exploration. the ipaa, bern heart s former client repeatedly lobbied department officials to loosen restrictions. records reviewed by cnn show bern hea bernheart involved with three meetings on the issue. ipaa and other groups thanked him for his involvement and by december of 2018 the trump administration released a plan to amend protections and open vast swaths of western land for oil drilling. the industry requests and actions taken go on and on. fracking offshore drilling, easing of safety requirements, former clients asking and receiving favorable decisions from the government agency run by the former oil lobbyist. we re talking about the literal fox guarding the hen house but this administration doesn t mind the notion that a lobbyist is going to regulate the industry they used to work
at the table, director of the national domestic workers alliance. executive director of the brazilian and ph.d. candidate at boston university. annette a bern heart, policy co-director of the national employment and fellow at the roosevelt institute and dorian warren, professor at columbia university. nice to have you all here. thank you. we met a couple of years ago on a panel. i ve been so impressed with the work that the domestic workers alliance has been trying do to address these issues. explain to me the relevance of these kinds of findings. first of all, i think the fact that the study exists is already a huge breakthrough. because this is the first time we ve ever had national data and statistics on this workforce. it really contributes to the invisibility of the work itself and the role, the important role that this workforce plays in the economy. then i think the startling story