Fallout from the Panama Papers

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Hour 1

Guests: Gerard Ryle, James Henry

The Panama Papers, the largest whistleblower leak in history, has opened a window into the shadowy world of tax evasion, money laundering and offshore banking.  The 11 million confidential documents leaked from the Panama firm Mossack Fonseca reveal how business leaders, celebrities, and politicians, including 12 current or former heads of state, used shell companies and offshore accounts to hide their wealth and avoid taxes.  In this hour, we’ll look at what the documents reveal, the political and financial fallout, and possible reforms. We’ll also discuss why United States is one of the world’s leading tax havens. Marty’s guests are GERARD RYLE, director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and JAMES HENRY, senior fellow at Columbia University Center on Sustainable Investment and the author of Blood Bankers, Global Tax Fairness.

 

 

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An Examination of Suicide and Mental Health at the University of Pennsylvania and College Campuses across the United States

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Hour 2

Guests: Lauren Feiner, Lowell Neumann Nickey, Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber, and Ed Modica

On Monday, a University of Pennsylvania student passed away from what was deemed an apparent suicide. If this is the case, it would mark the tenth death by suicide of a Penn student in the past three years. Today on Radio Times, we’ll examine the issue of suicide among college students, check in with two students at the University of Pennsylvania, and discuss what is being done to address this public health issue. We’ll hear from LAUREN FEINER, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Pennsylvanian, about how students are feeling at Penn and how their paper has covered the issue. We’ll also hear from LOWELL NEUMANN NICKEY, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, who has convinced two friends not to take their own lives. For a national perspective we’ll be joined by KELLY POSNER GERSTENHABER, the founder and Principal Investigator of the Center for Suicide Risk Assessment at Columbia University. There are also legislative efforts to help college students. To talk about legislation that’s being considered in New Jersey we’ll talk with ED MODICA, a former teacher of Madison Holleran, a University of Pennsylvania student who died by suicide in 2014. He helped write the Madison Holleran Suicide Prevention Act, which would require mental health professionals be available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, to help students who attend college in New Jersey.

Note: If you need information about suicide, including prevention, you can visit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s website. If you, or someone you know, is in crisis they can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or text Crisis Text Line (text START to 741-741).