In the past, unmarried women over the age of 27 were labeled as leftovers. But now there are approximately 100 million single women in china, many of whom have moved to urban areas. In chinas major cities, single women outnumber single men four fold. Recently, businesses are targeting this single woman economy. One example is an increase i in the number of ckaraoke boxes fo single use. This new breed of unattached women symbolizes how women can be financially independent in modern china. This episode of asia insight takes a look at theirir present and their future. Beijing, which has the largest percentage of single women in china. She came to beijing in 2015. She grew up in a wealthy family where both her parents were company owners. Wang training at this gym twice a day, in the morning and the evening. Wangs home is a ten minute walk away from the gym. She has rented a familysized apartment for 2,000 u. S. A month. The 90 square meter apartment has three roomoms, as well as a kitchen
Aristocratic bachelorettes. They someone conformity and try to live their lives on their own terms. They either invest their earnings in themselves or splash out. This is one such bachelorette. She is a freelance fund manager and makes 60,000 u. S. A year, nearly twice the average income for their age group. These bachelorettes aim to enrich their lives with fulfilling jobs and exciting private lives. In the past, unmarried women over the age of 27 were labeled as leftovers. But now there are approximately 100 million single women in china, many of whom have moved to urban areas. In chinas major cities, single women outnumber single men four fold. Recently, businesses are targeting this single woman economy. One example is an increase in the number of ckaraoke boxes fo single use. This new breed of unattached women symbolizes how women can be financially independent in modern china. This episode of asia insight takes a look at their present and their future. Beijing, which has the larg
Ok, everybody take a seat. Democrats. G welcome to virginia blue commonwealth gala. This is important, so i want yall to listen up. Before we get started tonight, listen up. We talkportant that about the pain and sorrow suffered on may 31 in Virginia Beach. Here in virginia, and across the country, we are all too familiar with this pain. Action to stop the scorch of gun violence. And we will take it immediately. We will honor the 12 members of our Virginia Beach community, who we love. Who we love, with our actions. I agree with the governor, he said bots and prayers are not enough. We need action. Room, i dot, in this ask for we have a lot of people from the Virginia Beach community with us tonight, please stand. I asked that you all please stand with them and follow the solidarity for a moment of silence in their memory. Thank you. Crowd. This there are 1800 democrats here tonight. [cheers and applause] one for every democrat running for president. [laughter] in all seriousness, help
Magazines segment, democracy under strain. Peter, thank you for being here. Guest thank you for having me on. Host what prompted an eightpa rt series, democracy under strain . Well, we are trying to find out what adds to the conversation. We look at all the stuff going wrong with democracy today. Partisanship is out of control. Isre is gridlock, nothing getting done. Peter has been around a while, and he can look and see how these things stretch beyond the trumpcare wreck how they started, and where they are going. Host so the most recent piece was entitled block the vote the history of efforts to change and contain and change voting practices in america. On voting access, and what did you find . Thet well, i started with vote. Voting is of course the core aspect of democracy. It is how we participate, and there are a lot of issues surrounding voting right now. Is onely Voting Rights that a lot of democrats and republicans are fighting about. The statesnd is that are really going into
We begin with a new debate in the 2020 campaign and the issue of democratic socialism, something that Bernie Sanders talked about in his speech at George Washington university and in a recent cnn interview. We want to ask you this question , specifically, would you be willing to pay more taxes for Free Education and health care . Here are the numbers. 202 7488000 if you say yes. 202 7488001 if you say no. You can also join us on social media at cspan wj on twitter [video clip] twitter. J on we want to get your calls and comments in a minute, but to frame the argument there is this the new york magazine. Why does bernie so fervently cling to the issue of democratic socialism. Host thats this morning from new yorker magazine. Getting to your calls in a moment, but first, following his speech at George Washington university, which is by the way available at our website, senator sanders appeared on cnn and was asked this question. [video clip] onlye United States is the major country on ea