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Friday, October 30, 2015
Welcome to our Weekend Edition show. Kerby welcomes Star Parker founder and president of The Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), a public policy think tank that promotes market-based solutions to fight poverty. Also on the show today are previous guests, Dr. Merrill Matthews who is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation and Debbie Georgatos.
Welcome to our Weekend Edition show. Kerby welcomes Star Parker founder and president of The Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), a public policy think tank that promotes market-based solutions to fight poverty. Also on the show today are previous guests, Dr. Merrill Matthews who is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation and Debbie Georgatos.

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Kerby Anderson

Kerby Anderson

Host — Point of View

Kerby Anderson is host of Point of View Radio Talk Show and also serves as the President of Probe Ministries. He holds masters degrees from Yale University (science) and Georgetown University (governm...

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Star Parker

Star Parker

Founder|President — The Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)

Star Parker is one of the names on the short list mentioned when anyone speaks of national black conservative leaders.Star Parker is the founder and president of The Center for Urban Renewal and Educa...

Star Parker is one of the names on the short list mentioned when anyone speaks of national black conservative leaders.Star Parker is the founder and president of The Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a public policy think tank that promotes market-based solutions to fight poverty. Before involvement in social activism, Star had seven years of first-hand experience in the grip of welfare dependency. After consulting on federal Welfare Reform in the mid-90s, she founded UrbanCure to bring new ideas to policy discussions on how to transition America's poor from government dependency. Star has a bachelor's degree in Marketing and International Business from Woodbury University and has received numerous awards and commendations for her work on public policy issues. She regularly consults with both federal and state legislators on market-based strategies to fight poverty; she has spoken on more than 190 colleges and universities about anti-poverty initiatives; has authored several books; and is a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. Many of national acclaim would agree that Star Parker has established herself as a thoughtful and energetic leader in Washington D.C and her UrbanCure advisory board includes folks of note such as Generals John Ashcroft and Ed Meese; Doctors Ben Carson, Robert P. George, George Gilder, Marvin Olasky and Walter E. Williams.

Debbie Georgatos

Debbie Georgatos

Lawyer, political consultant, — field_542d8190101fc

Debbie Georgatos is a lawyer, political consultant, conservative activist and author, whose first book, Ladies, Can We Talk? America Needs Our Vote! encourages women to embrace liberty-upholding conse...

Debbie Georgatos is a lawyer, political consultant, conservative activist and author, whose first book, Ladies, Can We Talk? America Needs Our Vote! encourages women to embrace liberty-upholding conservative solutions to the challenges America faces. Her book and book talks inspire women to step up and take a prominent leadership role in the American political conversation, and to recognize that they have tremendous power to shape America’s future. Debbie brings to America’s political dialogue a unique mix of lawyerly logic, patriotic passion, and a friendly and personal tone, and she proves in a variety of policy arenas that women, and all people, fare better under free-market and limited government solutions to all of the challenges America faces. She connects the dots between the “big government will take care of everything” politics of the American Left, and the crushing of individual opportunity, incentive, achievement and ultimately, happiness.

Dr. Merrill Matthews

Dr. Merrill Matthews

Resident Scholar — Institute for Policy Innovation

Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.co...

Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.com. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and, in 2009, Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud). He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network. Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas

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