Latest On CSU Strike; Slums in the Inland Empire; Iraqi Refugees; Neuroeconomics
Latest On CSU Strike
Cal State faculty members and administrators agree to a 10-day contract extension.
Slums in the Inland Empire
In the Coachella Valley, hundreds of trailer parks house poor Latino workers around trash, mud and filthy water.
Iraqi Refugees
By some estimates as many as 2 million Iraqis have fled their country, but where are they going? Jon Beaupre talks with experts about who the refugees are, why they are leaving, why the U.S. has accepted so few, and what lies ahead for them. Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Ellen Sauerbrey and Tim Irwin, spokesman for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, about the current situation.
Neuroeconomics
The new field of neuroeconomics is a discipline combining methods from neuroscience, economics and psychology to study how the brain makes decisions. Jon talks with neuroeconomist Dr. Paul Zak, who recently discovered that an ancient chemical in our brains, oxytocin, in instrumental our ability to empathize and trust.