Johnson, the executive director for the American Immigration lawyers association, talk about prospects for Immigration Reform in 2018. Washington journal is live, now. Good morning, it is wednesday, january 3, 2018. At noon, the second session of the 115th congress will convene pursuant to the u. S. Constitution. In the senate, the session will begin with two new faces when doug jones and tina smith are sworn in. We have a threehour washington journal ahead for you and we will spend our focus on what is expected to be a major issue, immigration. Toare opening our phones immigrants only, to hear your story of coming to an living in the United States. Recent legal immigrants can call in at 202 7488000. If you are a legal immigrant who has lived in this country for five years or longer, 202 7488001. Illegal, undocumented immigrants, 202 7488002. You can also catch up with us on social media on twitter, on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. A good wednesday morning. Immigrants only in this fir
Now to be on the wall was the cane she used to get around that was very important for her. Toward the end of her life, she was bedridden for much of her time. There is a wonderful photo of her drinking out of this drinking cup here. It was given to her by her very dear friend mary mercer. ,it has her name engraved on it. That was something she kept at her bedside throughout her life. Carson was married to reeves mccullers. Soldier stationed at fort benning that she met when she went here. They had a very tumultuous relationship. Tragedyately ended in when reeves committed suicide. There is a lot of emotional misunderstanding and infidelity on both sides throughout their relationship. There was also a real love their and something that connected them with their love of literature and writing. So, these are two books that reeves gave her. In particular, this one you see here says christmas 1936 two o carson, these books and my deepest affection, reeves. Even though the relationship was n
One of the questions is what we have that same level of intuition of those of their Financial Lives in the United States . So i gave a different type of insight so i think they knew there should be a local presence as well provide the local color. So tell us a little bit about how you were a the local color. We work on Financial Health that the time this is a number of years ago were really focused on the banks pounded out of the idea to have more people to have Financial Access we did the First National steady to understand what it meant of the National Public steady about that. One of my a things my boss asked me to do is figure out our next research we both have learned about financial diaries in south africa. So we were really inspired that helped me to reach out to jonathan so i had been asking questions about this project trying to figure ive this is the research we want to do so was a natural fit. Jonathan is so fascinating you go to countries like bangladesh people say a povert
One of the questions is what we have that same level of intuition of those of their Financial Lives in the United States . So i gave a different type of insight so i think they knew there should be a local presence as well provide the local color. So tell us a little bit about how you were a the local color. We work on Financial Health that the time this is a number of years ago were really focused on the banks pounded out of the idea to have more people to have Financial Access we did the First National steady to understand what it meant of the National Public steady about that. One of my a things my boss asked me to do is figure out our next research we both have learned about financial diaries in south africa. So we were really inspired that helped me to reach out to jonathan so i had been asking questions about this project trying to figure ive this is the research we want to do so was a natural fit. Jonathan is so fascinating you go to countries like bangladesh people say a povert
About whats happening in peoples Financial Lives in the us . We have a ton of data and yet somehow this and managed to give a different kind of insight so the funders really wanted to do that work here. But i think they knew and jonathan knew there could be a local partner so ive always described myself as the local color on the project. But that was my original role. Tell us a little bit about how you were the local color. I work at a place called the centerfire Financial Services innovations and we work on dental health, trying to improve the Financial Health of americans but at the time, we were spending, we were focused on theissue of being under banked. And we were founded out of this idea to get more people dental access and we did a lot of research, we did the First National study of to understand what it meant to be under banked, the public study about that sowhen i joined , my first job was one of the things my bossfirst asked me to do , jennifer toucher who founded it said yo