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While economists and politicians alike tout "thinking global" as a win-win situation, the USA's next-door neighbors to the north examine real life for working Americans in the new global economy. Manufacturing jobs lost: In North Carolina, for example, the textile industry is bleeding jobs at the rate of 17 every hour. In the heartland of Nebraska, dying family farms, and sick small towns whose local businesses can't compete with Wal-Mart, leave a legacy of rural poverty and crystal meth. And what of the industry that was supposed to take the place of those erstwhile economic mainstays – the so-called knowledge sector? It's being outsourced to Asia faster than you can click on a web link. Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, "America Up Close" puts America's vaunted economic supremacy under the microscope, presenting a warts-and-all portrait of the country as seen by its closest neighbor.
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While economists and politicians alike tout "thinking global" as a win-win situation, the USA's next-door neighbors to the north examine real life for working Americans in the new global economy. Manufacturing jobs lost: In North Carolina, for example, the textile industry is bleeding jobs at the rate of 17 every hour. In the heartland of Nebraska, dying family farms, and sick small towns whose local businesses can't compete with Wal-Mart, leave a legacy of rural poverty and crystal meth. And what of the industry that was supposed to take the place of those erstwhile economic mainstays – the so-called knowledge sector? It's being outsourced to Asia faster than you can click on a web link. Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, "America Up Close" puts America's vaunted economic supremacy under the microscope, presenting a warts-and-all portrait of the country as seen by its closest neighbor.
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Review of America Up Close
Like your neighbor coming over with white gloves to inspect your house, the CBC's America Up Close, paints a frank picture of the effects of globalization on America's Heartland.
In typically affable style, hosts Rick McGinnis-Rae, Pia Chattopadhyay, and Frank Coller travel to North Carolina, Nebraska, and Washington, D.C. and speak to people & politicians for a first person account of how the grand changes the global economy are changing the lives and dreams of rural Americans, leaving some with hope of new opportunities, and others in the dust, casualties of unemployment, their own naivete, and crystal meth.
Part of public radio's "Think Global" week, this program ( with a 5 minute hole for news ) would be a great addition to any weekday noon hour. AMERICA UP CLOSE's look at the Heartland of the Homeland, may be too close for comfort, but it's a show listeners will be glad to hear.