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Taylor Smith: Rebuttal to a PWC Report ECN PODCAST - Jim Lakely talks with Taylor Smith, policy analyst at The Heartland Institute, about a Policy Brief he wrote with James M. Taylor titled "PricewaterhouseCoopers' 'Too Late' Report: Poor Science, No Practical Solutions." The brief is a rebuttal to a PWC report from November that predicts at least 2 degrees Celsius warming – and as much as 6 degrees – in the “near future.”	Vince Vernuccio: Income Growth, More Jobs in Right-to-Work States FIRE PODCAST - Michigan has become the 24th state to enact "right-to-work," a law that says people may not be forced to join or pay dues to a labor union. Vince Vernuccio of the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy tells us why the home state of the powerful United Auto Workers union has embraced labor freedom instead of forced unionism.
David John: Social Security HCN PODCAST - Ben Domenech talks with David John of The Heritage Foundation about Social Security and entitlement reform.	Matthew Mitchell: What Went Wrong With the Bush Tax Cuts BTN PODCAST - Tax cuts that are phased in, temporary, Keynesian in nature, and coupled with uncontrolled spending are hardly market-oriented policies, says Matthew Mitchell of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, who explains why the Bush-era tax cuts failed to achieve their promises.
Vern Williams: A Teacher's Thoughts on the Common Core SRN PODCAST - The New York Times recently held a symposium to air different thoughts about national education standards and tests, called the Common Core. One author who participated joins the School Reform News podcast to expound on his essay. Middle school math teacher Vern Williams has sat on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel and developed honors math curriculum for the school where he has taught for approximately 30 years in Fairfax, Virginia. He explains why good, experienced teachers ignore education fads, why education officials should consult more teachers when crafting policies and why they often don't pick the best teachers to consult, and his opinion of Common Core standards and tests.	Aaron Renn: Chicago's Diversification Challenge FIRE PODCAST - Aaron Renn of the urbanophile.com Web site has just completed an excellent months-long series of articles on Chicago and joins us to discuss the unofficial capitol of the Midwest, its recent past under former Mayor Richard M. Daley, and its present and future under current Mayor Rahm Emanuel.