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 This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, April 11th, 2024. Later in the program, we have Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half hour, Bloomington Mayor Kerry Thomson gave her first State of the City …

Council-Member Matt Flaherty speaks to his decision to sign an open letter opposing the eviction of the Seminary Park homeless encampment.

WFHB reporter Aaron Comforty interviewed Rev. Gilmore on the City's clandestine actions to remove a homeless encampment from Seminary Park.

The 1980’s farm crisis defined an entire generation of farmers and the rural communities that surrounded and relied on them. Interest rates soared. Farm land value dropped. A decade of record-breaking production in farm commodities led to a glut, a surplus, that depressed prices. Exports declined as the U.S. imposed an embargo on the Soviet Union. Farmers went bankrupt, foreclosed …

Today, workers in the United States are out of work. After the market free fall this spring, crowded lines at food banks replace crowded sports arenas. All industries contracted. Businesses of all sizes floundered. More than 20 million people lost their jobs in April alone, and 6.6 million unemployment claims were filed. In three months, we lost all of the …