Access to emergency contraception has swirled at the center of a recent flurry of debate over insurance coverage. It's a pill women can take if their birth control fails or they forget to use it.

The most popular brand of emergency contraception is called "Plan B One-Step." You might better know it as the morning-after pill. Today, about 10 percent of sexually active women say they've used it.

Recently we’ve seen dueling definitions of what it means to be poor. The U.S. Census Bureau came up with two figures, depending on whether factors like food stamps are included.  And another study defined poverty as having scant resources. But some have long said that poverty figures are exaggerated and used for political purposes.

Guests:

Beth Mattingly: Director of Research on Vulnerable Families at the Carsey Institute and Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire.

Song/Artist/Album/Label

Compadres in the Old Sierra/ Late Night Radio/ Late Night Radio/ Late Night Radio

DevilsInside my Head/ Kathy Bennett and Thomas Perkins/ The Kitchen Music Sessions/ Bennett and Perkins/

Frog's Legs/ David Surrette/  Sun Dog/ Madrina/

Yin Yang Blues/ Alastair Moock/ Songs From Sing Out! V.52#3/ www.singout.org/

I Wish I Knew/ Catie Curtis/ Hello, Stranger/ Compass/

Cowgirl in the Sand/ Barnstar/ C'mon/ Barnstar

To Dance/ Pierce Pettis/ That Kind of Love/ Compass

May 1, 2012   6:00pm
Strafford Room, Memorial Union Building
University of New Hampshire, Durham NH

Veteran NPR science correspondent and award-winning journalist Ira Flatow, host of Science Friday, is coming to Durham, NH. He’ll be interviewed on stage by NHPR’s All Things Considered host Brady Carlson and will take questions from the audience.

While he was hunkered down in his sleeping bag waiting to be rescued from just below the Franconia Ridge a man from Maine says he was no longer worried about himself, but about the Fish and Game officers headed his way in the dark, poor visibility and high winds.

“You feel kind of horrible putting other people in that situation,” said Evan Embrey, 24, of Buxton, Maine.

Embrey told NHPR he was hiking on the ridge between Mt. Lafayette and Little Haystack Mountain when winds picked up,

“It was pushing me over, so it had to be gusts of 50 or 60 mile per hour,” he said.

Wednesday, February 8

>>>Harvey Reid at the York Harbor Inn  ~ York Harbor, ME ~ 7pm ~ 207-363-5119

>>> David Surrette, Barley Pub, 328 Central Ave. Dover NH 9pm www.barleypub.com for more info.

Friday, February 10

>>>Catie Curtis at the Peterborough Folk Music Society ~ Peterborough, NH ~ http://pfmsconcerts.org 603-827-2905

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