Created by americas Cable Television comedies as Public Service and brought to today by your Television Provider. This week on the communicators of democratic member of the federal trade commission, rebecca slaughter. Our guest reporter is leah nylund who covers technology and antitrust for politico. Commissioner slaughter, what has this pandemic fed like for you when it comes to your work at the ftc . Guest thank you so much for thinking for having me. It is a pleasure to be here today. Well, as you can see from my special guest here what this pandemic has involved for me in part has given me a brandnew baby and juggling those response abilities which is not a common occurrence for commissioners pandemic or no pandemic. Ive been muddling through that and then in terms of the work of the agency it has been a really important and really fascinating time. We switch to all telework pretty quickly and i will say it relatively seamlessly in march, which i was very impressed by but even thou
One of the most effective. You are about mobility of people and not been mobile. Whats the main lesson or surprise or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience and the last eight months or so . We lost about 80 of our business and eight weeks. We its been about a decade building. That was quiten surprising but the thing that may been more surprising is what happenedis next. What happened next is that people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic still had the desire to travel. They didnt want to get on planes, they were not necessary traveling for business. They didnt want to go to my hotel or they did want to get in the car and go to another community and live in that community and often some of them were getting homes with airbnb. Theres just this fundamental desire that people have to travel, to connect, to see the world and i dont think that anything could stop it let alone a pandemic. People have to do it responsibly but there is still a very
Lewis did joy spoke with the Economic Club of washington dc about postal club operations. In the handling of mailin ballots. He also talked about the impact of the coronavirus on the workforce. Let me first now go to our special guest the postmaster general lewis did joy. Thank you very much for giving us your time today. Thank you david for having me and i want to thank the Economic Club of washington for paying attention to me. Thank you for attending. You are the 75th postmaster general the first one is behind you i can see. He was the inventor of the Postal Service. You are a native of new york and you went to college in florida in stetson and then you went back to your familys business and you belted up in greensboro North Carolina and built into the Largest Logistics Companies in the United States. You had been very involved in philanthropic alma mater. Thank you for giving us your time today. O let me just ask at the outset when you agreed to be postmaster general did you realiz
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America, sunday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern, only on American History tv. Next, from the society for of american formulation annual conference, 99 years after the 19th amendment. The audiencens in to discuss the influence women have had on Foreign Relations its obtaining the vote in 1920. Coming toou for this panel, 99 years after the 19th amendment. , and you to our panelists caitlin mystery and jason x 10, who put this panel together and where the cochairs of the Conference Program committee, and are responsible for the Wonderful Program we will be enjoying over the next few days. Thek you as well to cosponsors of this event, the coordinating council for women the history and American Studies Department at the George Washington university. Scientists tell us that women played a bigger role in the 2018 elections than they had in any other election in American History. A Record Number of women are running for office, taking up seats in congress, and heading out on the president ial campaign