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EPISODE · Jul 27, 2010 · 53 MIN

Do Libraries Really Matter?

from Which Way, L.A.?

Benjamin Franklin started America's first free lending library, and the Founders believed that access to information was essential to democracy. Now the City of Los Angeles is saving money by shutting down all public libraries two days a week to save money. Also, the suicide of a 5th grade boy who killed himself after LA County social workers went to his home but decided not to take action. On our rebroadcast of To the Point, the Shanghai Expo and America's economic decline.

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