• W. Bruce Cameron, author of “A Dog’s Purpose,” calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about his book
• Stephanie Schriock, President of EMILY’s List, calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the midterm elections, and the Sarah (Palin) Doesn’t Speak for Me series
• John Fugelsang calls in at 11:05am ET / 8:05am PT for another edition of “Fridays With Fugelsang”
• John Amato, founder of CrooksAndLiars, calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about his new book, “Over The Cliff: How Obama’s Election Drove The American Right Insane”
• President Obama is making it official today: Wall Street critic Elizabeth Warren will be a special adviser overseeing the creation of a new consumer protection bureau with vast powers to enforce regulations covering mortgages, credit cards and other financial products.
• Nervous Democratic incumbents in Congress received a sliver of good news Thursday from a new poll that found them tied with Republicans when people were asked which party they’d vote for in November.
• A report Thursday showed that the ranks of the working-age poor in this country have climbed to the highest level since the 1960s. In 2009, the Census Bureau said, the overall poverty rate hit 14.3 percent — or one in seven Americans — with 43.6 million people living in poverty. That was up from 39.8 million in 2008. The 2009 poverty level was set at $21,954 for a family of four.
