Summer Friday: Guaranteed Jobs; WFH Future; Neighborly Mask Enforcement; Activism While Parenting; Summer Travel; Revisiting Bird Songs

On this Summer Friday, enjoy some of these recent favorite conversations, with an emphasis on our listeners' contributions to the public conversation:

• Pavlina Tcherneva, associate professor at Bard College and research scholar at the Levy Economics Institute and the author The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity, 2020), talks about the Modern Monetary Theory and why it allows for full employment at a living wage -- even now.
• David Streitfeld, tech reporter for The New York Times, discusses how work from home setbacks from the past inform telecommuting decisions in the future.
• Jen Chung, editor of Gothamist, takes your calls on how you're enforcing best practices to prevent the spread of Covid-19, for example, by wearing masks properly and social distancing.
• Clint Smith, writer, author of the poetry collection Counting Descent and the forthcoming nonfiction book How the Word Is Passed (Little, Brown 2021), talks about how his activism has changed since having children, and takes your calls on how parenting informs how you protest.
• Callers tell us how they’re dealing with summer travel while coronavirus cases continue to rise across the country.
• At the height of spring migration, Heather Wolf, web developer for Cornell Lab of Ornithology and its eBird project and the author of Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront (The Experiment, 2016), helps us identify the birds we're hearing - and recreating - on the air.

These interviews originally aired earlier this year. Links to the unedited audio are here: 

Jobs, Guaranteed (June 30, 2020)

Why Working From Home Might Not Work (July 1, 2020)

A Neighborly COVID Enforcement Call-In (June 24, 2020)

Parenting and Protest (June 4, 2020) 

Is COVID-19 Changing How You Travel? (July 2, 2020)

Name That Birdsong! (May 14, 2020)