November 2, 2009

If You C.A.R.E. About Preventing Truancy Special Guest: Eason Ramson - C.A.R.E. Program Director YMCA's C.A.R.E. Program Director, Eason Ramson joins Allen to discuss C.A.R.E.'s nine-week educational program that provides truant youth with an innovative map to graduation and the support needed to make it there. The Dangers of Schoolyard Pollution Special Guest: Blake Morrison - USA Reporter & Grantham Prize Winner, Co-Author - The Smokestack Effect 2009 Winner of the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment, Blake Morrison joins Allen to talk about the research that he, and fellow USA Today reporter Brad Heath, did to uncover the major industrial pollution affecting more than 128,000 school playgrounds in and around major U.S. cities.