and what will probably be a bumpy ride all the way to november 8th. president biden is talking about the normalization of political violence, the spread of big lies, and one ever-growing donald trump who is calling for lawlessness and promises, even promising pardons to those convicted of violent insurrection and crimes. trump took the stage last night for the first time since the fbi searched his home. he claimed that they searched the room of his wife and teenaged son, and again ramped up the dangerous rhetoric against president biden, and against law enforcement. because we should not forget the good news, the cdc recommending a new booster to fight the highly contagious omicron subvariant, and the economy guesting a boost with another solid month of job creation, and there may be some hope ahead for the residents of jackson, mississippi, who are now in their seventh door without clean water. in a moment, i will ask the head of fema about the progress made to end that cris
equity with over a fifth of survey respondents saying that their own personal experiences with racial in equality have influenced their career choice. the pandemic also accelerated the demand for remote work availability, made employee well-being a top focus, and has put pressure on, for better compensation. how can these shifts in worker preferences be leveraged to energize people in to the labor movement? well, the pandemic deemed everybody essential workers and if we re essential, that weens we re a necessity, that means the company needs us and if they need us and we re essential workers, they need to pay us and treat us as such. i think right now what we need to do is make sure we know our value as workers. you know, our value is a lot more than what we ve been getting in the past.
understand the barriers that communities have to accessing our programs. the barriers to fundamental resources, to help them be better prepared against disasters, so we really focused on increasing the amount of resiliency in communities, with the specific focus on those communities that have traditionally been underserved and had a hard time accessing funds. we will certainly be watching and hopeful as we face these unpredictable situations, but predictable that if you negligent infrastructure in certain cities in certain communities, they are going to suffer when those situations arise, like jackson. i can t tell you how concerned i am, after katrina, and flint, to here we go. fema administrator criswell, i thank you for being with us tonight. after the break, black americans rise up, as a new phase of the pandemic takes
themselves, and some that do not brace themselves, given global warming, i m saying that areas could be hit, how are we dealing with those areas like jackson that have been neglected that are now going to face what could be an unpredictable winter and fall? yeah, you know, what we re seeing, again, as we see communities like jackson, that are often disproportionately impacted by the variety of disasters that we re seeing, and so it s ad campaigns like this that are really helping a community be prepared, but a focus that fema has really had is on how do we help reduce the impact that these communities are seeing from the disasters? and that s why we put equity, and really one of the leading principles that we are following as we are helping communities get better prepared and how we re going to deliver our services. we wanted it to really