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SoCal Connected: Episode 114

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January 1, 2009

SoCal Connected: Episode 112

By SoCal Connected
December 18, 2008

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I.O.U.S.A.

By Producer Christal Smith
December 12, 2008

I.O.U.S.A is a new documentary that is as well timed as it is dismal. A movie about the national debt crisis starring Warren Buffet, Paul Volker and Alan Greenspan? It may not be the most fun you have at the movies (The Village Voice calls it:” a bowel-rattling cry of fiscal doom”), but it will open your eyes to what I now think of as the fiscal forest we can still barely make out, even the economic indicator trees are falling all around us. That’s right, our national debt is something else to be worried about. Very worried.

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Trained to Be Thrifty

By Val Zavala
December 11, 2008

This is video of my entrepreneurial moment at the Glendale Swap meet. I am selling a hat rack to a lucky bargain hunter. Since we were doing a shoot at the Glendale Flea market, I took the opportunity to rid my garage of a few choice items. When all was said and sold I netted a whole $9 bucks!

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SoCal Connected: Episode 111

By SoCal Connected
December 11, 2008

A Middle Class Christmas

By Web Team
December 11, 2008

The Maxwell’s consider themselves a typical, middle class family, living a typical middle class life in the suburbs of Southern California. But, the economic downturn hit the Maxwell’s hard and they’re re-thinking what it means to be Middle Class, especially this holiday season.

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Commentary

By Kevin Roderick
December 11, 2008

There’s been justifiable concern in Los Angeles over financial troubles at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Losing MOCA would be a major cultural blow.

But another Southern California institution at risk of collapse would leave an even larger hole in the region.

That’s the local news media.

Safe Haven

By Correspondent Judy Muller
December 11, 2008

Follow a day in the life of the Los Angeles Public Library, as Phillip Saffell shows us how this public space serves as his home.

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Thrift Economy

By Correspondent Angie Crouch
December 11, 2008

These days, most everyone is looking for ways to save money. But many people are also looking to make money. When the economy shrinks, what’s known as the informal economy swells. Legions of scrappy entrepreneurs make their way in an industry that operates beyond the four walls of conventional commerce. It's a little known world where people buy and resell used goods. And when times get tough, their business starts booming.

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Inside Locke High - Student Reactions

By Angela Shelley
December 10, 2008

Our show, “Inside Locke High” tells the story of the troubled high school’s transition from LAUSD to the charter school company, Green Dot, through the eyes of three typical students - Joanna, Damon and Bryan. They each tell their own story. In their own words. In their own way. It’s definitely not a typical, paint-by-numbers TV show.

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