NewsWorks Tonight, August 31, 2018
Listen 23:01A controversial contract between the City of Philadelphia and federal immigration authorities comes to an end, Abraham Gutman joins the show to give an overview. A Senate hopeful in Delaware gets some help on the campaign trail from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A Philly labor union moves its training center closer to home. We head back to the opening of the Hopewell Furnace eighty years ago. NewsWorks Tonight’s Dave Heller sat down with Frank Newport, editor-in-chief at the Gallup Poll, to discuss how Americans feel about their work lives.
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NewsWorks Tonight was a daily radio show and podcast that ran from 2011-2018. It is no longer in production, but the show's archive is available online.
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