AmericasDemocrat.org Netcast - May 11th, 2014

Published: May 10, 2014, 8:47 p.m.

College admissions should about place, not race, says professor Sheryll Cashin. Government must work with business to create innovative ways of delivering services, says technology expert Aneesh Chopra. And Bill Press interviews an innocent man who was on death row.

 

In light of the recent Supreme Court decision, a perhaps surprising take on affirmative action from Georgetown law professor Sheryll Cashin. With the V.A. under attack by Republicans, the government’s first chief technology officer tells how the administration actually cleared up a backlog of claims and used information technologoy to empower veterans. And Bill Press interviews one-time death row inmate Kirk Bloodsworth

 

Sheryll Cashin

It’s 50 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, and Georgetown Law professor Sheryll Cashin says it’s time to substitute the students’ place in society and not their race in college admissions

http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/cashin-sheryll-d.cfm

Aneesh Chopra

Innovator Aneesh Chopra, the government’s first chief technology officer, talks about how innovation can better deliver services to the public, and uses the V.A. as an example of how to do it.

http://www.innovativestate.com/

 

Kirk Bloodsworth

Bill Press and his guest, Kirk Bloodsworth, the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA.

 

Jim Hightower

The GOP's minimum wage nuttiness.