I’ll Look Into It
Where we Look Into the Core issue
I’ll Look into it was developed with the assistance of station manager Louis Vandenberg at UC Riverside, and supported by 88.3 KUCR. This Public Affairs Program looks at various interesting topics in the community, where Dr. Tony K. Yang, researches and interviews various topics of interest.
You’ll hear recurring guests and topics on this show, but you’ll never
get repetition. Good radio shows have a diversity of guests. Based out of one of the world’s leading research university’s I’ll Look Into It has as diverse line up of world class leading experts on a variety of topics that span the spectrum. This means that when you tune in and listen to I’ll Look Into it, it’ll be a great experience and hopefully you’ll enjoy it.
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Tony K. Yang
MPA, PHD.
Dr. Tony K. Yang holds a PhD in History from the University of California Riverside and is a scholar of United States Economic History. He is Chinese American, Asian American, or Taiwanese American depending on the political situation and hails from the city of Sunnyvale, California. His primary research focuses on the interaction between social economic attitudes, the formation of savings behavior, and cultural and economic preferences in institutional interactions.
Tony’s dissertation is entitled, The Needs of a Lifetime: The Search for Security, 1865-1914 is an analysis of savings patterns and behaviors during the late-nineteenth century United States. Rather than accepting the notion that the United States lacked sufficient political, economic, or social institutions to implement broad based social insurance programs when compared to the European counterparts, Tony points to cultural preferences and institutional innovations as an explanation for the later development of social insurance in the United States.
The cultural preference for interacting with private savings institutions over public forms of social insurance created strong support for private individualized forms of savings rather than a collective form of social insurance. This was not merely an outgrowth of a listless preference for private markets, or solely the machinations of financial companies. Rather preferences for private institutions for savings were borne out of Victorian notions of rugged individualism and morality. This despite the growth of Civil War pensions which were de facto old age pensions. The experience with Civil War pensions, both in its divisiveness, dividing the North and the South, and in handing out money unearned by Americans, made Civil War pensions a lightning rod for political partisanship. But this program, along with financial innovations effectively forestalled the development of state centered social insurance programs by providing institutional alternatives.
Tony has presented several papers, publications, and is currently editing his manuscript of social insurance. Tony’s other fields of interest include: The Economic History of Slavery, 19th Century United States History, History of U.S. Foreign Relations, Modern Latin American (specifically the Caribbean), and of course a variety of sports.
“Now that I’m relevant I can’t get a job” – On the academic job market in 2008-2010
Meet The Compatriots for the Happy Hour
The Compatriots are really what makes the Happy Hour Happy! UC Riverside Alums, UC Employees, and Progressive minded educators with deep roots in California and the Inland Empire.
Alex Cortez, MS
Academic Coordinator, Lecturer, and Outreach Coordinator for the Dynamic Genome Program, UC Riverside
Alex is a long time Inland Empire Resident, advocate, community organizer and educator. He loves hiking, science and education. Hailing from Jalisco, Mexico and his hometown of Riverside California, Alex has been a force in science teaching and advocacy for 1st generations students, and science education on the local community. Alex also went to Graduate School with Dr. Tony K. Yang.
Clark Price
Higher Education Administrator, Music Producer, Man of Many Talents, Political observer
Clark Price is one of the most senior administrators in Higher Education and boasts of a significant portfolio. He has been a brilliant music career, and if need be he is a mechanical guru. But he is perhaps best known for his incisive views into politics both foreign and domestic. A long time Inland Empire political insider, Clark provides his view on politics with a fervent necessity.
The Crew
Production Staff
We don’t get very far without out our wonderful production staff. Based out of KUCR, the production staff do world class production with their amazing facilities. They do all the audio editing, along with the broadcast. This show is not done without the wonderful engineers, producers, and student at KUCR doing their best to polish and improve the show.
