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Election Watch '04: Working Hard for Change
September 1, 2004
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As the November 2004 election approaches, presidential candidates are staking out their positions on issues facing working people and their families. On this edition, we explore the economic anxieties driving voters - such as access to health insurance, affordable childcare, and livable wages.
Featuring:
Amy Nickum, part-time Banana Republic employee; Jessica Rothhaar, northern California organizer, Health Access; Sara Lee, vice-president of media relations, California Chamber of Commerce; Martin Martinez, policy director, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network; Martha Hollis, working single mother of two children; Larry Drury, executive director, Go Kids, Inc.; Saskia Traill, senior childcare specialist, National Economic Development and Law Center; Sita Moon, enrollment coordinator, Community Bridges; Matthew Hardy, organizer, United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1179; Ralph Nader, independent presidential candidate; Doug Bandow, senior fellow, Cato Institute; Amy Chasinoff, deputy director of policy, Economic Policy Institute; Natasha Humphries, former quality assurance engineer at Palm, Inc. and tech worker activist; Anthony Marek, communications director, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group; Dean Baker, economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research.
For more information :
Health Access
414 13th Street, Oakland, CA 94612
510-873-8787
www.health-access.org
California Chamber of Commerce
1215 K Street, Suite 1400, Sacramento, CA 95814
916-444-6670
www.calchamber.com
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
654 13th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
510-832-1160; info@cpehn.org
www.cpehn.org
Go Kids, Inc.
885 Morro Drive
Gilroy, CA 95020
408-843-9004
www.gokids.org
National Economic Development and Law Center
2201 Broadway Street, Suite 815
Oakland, CA 94612
510-251-2600
www.nedlc.org
Community Bridges
121 Sycamore Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831-454-9920; info@cbridges.org
www.communitybridges.org
Center for Economic and Policy Research
1621 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20009
202-265-3263; cepr@cepr.net
www.cepr.net
Economic Policy Institute
1660 L Street, NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036
202-775-8810; epi@epinet.org
www.epinet.org
Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
202-842-0200
www.cato.org
UFCW 1179
4121 Alhambra Avenue
Martinez, CA 94553
925-250-3608
www.ufcw1179.org
Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group
224 Airport Parkway, #620
San Jose, CA 95110
408-501-7864
www.svmg.org