Taking on Wall Street
Wednesday, October 12 2011
TAKING ON WALL STREET
One of the protestors in the Occupy Wall Street action is Riley Waggaman. He’s living in a tent in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan and has been there for the better part of two weeks. He’s 24, unemployed and overwhelmed with college debt - and he says he's making a difference.
GETTING HER DUE
Ever noticed a sniffling check-out clerk when going through a grocery line and wondered why they didn’t stay home? Tasha West Baker says some of them can’t afford to. Tasha works as a checker at a local Safeway store in Seattle. She became an activist to get paid sick days and she helped change the law there. Photo: Tasha, second from left, watches Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn sign the Paid Sick Leave bill into law.
$100 - A NEW PERSPECTIVE
Rick Olsen lost his job as the Chief Operating Officer of a small high tech company. When he didn’t immediately land a job, he began to rethink what a paycheck really means. Because of that deep thinking, he made one big change.
BIRTH OF THE FRITO
It was a bowl of stale tortillas that inspired C.E. Doolin, the inventor of the Frito corn chip. Sit down and hear the history from producers Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, the Kitchen Sisters.
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