NWT Full Show, Dec. 02, 2011

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    The nation’s unemployment level may have decreased, but Carl Van Horn, Director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, shares the results of a new study in which many Americans claim the recession permanently altered their standard of living. Emma Jacobs reports on the Delaware County oil refinery planning on shutting down in the coming months. Editor-in-Chief of the Gallup Poll Frank Newport speaks with us about the state of the Occupy movement. Maiken Scott checks in on a rehearsal of The State Street Miracles, a performing group for people with intellectual disabilities.  And Peter Crimmins intruduces us to the Magnetic Resonator Piano.

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