This country and what does it mean for the future of americas democracy fortunately were joined by people who have the answers to these questions in Miami Florida event alexander a director at the Knight Foundation which published a landmark study on american nonvoters last month named 100000000 project in washington d. C. Ted johnson a senior fellow at the Brennan Center which focuses on reforming the country systems of democracy and justice and in new york Kellan Edmonson the field director of head count which works to register voters to promote participation in democracy thank you all very much for joining us let me just start out showing this one graphic fascinating to me anyway it shows that in the 2016 race Hillary Clinton received 28. 00 and a half percent of the popular vote the United States donald trump received 27. 3 percent but those that didnt vote are 41. 3 percent so the nonvoters women in that in that particular case and i would figure that thats pretty distressing and
Warns widespread poverty could make latin america the next pandemic hotspot. We report from inside a hospital in tehran as iran warns of a 2nd wave of covert 19 infections. We begin in the United States where the trumpet ministration is ramping up measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic President Donald Trump says the military is being deployed as many states complain that theyre ill equipped to handle the outbreak more than 300000 people learned to be infected with the virus in the u. S. Over 8000 have died trump was warned of a tough week ahead saying close there will be a lot of death were going to be adding a tremendous amount of military. To help supplement the states thousands of soldiers souses thousands of medical workers professionals nurses doctors. And itll be a large number itll be will be telling them over the next very short period where theyre going and theyre going into war theyre going into a battle in the u. K. The number of people dying continues to rise 708 in t
Welcome alissa quart caught for a discussion of her new book going for broke, a collection of compelling, hard hitting first person essays, poems and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so Many Americans and demonstrates real ways to change our conditions. Well also have an audience q a at the very end of the evening, followed by a signing. If you have not yet already purchased or picked up your book, theyre available for purchase at the register and then once you get your copy there, you can find all of our panelists at this table here. Sue alistair will be joined in conversation by Molly Crabapple alex miller, celina su and astra taylor baylor. About the author. Editor facilitator this evening. Alissa quart is the author of bootstrapped liberating ourselves from the American Dream squeezed why our families cant afford america and branded the buying and selling of teenagers and two books of poetry. She is the executive director of the Economic Hardship reporting
Welcome alissa quart caught for a discussion of her new book going for broke, a collection of compelling, hard hitting first person essays, poems and photos that expose what our punitive social systemsamericans and deml ways to change our conditions. Well also have an audience q a at the very end of the evening, followed by a signing. If you have not yet already purchased or picked up your book, theyre available for purchase at the register and then once you get your copy there, you can find all of our panelists at this table here. Sue alistair will be joined in conversation by Molly Crabapple alex miller, celina su and astra taylor baylor. About the author. Editor facilitator this evening. Alissa quart is the author of bootstrapped liberating ourselves from the American Dream squeezed why our families cant afford america and branded the buying and selling of teenagers and two books of poetry. She is the director of the Economic Hardship reporting project and has written for many publi
Voting, we have to weigh those risks. Absolutely. And at least the agreement in front of me limits the risk. It is a completely unlimited risk. You may be right. They wont do that. What if youre wrong. What if in fact they will. There is a hard line as you pointed out in teheran. They are licking their chops to see this agreements falling apart. I think from all of the elements in iran they want this agreement because it is so good for them economically and it strengthens their position in the middle east. Doesnt do anything to stop them from supporting and in fact it helps them support their proxies throughout the region more than now. I want to agree with you that i cant predict whatll happen. I cant predict with certainty anymore than anybody can whatll happen if Congress Rejects the agreement. I can just say from what i have seen this morning and based on what i saw come out of lozan in april, this disagreement has more risk for the u. S. And more reward for iran than i hoped it wo