Radio Show

Radio Show

Radio Show – "Family Policy Matters"
On this page, you can listen to some of our recent and archived radio shows. The show is updated weekly and is available in several formats. You can listen in quicktime, real, wma, or as an iTunes podcast. You will need a copy of real player player on your computer to listen. The basic real player is free and available from real audio. If you use an iPod or Mp3 player, you can listen to and download the show (about 8 megs) by clicking on the .mp3 download link. For your convenience, "Family Policy Matters" is now available as a free subscription on iTunes. Click on the "Podcast" button below to open iTunes and go directly to the "Family Policy Matters" page. If you don't have iTunes, visit the iTunes website for free software.

Now in its ninth year, our 15-minute radio show airs weekly on radio stations across North Carolina. We interview experts in their field on family policy issues and often discuss matters of recent research findings. The current show, as well as archived editions can also be heard by clicking on the appropriate link below.

If you would like to hear "Family Policy Matters" on a station where you live, and you do not see it listed here, please give us a call or email us the contact information at: admin@ncfamily.org.

This Week's Show

Dangers of Universal Preschool

This week, NCPFC President, Bill Brooks talks with Lindsey Burke, a research assistant in the Domestic Policy Studies Department at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. She is the author of a new Heritage Foundation report, entitled, “Does Universal Preschool Improve Learning? Lessons from Georgia and Oklahoma.” Lindsey discusses universal or government-funded preschool, why it is dangerous, and whether similar efforts at the state level have proven successful.

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Past Shows