Podcast appearances and mentions of rebecca vallas

As Off-Kilter continues our ongoing series of conversations with leaders across the economic justice movement digging into why, in the famous words of Audre Lorde, self-care is political warfare—and the role radical self-care plays in their own lives to sustain them in this work—Rebecca Vallas had a ton of fun sitting down with her next guest in the series, who's a dear friend and colleague of hers and who's been on this show enough times she really needs no introduction. Rebecca Cokley is a longtime disability rights activist who serves as the disability rights program officer at the Ford Foundation (whose support of TCF and the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative makes this show possible week to week). They had a far-ranging conversation about disabled people as modern-day oracles when it comes to radical self-care; the role of philanthropy in supporting self-care across social justice movements; the story behind why she started doing daily Twitter reminders to the disability community to eat lunch; and lots more. For more: Follow Rebecca Cokley on Twitter @rebeccacokley to get her lunchtime reminders to eat (and lots more)

As Off-Kilter continues our ongoing series of conversations with leaders across the economic justice movement digging into why, in the famous words of Audre Lorde, self-care is political warfare—and the role radical self-care plays in their own lives to sustain them in this work—Rebecca Vallas had a ton of fun sitting down with her next guest in the series, who's a dear friend and colleague of hers and who's been on this show enough times she really needs no introduction. Rebecca Cokley is a longtime disability rights activist who serves as the disability rights program officer at the Ford Foundation (whose support of TCF and the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative makes this show possible week to week). They had a far-ranging conversation about disabled people as modern-day oracles when it comes to radical self-care; the role of philanthropy in supporting self-care across social justice movements; the story behind why she started doing daily Twitter reminders to the disability community to eat lunch; and lots more.  For more: Follow Rebecca Cokley on Twitter @rebeccacokley to get her lunchtime reminders to eat (and lots more)

Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more Maura Quint  is a humor writer and activist whose work has been featured in publications such as McSweeneys and The New Yorker. She was named one of Rolling Stone's top 25 funniest twitter accounts of 2016. When not writing comedy, Maura has worked extensively with non-profits in diverse sectors including political action campaigns, international arts collectives and health and human services organizations. She has never been officially paid to protest but did once find fifteen cents on the ground at an immigrants' rights rally and wanted to make sure that had been disclosed. She was the co founder and executive director of TaxMarch.org  She is now the Wealth Tax Campaign Director at the Americans for Tax Fairness Rebecca Vallas is a senior fellow and co-director of The Century Foundation's Disability Economic Justice Collaborative, where she leads TCF's work to achieve economic justice for people with disabilities and their families. Vallas joins TCF after seven years at the Center for American Progress, during which she helped to build and lead CAP's Poverty to Prosperity Program, in a range of roles, including as the program's first policy director and managing director, and later as vice president. During her time at CAP, Vallas also helped to establish CAP's Disability Justice Initiative—the first disability policy project at a U.S. think tank—as well as the organization's criminal justice reform work. Listen to her podcast "Off Kilter"   Much of Vallas's policy and advocacy work flows from her years as a legal aid lawyer. In partnership with her legal aid alma mater, she co-developed the “clean slate” model of automated, automatic criminal record-clearing that is now law in Pennsylvania, Utah, Michigan, Connecticut, Delaware, Virginia, and advancing in additional states—while advancing national momentum for removing barriers to economic opportunity for justice-impacted individuals and families. In 2019, she co-founded the Clean Slate Initiative, a national organization supporting state efforts to adopt clean slate policies. Vallas previously served as the deputy director of government affairs for the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives, working to protect and strengthen the Social Security disability programs, including as co-chair of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Social Security Task Force. Forever a legal aid lawyer at heart, Vallas spent several years representing low-income individuals and families at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, where she began her work as a Skadden Fellow, and was the inaugural recipient of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association's New Leaders in Advocacy Award. Vallas has authored dozens of policy reports on antipoverty policy, income security, disability policy, access to justice, and criminal records/reentry policy; testified before Congress and state legislatures on numerous occasions; and been cited and quoted in media outlets across the country. She is also the creator and host of Off-Kilter, a nationally distributed podcast about poverty, inequality, and everything they intersect with. Vallas serves on the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Social Insurance and is a member of the Academy's 2020–2021 Economic Security Study Panel. Vallas was twice named to Forbes magazine's “30 Under 30” for law and policy, and later to Emory University's “40 Under 40.” She received her law degree from the University of Virginia and graduated summa cum laude from Emory University, where she received a bachelor's degree in psychology. In a past life, she was an operatically trained mezzo soprano. She's the proud mother of three rescue kitties. Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page

This week marked the thirty-second anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act—or ADA, as it's better known—the landmark civil rights law that promised equal opportunity and economic security for Americans with disabilities. As we've talked about a lot on this show over the years, as important as it is to celebrate how far we've come in the decades since the ADA became part of the fabric of American life, every time we hit the month of July, it's even more important to acknowledge how far will still have to go to achieve the as-yet unfulfilled promises of the ADA.  And that's why this July, Off-Kilter has been once again spending all month long having conversations with leaders from across the disability community.  To close out that series of conversations, this week we take a deep dive into one of the most egregious and discriminatory disability policies still on the books here in America—known as section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In a nutshell, 14(c) is an archaic loophole in federal wage and hour law that allows employers to pay disabled workers far less than the federal or state minimum wage just because of their disability.  So, as Off-Kilter closes out this series of July conversations for #ADA2022, Rebecca sat down with two dear friends and visionary leaders within the disability community working not just to tinker around the edges of a status quo, wherein disabled people are twice as likely to live in poverty as their nondisabled peers, but to imagine and build a society that recognizes and affirms the human rights and dignity of all disabled people. Together they took a look at the history of subminimum wages for people with disabilities in the United States and their role in devaluing disabled people's labor and humanity; recent efforts to put 14(c) in the rearview mirror where it belongs; and the future of disability policy more broadly. This week's guests: Rebecca Cokley is the program officer for disability rights at the Ford Foundation, where she leads a portfolio she's been visioning and creating from scratch as the first program officer to oversee a disability rights portfolio at any major U.S. foundation. Before that she was Rebecca Vallas's partner in crime in co-founding the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress—the first dedicated disability project at a U.S. think tank—as well as president of the National Council on Disability.  And Chai Feldblum currently serves as cice cChair of the Ability One Commission, the independent federal agency that oversees the AbilityOne Program, whose mission is to tap America's underutilized workforce of individuals who are blind or have significant disabilities to deliver high quality, mission-essential products and services to federal agencies in quality employment opportunities. Chai is a former law professor at Georgetown University and formerly served as a commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for several years, nominated by President Obama.  For more on this week's topics: Here's the polling finding just 1 in 3 disabled voters believe leaders in Washington care about people with disabilities For more on the subminimum wage, check out this TCF report and this documentary by Rooted in Rights Here's Chai's lecture at Yale University on “Transforming Employment for People with Significant Disabilities” Read this piece in Inside Philanthropy on how Rebecca Cokley is leveraging her post at the Ford Foundation to push other philanthropic leaders to center disability in their grantmaking (and why Ford is partnering with TCF on the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative) Here's the Department of Housing and Urban Development's guidance on community living released this July; here's the Department of Transportation's new Airline Passengers with Disabilities' Bill of Rights; and here's the Department of Education's recent 504 guidance on preventing discriminatory use of school discipline Here's more from Rebecca Cokley and Rebecca Vallas on the bipartisan threat to the ADA that unfortunately hasn't gone away

Liberation in a Generation Action co-founders and co-executive directors Jeremie Greer and Solana Rice joined OFF-KILTER host Rebecca Vallas for a look at the story behind LibGen and how it's working to dismantle what they have termed the “oppression economy” by putting people of color at the center of policy change. The group also takes a sneak peek at the Raci$m Is Profitable podcast.

With the Senate announcing they're heading into recess without passing the Build Back Better Act, we figured why not get out of the news cycle for Off-Kilter's last episode of the year and instead have a far more good-news conversation that Rebecca Vallas has been meaning to have for a while with her dear friend Rebecca Cokley of the Ford Foundation.

With the Senate announcing they're heading into recess without passing the Build Back Better Act, we figured why not get out of the news cycle for Off-Kilter's last episode of the year and instead have a far more good-news conversation that Rebecca Vallas has been meaning to have for a while with her dear friend Rebecca Cokley about what she's got underway at the Ford Foundation, in her history-making new role as the first program officer to head a U.S. disability rights portfolio at a major U.S. foundation.  For more: Learn more about Rebecca Cokley's newly launched disability rights program at the Ford Foundation  Here's more on what the Rebeccas mean when they say “disability is a cause and consequence of poverty” Follow Rebecca Cokley on Twitter: @rebeccacokley

Air Date 12/8/2021 Today we take a look at the state of disability rights and reexamine what we thought we knew about what it means to be disabled in a society that is not built to accommodate various physical and mental disabilities. Is one inherently disabled by their condition or do they become disabled when they bump up against unnecessary barriers in society? Be part of the show! Leave us a message at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com  Transcript BestOfTheLeft.com/Support (Get AD FREE Shows & Bonus Content) OUR AFFILIATE LINKS: Check out Tentree.com and use the promo code "Best" for 15% off BestOfTheLeft.com/Store BotL MERCHANDISE! BestOfTheLeft.com/Advertise Sponsor the show! SHOW NOTES Ch. 1: Rebecca Vallas on Disability Rights - The Ongoing Struggle - The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow - Air Date 8-7-21 Rebecca Vallas is a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation Ch. 2: The ongoing fight for disability economic justice, over thirty years after the ADA Part 1 - OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas - Air Date 9-10-21 Rebecca talks with four of the disabled women leaders who've been making history on the front-lines of the ongoing fight for disability economic justice: Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Judy Heumann, Rebecca Cokley, and Mia Ives-Rublee. Ch. 3: Disability Justice (w Lateef McLeod) Part 1 - Srsly Wrong - Air Date 11-23-21 This week Lateef Mcleod joins the Wrong Boys to discuss the principles of Disability Justice, why accessibility is important for everyone, and how capitalism systematically reduces people to our labor power, denying our wholeness as human beings. Ch. 4: The ongoing fight for disability economic justice, over thirty years after the ADA Part 2 - OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas - Air Date 9-10-21 Ch. 5: The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People w Ellen Clifford - Downstream - Air Date 11-22-21 Ellen speaks about her book, The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of Human Catastrophe, discussing the social model of disability, the history of the Disabled People's Movement, and consequences of austerity policies. Ch. 6: The ongoing fight for disability economic justice, over thirty years after the ADA Part 3 - OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas - Air Date 9-10-21 Ch. 7: Disability Justice (w Lateef McLeod) Part 2 - Srsly Wrong - Air Date 11-23-21 MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S) Ch. 8: Disability Justice (w Lateef McLeod) Part 3 - Srsly Wrong - Air Date 11-23-21 Ch. 9: Why Are All The Baddies Disabled w/ Amanda Leduc - DownStream - Air Date 11-25-21 Ash Sarkar is joined by disability rights advocate Amanda Leduc, author of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space, to discuss how depictions of disability have impacted the lives of disabled people and why Bruce Wayne isn't a hero. VOICEMAILS Ch. 10: Human nature - David from Los Angeles FINAL COMMENTS Ch. 11: Final comments on the Christian moralizing of economics and poverty MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions): Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr  Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent Activism Music: This Fickle World by Theo Bard (https://theobard.bandcamp.com/track/this-fickle-world) Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent SHOW IMAGE:  Description: Photo of an empty accessible parking space with an accessibility symbol (person in wheelchair) painted in yellow on the ground in the space. The words "Is this the only time you put yourself in my place?" are painted underneath. Credit: Origin unknown, but earliest reference found is from 2014 on Twitter from the accounts @bengilchrist and @IsNoPrincess.   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Listen Anywhere! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com

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For all the talk about what's in “Build Back Better” recovery legislation that Democrats are trying to move through Congress, one thing that's not currently in the bill, in what many workers' advocates say is a glaring omission, is anything to do with Unemployment Insurance—which was badly in need of a refresh long before the COVID-19 pandemic, to ensure that when workers lose a job, they have the protection they need.  In fact, workers' advocates and progressive think tanks have been ringing the alarm bells for years about how few jobless workers were protected by our UI system. The pre-pandemic share of jobless workers actually helped by UI in their time of need? Just 1 in 4, a record low. One of the most important lessons from the pandemic is without question the structural failings in America's Unemployment Insurance system—gaps that were in many cases briefly filled by temporary expansions of jobless protections that have since been allowed to expire, leaving millions of still-jobless workers with less than they need to get by, or worse, nothing at all to keep them and their families afloat. For a look at the state of Unemployment Insurance now that recent expansions have been allowed to run out, what jobless workers are facing right now, and the long-needed UI fixes that workers' advocates are hoping might still be included in upcoming recovery legislation… for this week's Off-Kilter, Rebecca sat down with a panel of UI experts and advocates who have been leading the charge: Rebecca Dixon, executive director of the National Employment Law Project; Andy Stettner, senior fellow at The Century Foundation; and Stephanie Freed, a freelancer turned UI organizer who founded and serves as the executive director of Extend PUA, which has organized tens of thousands of jobless workers in the fight to extend federal UI expansions during the pandemic. Read Rebecca Dixon's statement on why UI reforms must be included in “Build Back Better” recovery legislation  Read more from Andy Stettner on the 7.5 million jobless workers who went over a UI benefits cliff on Labor Day Learn more about the story behind ExtendPUA.org—and how Stephanie Freed went from being a freelancer to organizing tens of thousands of jobless workers Jobless benefits protected 4.7 million people from poverty in 2020, according to NELP analysis Here's a deep dive into how workers' advocates say UI needs to be fixed (by NELP and allies) And here's an op-ed Rebecca (Vallas) wrote early in the pandemic about Florida's broken-by-design UI system

Rebecca Vallas is a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls If you are interested in saving money on cannabis get a prescription right now from Veriheal.com/Pete The Earth is flat, the World Trade Center collapse was a controlled demolition, planes are spraying poison to control the weather, and actors faked the Sandy Hook massacre … All these claims are bunk: falsehoods, mistakes, and in some cases, outright lies. But many people passionately believe one or more of these conspiracy theories. They consume countless books and videos, join like-minded online communities, try to convert those around them, and even, on occasion, alienate their own friends and family. Why is this, and how can you help people, especially those closest to you, break free from the downward spiral of conspiracy thinking? In Escaping the Rabbit Hole, author Mick West shares over a decade's worth of knowledge and experience investigating and debunking false conspiracy theories through his forum, MetaBunk.org, and sets forth a practical guide to helping friends and loved ones recognize these theories for what they really are. Perhaps counterintuitively, the most successful approaches to helping individuals escape a rabbit hole aren't comprised of simply explaining why they are wrong; rather, West's tried-and-tested approach emphasizes clear communication based on mutual respect, honesty, openness, and patience. West puts his debunking techniques and best practices to the test with four of the most popular false conspiracy theories today (Chemtrails, 9/11 Controlled Demolition, False Flags, and Flat Earth)―providing road maps to help you to understand your friend and help them escape the rabbit hole. These are accompanied by real-life case studies of individuals who, with help, were able to break free from conspiracism. Rebecca Vallas is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where her work focuses on economic justice. Vallas joins TCF after seven years at the Center for American Progress, during which she helped to build and lead CAP's Poverty to Prosperity Program, in a range of roles, including as the program's first policy director and managing director, and later as vice president. During her time at CAP, Vallas also helped to establish CAP's Disability Justice Initiative—the first disability policy project at a U.S. think tank—as well as the organization's criminal justice reform work. Much of Vallas's policy and advocacy work flows from her years as a legal aid lawyer. In partnership with her legal aid alma mater, she co-developed the “clean slate” model of automated, automatic criminal record-clearing that is now law in Pennsylvania, Utah, and Michigan and advancing in additional states—while advancing national momentum for removing barriers to economic opportunity for justice-impacted individuals and families. In 2019, she co-founded the Clean Slate Initiative, a national organization supporting state efforts to adopt clean slate policies. Vallas previously served as the deputy director of government affairs for the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives, working to protect and strengthen the Social Security disability programs, including as co-chair of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) Social Security Task Force. Forever a legal aid lawyer at heart, Vallas spent several years representing low-income individuals and families at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, where she began her work as a Skadden Fellow, and was the inaugural recipient of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association's New Leaders in Advocacy Award. Vallas has authored dozens of policy reports on antipoverty policy, income security, disability policy, access to justice, and criminal records/reentry policy; testified before Congress and state legislatures on numerous occasions; and been cited and quoted in media outlets across the country. She is also the creator and host of Off-Kilter, a nationally distributed podcast about poverty, inequality, and everything they intersect with. Vallas serves on the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Social Insurance and is a member of the Academy's 2020–2021 Economic Security Study Panel. Vallas was twice named to Forbes magazine's “30 Under 30” for law and policy, and later to Emory University's “40 Under 40.” She received her law degree from the University of Virginia and graduated summa cum laude from Emory University, where she received a bachelor's degree in psychology. In a past life, she was an operatically trained mezzo soprano. She's the proud mother of four rescue kitties. Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page

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Today's shows is awesome. Thanks to subscriber and friend Dan McDonald for the recommendation of Dr Craig Spencer. He treated and contracted Ebola in west Africa in 2014 and has treated Covid 19 patients in NYC at Columbia Medical. He now has 2 tours of duty as I call them. Dr. Spencer MD MPH is the Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. Here is the video AJ+ made to partner with his narrative about treating Covid 19 patients. Follow Dr Craig Spencer on Twitter @Craig_A_Spencer My Conversation with Craig starts at 11:07 My 2nd guest is what I call an "Anti Poverty Hero." She is an expert in Poverty, disability, Social Security, criminal justice and re-entry policy. We talked about the Clean Slate Initiative. Rebecca Vallas is a senior fellow at American Progress, where she has spent the past five years helping to build and lead CAP’s Poverty to Prosperity Program in a range of roles including as the program’s managing director and vice president—and along the way, helping to launch the organization’s criminal justice reform and disability justice work. She is also the host of the Off Kilter podcast Follow Rebecca on Twitter @RebeccaVallas My Conversation with Rebecca begins at 53:27 Finally I asked Professor Eric Segall to join me LIVE on twitter yesterday evening to talk about the latest decision from the Supreme Court which announced its ruling Tuesday "that states must allow religious schools to participate in programs that provide scholarships to students attending private schools, a decision that opened the door to more public funding of religious education." Follow Eric on Twitter @EspinSegall Our conversation begins at 1:21:46 Thanks for listening. Please take a moment to give the show a rating if you listen on a podcast app. Tomorrow. Glenn Kirschner and more! Thanks guys. I hope you enjoy the show   Sign up for a paid subscription to this daily podcast   Like my Facebook page Follow me on Twitter and Instagram  

Rebecca Vallas is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a former legal aid lawyer. She joined me to talk about Anti Poverty measures  and re imagining public assistance during the Pandemic.  Read her phenomenal and comprehensive piece at The Washington Post "Republicans wrapped the safety net in red tape. Now we’re all suffering." Listen to her Podcast "Off Kilter" Jeff Jarvis is a professor the the Craig Newmark School of Journalism. Check out BuzzMachine.com We talked about why journalism about science is bad and what needs to be done and much more. Wendell Potter is the corporate insurance industry whistleblower. He is the author of several excellent books on how they try to fuck us over. We talked about how they are making billions off of the pandemic Christian Finnegan joined me to wrap us the week in news and issues and was thoughtful, funny and original as always.  Barry Ritholtz joined me live on twitter and we discussed lots of things. Oil markets, bond markets, happy hour, Amazon delivery, bailout histories, coginitive bias and more. His Podcast  New Shows everyday. Sign up for a paid subscription please. thank you    

Today's show open was taped with a live audience of subscribers First I welcomed Noreen Springstead of Why Hunger and Rebecca Vallas of the Center for American Progress' Poverty to Prosperity program to talk about the most vulnerable Americans dealing with food insecurity.  Then I welcomed the legal eagle Eric Segall to talk about the horror of Wisconsin forcing voters to risk their lives to vote. Read his piece on it here

Corona Virus Disease 2019, also known as COVID-19, is spreading, and threatening the lives of the physically vulnerable, including the elderly and people with a variety of preexisting conditions. In response, businesses, cities, and states are shutting down. The entire San Francisco Bay Area, the economic engine for much of California and the rest of … Continue reading Rebecca Vallas: Erasing the Hierarchy of Humanity → The post Rebecca Vallas: Erasing the Hierarchy of Humanity appeared first on Sea Change Radio.

Hunger and Food insecurity are a national problem. The Trump administration has said it would cut $4.5 billion from the USDA’s budget, and would limit food assistance to those who truly need it. Right before Christmas. I called Rebecca Vallas to break it down for me. At 19:20 I welcomed Emily Atkin of Heated.info back to the conversation to talk about the latest with the Climate Crisis, her talk with John Kerry and debunk the rumor that Koala's have gone extinct.  2 awesomely smart humans in one awesomely smart podcast.  Follow and Support @rebeccavallas Listen to her pod Off Kilter medium.com/@OffKilterShow Follow and Support Emily Atkin at Heated.world  @emoree   I'm @petedominick  Patreon.com/PeteDominick

Everyone makes mistakes. But when that mistake is a criminal one, should it follow a person for the rest of his or her life? Few of us understand the process of expungement and how it can provide a person with an opportunity for starting over with a clean slate. Rebecca Vallas from the Center for American Progress joins Connor to discuss why it’s in our interest to provide some offenders with a second chance at life.

On the #RADIO show this week we talk with newly elected Superstar U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley and get her advice on activism; we get the inside scoop on what’s happening inside the beltway with the FAMILY Act and Trump; then we hear about some incredible wins relating to banks announcing they’ll stop banking the private prison industry and how you can be involved; and get the very bad, no good awful news about the Trump proposed budget. *Special guests include: U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley, @RepPressley; Ruth Martin, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Morgan Simon, Candide Group/ Real Money Moves, @morgansimon1; Rebecca Vallas, Center for American Progress, @CAPWomen  Originally Aired: March 18, 2019

It’s another Disability Justice Initiative Takeover episode! Rebecca (Vallas) is joined by Rebecca Cokley, Azza Altiraifi & Valerie Novack of CAP’s disability program, plus special guest Matt Cortland (aka Medicaid Matt), for a conversation on the growing surveillance state targeting people with disabilities.

The final hours of Martin Luther King Junior. The progressive promise of a People’s Budget. Plus a compelling call for Medicare for all.   An author explores the final hours of Martin Luther King, Jr. and what more we can do to fulfill his vision. Plus,  a “people’s budget” for economic justice. And the Bill Press Show on how to guarantee healthcare for all Americans.   Christopher Cook Every year, the Congressional Progressive Caucus puts forth “the People’s Budget.” It’s a roadmap to meeting the economic needs of all Americans. Our next guest explains why they do it and what’s in it.   Joseph Rosenbloom This week, Americans once again join together in the annual commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr.   In 1968, King arrived in Memphis Tennessee hoping to galvanize a movement for economic equality. One journalist took on the task by writing a vivid account of his final hours.  In this encore interview, author Joseph Rosenbloom takes us along on his journey.   Rebecca Vallas Bill Press talks to Rebecca Vallas,  Vice President of the Poverty to Prosperity Program at American Progress.   Jim Hightower The reality behind Trump's pose as a Bull Moose Populist.  

MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin:  Corporate media have been declaring organized labor moribund—sometimes abetting efforts to kill it—for many years now. But more than 30,000 public school teachers in Los Angeles, on strike with overwhelming community support, would suggest you ought not believe everything you read. We’ll hear about the LA teachers strike, and […]

The shutdown is still going on, but Donald Trump welcomed the Clemson Tiger football team to the White House on Monday evening. He served them a large spread of McDonald's hamburgers, Burger King, Wendy's and Domino's Pizza. Not exactly health food for the student athletes. SOME Republicans are finally seeing the light about Steve King. They see that he is a white supremacist and they're taking action. We've known this for YEARS. Why are they just now noticing?We talk environmental issues with Maya van Rossum from the Delaware Riverkeepers, host of the Off-Kilter podcast Rebecca Vallas and Cate Martel from The Hill!

Amazon provides a great service, but they treat their workers terribly. After Bernie Sanders threatened legislation to force them to provide a better living for the employees, Amazon announced that they were raising their minimum wage to 15/hr. Guest host Peter Ogburn gets the details from Rebecca Vallas, host of the Off Kilter podcast from the Center for American Progress. They also talk about Initiative 77 in Washington, DC, which would change the dynamic of food/beverage workers and how they are paid.

Topics: Mid-term elections Kavanaugh nomination New threats to immigrants Updated report on U.S. income and poverty Co-Host: Jennifer Jones Austin Guests: Leslie Marshal, nationally-syndicated, liberal radio talk show host Rebecca Vallas, Vice President, Poverty to Prosperity Program, Center for American Progress. Yasmine Chahkar Farhang, Lead Immigration Attorney at Make the Road NY  Music: Alejandro Escovedo - “Outlaw for You” from the album “The Crossing”

The state of New York held its primaries yesterday and that's the last of the big ones where Democrats can shake things up. Cynthia Nixon, the TRUE progressive in the race, lost to Andrew Cuomo, but a lot of progressives unseated some establishment Dems. The fight goes on! Donald Trump has his defenders when it comes to his vile tweets about Puerto Rico. Republicans lined up to defend Trump even though he lied multiple times about the impact of Hurricane Maria. We talk to Jon Allen from NBC News, Rebecca Vallas from the Off Kilter Podcast and Josh Schwerin from Priorities USA!

One in five Americans live with disabilities, making nearly every issue — from health care to the environment to the economy, and more — a disability issue. That’s why earlier this week, in conjunction with the 28th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Center for American Progress announced the launch of the Disability Justice Initiative — in recognition that it’s long past time we stopped relegating people with disabilities to a single day on the calendar — and viewing so-called “disability issues” in a silo, separate and apart from the broader progressive agenda. To take a look at how far we’ve come in the 28 years since the ADA — and how far we still have to go — this week the Disability Justice Initiative is taking over Off-Kilter, with guest co-host Rebecca Cokley, who’s leading up the project for CAP, joining Rebecca Vallas for an all-disability episode featuring some of our favorite disability leaders — a takeover we look forward to bringing back on the regular in the weeks and months ahead. Tune in to hear from: Sen. Tammy Duckworth on being a disabled mom and a U.S. Senator; moving beyond the pity/charity model to understanding disability as a source of strength; what it’s like to commemorate the ADA anniversary while the ADA itself is under attack; and more. Matt Cortland, a chronically ill, disabled lawyer and activist (if you’re not following him on Twitter, you’re doing it wrong) on the importance of broadening the disability movement beyond traditional disability categories, to include chronic illnesses such as Crohn’s Disease; law school as a “survival strategy”; and the work of changing norms and spaces, instead of continuing to force people with disabilities to figure out how to “fit in.” Andraea Lavant, disability advocate and friend of the show, on the quiet ableism of straw bans and what straws mean to her; how having people with disabilities at the table helps us craft stronger, more inclusive policies; and what’s wrong with demanding that people with disabilities explain themselves and their accessibility needs on the internet and in real life.

Josh discusses the ongoing problem of Juvenile Life Without Parole sentences. You can easily join Nation Outside or Nation Outside Detroit, we would love to have you on our team. The NFL Players Coalition wrote a letter in response to President Trump's request for them to send him a list of commutations which they would like for him to carry out. I agreed with the vast majority of their letter, my only request, in my response, was that they stop using the term "non-violent" to qualify who was worthy of relief. If you want to watch Knife Skills, it is well worth your time, I am looking very much forward to this upcoming interview. It is about a restaurant in Cleveland that serves as a training center to teach formerly incarcerated people the skills to work in a fine dining environment. Donna Hylton's book, "A Little Piece Of Light" is available for purchase now. Pennsylvania recently passed Clean Slate legislation. Rebecca Vallas is also the host of the Off-Kilter podcast and a friend. Jay Mo was quoted in the Detroit Free Press soon after his release from prison. There are 247 people serving Juvenile Life Without Parole sentences are still waiting for new hearings in the state of Michigan. The Supreme Court of Michigan decided mostly against people serving Juvenile Life Without Parole sentences last week in a 4-2 decision. Almost all news outlets published this same AP wire report which leaves out a good deal of what the Michigan decision actually held. The Main SCOTUS case that started the trend towards ending Juvenile Life Without Parole was Miller v. Alabama. The follow-up decision that allowed for new hearings was Montgomery v Louisiana. Lisa Yun's California Interdisciplinary Law Review article talks both about the science behind calls to end Juvenile Life Without Parole sentences and about the international law surrounding the issue. The quoted ACLU report is called "Racial Disparities in Sentencing." and it was buttressed by an article in Reentry Times. Rashad Robinson talked about the problem with prosecutors in his New York Times op-ed about Juvenile Life Without Parole.

A huge opportunity for Donald Trump was completely blown. He threw a fit and canceled the upcoming summit with North Korea. Not only that, he threatened a nuclear war. Joe Cirincione is the best mind on foreign policy and he joined us to tell us what it means. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's Spygate rhetoric continues. Our friend Chris Lu joins us to talk news of the day. Bill and Chris are joined by Rebecca Vallas to talk about the Farm Bill, CHIP and Dodd Frank!

A lot of things wind up embedded in the massive, regularly-renewed piece of legislation known as the "farm bill" each year, and one of the most important--at least, to the 40 million Americans who rely on it--is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, previously and still commonly known as food stamps. The program has been in the sights of Republicans, fresh off a victory on tax cuts, who want to pay for those cuts by slashing benefits to working people and the poor. Rebecca Vallas has been following the progress of these attacks and the broader push by the Right to put "Work Requirements" on everything, and she joins us once again to talk about how the farm bill was defeated and how SNAP might be saved.  A little bit of background on what the SNAP program is. It used to be called food stamps. People might be familiar with that name for the program, but today it is called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It helps about 40 million Americans put food on the table in any given month. Now, the benefits that it provides are already extremely meager. Just $1.40 per person per meal. Just pausing there for a second. Imagine that as your food budget, but you have got Republicans in Congress saying, “Nope, that is too much. We have got to actually take some of that away from people who are struggling to put food on the table.” That is what this what this farm bill would have done, is to make a program that is already incredibly meager, where families already, by and large, report running out of food by the third week in the month. It is to make that program even harder to access for people when they are facing hard times. And the people that it targets, by and large, are people who are struggling to find work or can’t get enough hours in their job. That is who would be most hurt by this proposal. Now, what happened last week, is we saw total unity among Democrats. We saw Democrats saying, “This is a heartless bill that I can’t vote for” and we saw that from every single Democrat in the house. What we saw in the Republican caucus was really disarray. Not super dissimilar from what we have seen on a number of occasions with a number of pieces of legalization where Republicans can’t quite seem to agree on how heartless they want to be. We actually saw the bill go down literally in the middle of the voting. It seems like Republicans weren’t aware that they didn’t have the votes to pass the bill. So, we saw Democrats in lockstep say, “No, I can’t vote for a piece of legislation that takes food away from as many as 2 million Americans,” which is what this bill would have done. And we saw Republicans split between wanting to see the bill be even crueler and take even more food away from even more people. In some cases, in the case of moderate Republicans, we saw them saying, “Actually, I am realizing this is going to be bad for me in November.” Interviews for Resistance is a syndicated series of interviews with organizers, agitators and troublemakers, available twice weekly as text and podcast. You can now subscribe on iTunes! Previous interviews here.

Guest host Peter Ogburn welcomes Rebecca Vallas back to the show to dive into the Trump budget. What does it mean? What does he want? A great explanation of where he wants to take the country.Plus, remember the Democratic memo? Jessica Schulberg from HuffPost gives us an update. And a discussion on how evangelicals can continue to support Donald Trump with Jack Jenkins from the Religion News Service!

Rand Paul shut down the government with his stunt filibuster at the last minute. Guest host Igor Volsky explains why that's total BS.We talk to Politico's Connor O'Brien, USA Today's Eliza Collins and Rebecca Vallas, host of the Off-Kilter podcast!

Bill Press welcomes Karyn Bruggeman, Rebecca Vallas and Bernie Becker to discuss Donna Brazile's bombshell about the DNC during the 2016 primary, the #MeToo campaign to raise awareness of sexual harassment, the GOP's tax plan to benefit the wealthy and how likely it is that their bill will get through Congress - the entire Friday edition of the Bill Press Show!

Rebecca Vallas, Center for American Progress & the Off Kilter Show, is in for Thom & talking about tax reform with Economist Dr. Jared Bernstein...and DACA with Kristian Ramos of Define American.

Bill Press is out so executive producer Peter Ogburn is filling in. He welcomes Leslie Dach, Rebecca Vallas, & Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to discuss the CBO score for the AHCA bill that leaves 23 million uninsured, the Republican House candidate bodyslamming a reporter in Montana, and a proposed budget that will help the rich and hurt the poor - the full Thursday edition of the Bill Press Show!

Dr. Gail Myers joins us to discuss the urban farms and the plight of the black farmer. We also speak with Rebecca Vallas from the Center for American Progress about urban poverty.

Political reporter Bob Buckley joins us to talk about the Republican Convention that just concluded. And Rebecca Vallas from the Center for American Progress discusses the plight of disabled inmates.