May 17 - The War on the Poor; Whites Now a Minority in Births; "The Greening of the Media"

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Part 1	We begin with a discussion about the war on the poor, declared this week at a “Fiscal Summit” in New York presided over by a billionaire deficit hawk who is championing the Ryan budget and promoting the belief that our fiscal woes are the result of too much spending on programs that help the middle class and the poor, and that these programs should be cut to reduce the deficit. Gary Rivlin, the co-director with Barbara Ehrenreich of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of “Broke USA”, joins us.
Part 2	We then look into the just-released report by the U.S. Census Bureau that finds white births are a minority in America with children from racial and ethnic minorities for the first time now accounting for more than half of the births in the U.S. Mark Mather, a demographer with the Population Reference Bureau joins us to discuss the divide between the older white population with the votes, money and power, and a growing young population that is foreign to them.
Part 3	Finally Toby Miller joins us in the studio. He is one of the world’s leading analysts of popular culture, media, and their connection to the politics of everyday life. His latest book is “Greening the Media” and we discuss the dirty secrets that hide inside our favorite electronic devices, debunking the myth that information and communication technologies are clean and ecologically benign, while arguing for ways to make the media greener.
	Music: My Morning Jacket - The Day Is Coming; MGMT - The Youth; Dire Straits - Money for Nothing