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This week, we speak with Case University Law Professor Andrew Morriss and the NAM’s own Quentin Riegel about the latest installment of legally Insane. Then, in the wake of the recent interest in lobbying reform, we speak with NAM Vice President and Deputy Director for Corporate Affairs Tiffany Adams who provides an informative and spirited defense of NAM plant tour. Finally, a Dueling Economists debate of the trade deficit with Economic Policy Institute Sr. Economist Rob Scott and NAM VP for International Economic Affairs Frank Vargo

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In a recent study, David “Danny” Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics at Dartmouth, examined the effectiveness of affirmative action programs that are designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction. The study found that little has changed over the past 25 years. In this podcast, he talks about his study and the state of affirmative action in construction today.

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Abigail Baird, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, studies the physical and behavioral changes that take place during adolescence, especially those changes that take place in the brain. In this podcast, she talks about her research in general, and about a recent study that looked at the brains of college students throughout their freshman year at Dartmouth.

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This week, we begin by talking to two political reporters from The Hill, Josephine Hearn and Elana Schor on asbestos and newly-minted House Majority Leader John Boehner’s ascent. Then, Manufacturing Institute President Jerry Jasinowski joins us on the latest Popkin report talking about how U.S. manufacturing leadership may be at risk. Finally, we talk to NAM Senior Vice president for Policy and Government Relations, Jay Timmons, on the NAM’s 2006 Policy Agenda.

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This past week, John Engler testified at a Senate Committee on lobbying reform. We’ll discuss that and the rest of Congress’s agenda with Congressional Quarterly’s Martin Kady. Then, we speak with Mike Baroody on the upcoming asbestos bill. Later, we talk with an education expert on boys’ middle school drop off in literacy skills. All this along with music from R and B guitarist Johnny Rawls, Sam Cooke and that little ditty from the movie theaters that invites to “go to the lobby” for a snack.

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