Federal Insights

Inside Government – January 16th, 2009

John Gage Heidi Shierholz Ron Moore Alex Bastani

Federal News Radio Custom Media@WTOPWFEDcustom

January 16, 2009 12:40 pm

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John Gage
AFGE National President
• The launch of AFGE’s Good Government ad campaign in Washington, D.C.

Heidi Shierholz
Economist, Economic Policy Institute
• Struggling U.S. job market, and how it impacts low-income earners

Ron Moore
D.C. Examiner Special Interests Columnist
• High cost of COBRA health benefits for the unemployed

• Inside the Employee Free Choice Act

Alex Bastani
AFGE Department of Labor Local 12 President
• Improving worker morale at DOL

• What his local will focus on under Obama administration