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USA Inc: Karen Friedman, Pension Rights Center

618 views · Published 9 June 2011 · 25:52 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: CUNY TV · 2011 · News & Politics

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Taped:  02/10/2006.  Until recently it was only the really weak companies, in sick industries like airlines and steel that tried to reneg on their pension promises to their workers. Today perfectly healthy companies like Verizon and IBM are deciding they can no longer afford the pension plans they have been offering. Sara Barlett asks her guest Karen Friedman from the Pension Rights Center, "Why is this happening?" And "What does it mean to you and to our society generally?"  U$A Inc, currently not running on CUNY TV, offered a unique opportunity for senior members of the business community to share their thoughts on important business issues with a broad-based New York audience. While many business shows today seem focused on generating sound bites and tend to treat business as if it were a blood sport, U$A Inc allows for deeper discussion of the complex philosophical and ethical issues arising almost daily in the business world.  Host: Sarah Bartlett, Bloomberg Chair in Business Journalism at the Master's Program in Business Journalism at Baruch College.  Watch more at www.tv.cuny.edu/series/usainc

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