Laura Curran, Richard Wolff & Emma Waters on State of the Nation - 19 April 2023

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Laura Curran served as Nassau County Executive, serving 1.3 million residents on Long Island. She’s also a former New York City reporter. In “Cut to the Chase,” Laura combines the two to take an unflinching look at the important issues that affect all our lives — no matter where we are on the political spectrum. Politics, media, current events, culture. Fearless, thought-provoking conversations that get right to the point.

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City College of the City University of New York (1969-1973). In 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris (France), I (Sorbonne). Wolff was also regular lecturer at the Brecht Forum in New York City.

GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: Emma Waters is a Research Associate for the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion and Family at The Heritage Foundation. Her work focuses on marriage and family, the life issue, and assisted reproductive technology policy. Emma is also a Visiting Fellow with Independent Women’s Forum where she writes on issues related to culture, sex and gender, and the family. Prior to this, she worked as the Coalitions Manager of American Moment and periodically co-hosted their podcast, Moment of Truth. Previously, she worked as a Research Intern with the Institute for Family Studies and a Research Consultant for the Realignment Podcast. In 2021, she won the American Enterprise Institutes’ Young Scholars Award where she wrote and published an in-depth paper on child support policy in the state of Tennessee, including qualitative interviews with 25 non-resident fathers.