Discusses Affordable Housing and the wealth gap. Clinton thank yall for joining us for the second edition of building an inclusive recovery. I hope wherever you are tuning in from, you are staying healthy and safe. I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude to our sponsors for this session. Those who have made action. I hope all of you will think about specific ways you and your organizations can make a difference or partner with others to increase your impact. Our topic today, the housing crisis, has plagued america long before covid19. Now, it is even more urgent. Especially in dense urban areas. They face new challenges. Home ownership has long been recognized as one of the most effective and Proven Solutions to Building Wealth and Financial Stability in america. ,ven before the pandemic homeownership rates for black americans were at an alltime low. Latino homeownership is the Fastest Growing of any group in the nation. But it still lags behind white ownership by more than 24
Spike . Youre going to open up special lines this money. First we want to hear from teachers. If you are a teacher, want to hear from you at 202 7488000. Arenistrators, we know you making the tough decisions on whether to open or close schools. Our number, 202 7488001 parents and students, you are the ones sending your children for school. Parents and students, 202 7488002. If you dont fit any of those categories, we still want to. Ear from you, 202 7488003 remember, you can always text us at 202 7488003 as well. We are always reading on social facebook. Witter and once again, we are in the middle spike and coronavirus schools are making tough decisions on whether they should bring children to school or restart Virtual Learning. In new york city they made the decision this week to in in Person Learning and send Children Home next week. Here is new york city mayor bill de blasio addressing how his decision will affect new york city residents. Here is a quick portion. Be re is going to o
Inside story of the generic drug boom and im talking t you today from massachutts. Im actually usuly based in brooklyn, new york, but were hunkering down in cape cod this summer. My book is a true crime expose of the generic drug industry an takes the readers deep into the distantanufacturing plants in india and china that make most of americas low cost medicines. Heavily reported over the course of 10 years, the book follows several key characters, an industry whistle blower, a fda investigator as they begin to uncover widespread fraud in these manufacturing plants. The question is, what made me want to pursue this topic . Im an investigative journalist and i have been at this for several decades, but in 2008, i got an unusual phone call that came from a radio show host on npr. He had the show called the peoples pharmacy. His name is joe braden, and he called me with a tip. He said that listeners were calling into his Radio Program and complaining about their generic drugs, they were
Yes. Auci obviously each individual family has to make, as i have said over the past few days, a riskbenefit assessment about the risk you are real you are willing to take in traveling and congregating in the usual warm 10, 15, 20 people at a home dinner. Although those are wonderful parts of our tradition, i would like to have each family make that Risk Assessment and know and understand we are in a very difficult situation where the rate of infection, the slope of infections are very, very steep. You might want to reconsider travel plans and certainly try as best as you can to keep congregant meetings indoors, as innocent and wonderful as they sound, to a minimal number of people, preferably just members of a household. I know this is a difficult thing to do, but we are in a very difficult situation. Better be careful now and look forward to many more in the future then endangering yourself or a vulnerable member of your family or friends, or what have you to the situation we are in
Phone lines split up as usual this morning. Democrats, 202 7488000 is the number to call in. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also send us a text. That number, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. You can catch up with us on social media, twitter and facebook. A very good monday morning to you. You can start calling in now. Theheadlines on this topic, first use of the vaccine maybe december 13. 40 million doses said to be available by the end of the month. That from the front page of usa today. Frontline gets the first vaccine doses, but then who . Thats the question we are asking this morning, asking you to be in the position of setting the priority, how would you do it . Turning to the cdc webpage there, i q a on how the cdc is making its covid19 vaccine recommendations. Making those disease vaccine recommendations based on the input from the Advisory Committee on immunization practices. Its a federal Advisory Committee