WAMC: 51% Show # 1062 (2009-11-19)

51 % The Women's Perspective

51% Show # 1062

(2009-11-19)

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ALBANY, NY (WAMC) - The Shriver Report's release put what we already knew in black and white; stay at home moms have become the minority and women now make up half of the US workforce. But there are still women staying home to raise their children and some of them have given up very successful careers to do it. Katie Britton spoke with Pamela Stone, the author of "Opting Out: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home." The answer to that question is another finding of the Shriver Report - employers often given them no alternative.

8:34 Opting Out Britton

Pamela Stone's book is "Opting Out: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home." It is published by the University of California Press.

We hear a lot about the problem of illegal immigrants. We hear about the cost to our health care system, the effect on our economy, the strain on our educational system. But what about life on the other side of the border? I recently spoke with a Mexican woman who has lost nearly her entire family to immigration - they've all moved to America because they just can't find work in Mexico. And she now tours the United States to try to explain why our own trade policies are at the root of the problem.

5:10 Immigrants Galindo

The Witness For Peace website is at witnessforpeace.org.

Finally, you've probably heard of slow food...the movement encouraging us to buy food grown within our own local areas. How about slow money? The idea is to invest in small, nurture capital industry instead of venture capitalism. Investing as though what we eat, what we buy and where it comes from matters. And one facet of the movement is an old idea that kept our grandparents going through the Depression - local currency. Rebecca Sheir reports from Washington.

6:20 Sheir

For more on slow money, go to slowmoneyalliance.org. And a great resource for information on local currency is the EF Schumacher Society in the Berkshires. You can find out more at smallisbeautiful.org.

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