:41

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PBPC Director Marc Stier joins us to talk about Governor Tom Wolf's budget proposal following his budget address last week. More info from PBPC about the budget here: http://bit.ly/2TQW9pQ Follow the We The People - PA campaign here: www.wethepeoplepa.org

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Episode 83 - Minimum Wage Myths - Mark Price 15:10

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As of January 1, 2019, 20 U.S. states raised their minimum wages, lifting pay for 5.3 million workers across the country. Pennsylvania did not. Mark Price, Labor Economist for the Keystone Research Center, joins us to debunk the most common myths about the minimum wage. More info at: www.keystoneresearch.org.…

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Episode 82 - 2019 & We The People - Marc Stier 16:48

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Marc Stier, PBPC Director and the chair of the We The People - PA campaign, joins the podcast to talk about what the We The People campaign has been doing both right before and right after the election a couple weeks ago – and he helps us look ahead to the 2019 legislative session. Visit the We The People - PA website here: http://wethepeoplepa.org/ Visit the We The People - PA Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/WeThePeoplePA/…

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Episode 81 - We The People - Pennsylvania Update - Marc Stier 12:51

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