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Surveillance Since 9/11

By Shay Zeller on Wednesday, April 19, 2006.

Surveillance techniques and applications are more sophisticated than ever, since 9-11. We'll see how the government and big business are utilizing their new tools differently, and we'll take a look at the privacy issues that some Americans fear are being lost.
Our guests are:

David Mackey, associate professor of Criminal Justice at Plymouth State University

Katherine Albrecht, author of Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID.

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A Slip in Savings

By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, April 19, 2006.

For the first time since the Great Depression, Americans’ personal savings rate dropped into the negative, meaning last year more and more of us spent all of our disposable income and we dipped into savings from prior years. The trend has many economists worried that we’ve become too carefree with our money. We’ll look at why we’re putting less of what we make aside and ask just how big of a problem it really is. Laura is joined by Russ Thibeault, President of Applied Economic Research in Laconia, and Annamaria Lusardi, Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College.

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HHS Introduces New Welfare Plan

By Dan Gorenstein on Wednesday, April 19, 2006.

Congress has renewed the federal welfare program known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, or TANF.

The state Department of Health and Human Services has scrambled to comply with the new federal rules.

HHS introduced its 25 page plan for the first time publicly at a state Senate Finance Committee hearing Wednesday.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein reports.

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