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Monday, February 18 2013

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    An 8-Year Wait for Citizenship | Sequestration Could Jack Up the Price of Meat | On the Brink of Insolvency: A Roadmap to Turning a City Around | Young Abraham Lincoln Young | The Let... (episode)

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    • Obama's 8-Year Plan for Undocumented Immigrants Leaked February 18, 2013

      A leaked White House plan for comprehensive immigration reform puts some 11 million undocumented immigrants on a path to citizenship after as little as eight years, and would put them...

    • Sequestration Could Jack Up the Price of Meat February 18, 2013

      While the cuts haven't come yet, Takeaway political correspondent Todd Zwillich reports that the sequester deadline will probably come and go, automatically enacting those across-the-...

    • On the Brink of Insolvency: A Roadmap to Turning a City Around February 18, 2013

      Detroit may be on the brink of insolvency. This is not the first time a US city has hit run into major financial problems. Cleveland did so in 1978, Philadelphia in 1991 and New York ...

    • Young Abraham Lincoln February 18, 2013

      Before he was our sixteenth president and the man who kept our union together, Abraham Lincoln was sort of a regular guy who made mistakes and had ambitions. In honor of President’s D...

    • Why We Cherish Letters February 18, 2013

      Listeners have been calling, emailing and texting us with stories about their most cherished letters -- missives from parents, grandparents, lovers and friends that have changed yo...

    • The Feminine Mystique at Fifty February 18, 2013

      Fifty years ago this week, Betty Friedan published "The Feminine Mystique."  The groundbreaking feminist text proclaimed that the stalled rigidity of sexual roles was out of step with...