Town Meeting Audio

Mr. Olocho came to the U.S. from Kenya after receiving a green card through the immigration lottery. The Nashua Adult Learning Center helped him prepare for and achieve his U.S. high school equivalency degree.

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The Exchange takes a break for a Veterans Day special from the producers of the Peabody Award-winning program "To The the Best of Our Knowledge.” "Boots on the Ground” examines the Iraq War through the stories, commentary and analysis of the men and women fighting there. We’ll hear from John Wroblewski Sr. who traveled to Iraq to see where his son, 2nd Lt. John "JT" Wroblewski, died on April 6, 2004, in Ramadi. We hear soldiers’ reactions to Helen Benedict's book "The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq.". We’ll meet Sergeant 1st Class Toby Nunn, who, after two tours of duty in Iraq, works for Soldiers' Angels, a nonprofit that supports veterans and deployed military personnel and their families and Jonathan Pieslak is joined by Marines and soldiers to talk about their favorite combat songs.

As health care premiums continue to skyrocket, Granite State businesses large and small are considering outside-the-box strategies to keep a lid on expenses, from lowering obesity and smoking rates to treating depression and teaching employees how to shop for the most affordable medical care. We’ll talk to a roundtable of benefit managers and analysts on what ideas are being tossed around and which are sticking.

Guests

• David Whelan, health care staff writer for Forbes Magazine
• David Larrivee, principal consultant at Workplace Benefit Solutions in Manchester
• Peter Hayes, longtime health care consultant with Hannaford Supermarket and now owner of the consulting company Health Care Solutions

Every week at this time we bring you Jon Greenberg’s round-up of the economic news. The headline is obviously the national unemployment rate, now pegged at 10.2 percent. That’s not however the focus of Jon’s update.