NWT Full Show, May 8, 2012

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    We go to Philadelphia City Council’s budget hearing with Tom MacDonald, for the School District’s testimony.  Peter Crimmins reports on the death of children’s author Maurice Sendak.  In our series on job training in the region, Emma Jacobs examines why the government isn’t subsidizing workforce development programs that could help people in poverty.  Maiken Scott reports on a play written by people suffering from addiction, and performed by professional actors. In our bi-weekly feature That’s History, Chris Satullo and Jonathan Zimmerman discuss the 1874 child abduction case that was the first to spark a nationwide alert.

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