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The Worldwide Recession & Austerity has led to Global Unemployment & Civil Unrest
The United States isn’t the only nation dealing with chronic unemployment – the rest of the world is too! A new report by the World Bank says that the global economy needs to create 200 million jobs to recover from the worldwide recession and reach full employment. Twenty-seven million jobs were lost around the world when the economy went in the tank in 2008 – and subsequent job growth hasn’t been nearly strong enough to keep up with the 40 million new people who enter the workforce every single year.
Austerity measures in several European nations from Greece to Spain to the U.K. have crippled economies and mobilized working people into the streets. Major demonstrations in Denmark and the Czech Republic were held over the week to protest against austerity too. And in France – austerity may just end up costing the President his job.
One way to create jobs is to unleash a green revolution around the world to cut carbon emissions and use energy more efficiently. Now only if we can get the oil barons out of the way to get started.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... No show due to maintenance (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Why not watch one of your favorite past shows or one you have missed over on YouTube. |
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Please welcome syndicated columnist & Democratic strategist Karl Frisch in for Thom today...
Hour One: Media bias and the GOP- Eric Burns, Bullfight Strategies / past president of Media Matters for America 
CISPA and child labor- Lee Fang, RepublicReport.org
Hour Two: Upward mobility...not for the middle class anymore- Tina Dupuy, Crooks & Liars
Arizona immigration law heads to SCOTUS and some great news for Obamacare!- Doug Kendall, Constitutional Accountability Center
Hour Three: The best of the rest of the news and your calls...
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
Right here on The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...TAG, YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!! (OCCUPY SOMETHING!!!!!)
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Friday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more." -- Gaylord Nelson.
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie:    campaign site.
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1, section 8: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Hour Two: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday...Happy Earth Day
Hour Three: The secret Mitt Romney...- Melanie N. Roussell, National Press Secretary for the Democratic National Committee
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Thom's Poll
French Pres. Sarkozy lost the first round of elections to a Socialist candidate. Could the US ever have a Socialist President?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Conversations w/Great Minds - Chris Mooney The Republican Brain P1
Conversations w/Great Minds - Chris Mooney The Republican Brain P2
Zimmerman - The Wild West was a Myth!
Big Picture Rumble - Ahmadinejad bankrolling the Republican Party?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 4/20/12: Conversations with Great Minds: Chris Mooney
Thom talks with journalist and author Chris Mooney in tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds." Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses whether Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is Karl Rove's secret donor, why only the super-rich can afford to go to college now and when will the BP oil executives responsible for the oil spill be thrown in jail. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom looks at what drives America's obsession with guns.
Thom Hartmann on the News - April 23, 2012
Thom Hartmann on the News - April 20, 2012
Brunch with Bernie-April 20,2012
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 Would you like to help give a child with a very troubled background this feeling of peace? Thom and Louise Hartmann founded the New England Salem Children's Village (NESCV) in New Hampshire in 1979. With states delaying payment for the children they entrust to the village, they need help with cash flow. Can you help? Now on Facebook. |
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