Committee as well. Republican of North Carolina. Thank you for talking to our viewers. Greta, its been a pleasure to be with you and to answer the calls as well. We want to welcome to our table Michele Jawando at the center for American Progress. Vice president for legal progress. Thanks for being here for this conversation. Thanks for having me. I want to start with the Police Shootings in North Carolina, in charlotte and tulsa. And talk about the trend. The Washington Post has a story this morning that Police Shootings are on par to be what they were last year, around 1,000 police killings. So, you know, as we begin to kind of consider this moment again for communities of color, particularly the Africanamerican Community, there seems to be a vicious loop that continues to play out. And i think sometimes we separate the hash tags or seeing the protests, and we forget these are family members. These are husbands. These are fathers. And while we as a country are reeliing with this trage
That would i just poverty by increasing Economic Growth and wage growth and job creation . If you look at the data, we never recovered to normal since the last recession. We do not recover to normal levels of wage growth. What is the best way to address Economic Policy to get the economy growing again . What ideas does anyone have to adopt policy . Why dont we run down anybody anybody . Taxeed a reduction in the that is slowing a Economic Growth slowing Economic Growth. We may never return to levels of Economic Growth. We are not going to see the labor force increase significantly. Right now it is on immigration that is keeping our population even stable. I think we are not going to see increases. Michael, you talked about that already. Minorities have moved into the labor force, we are not considered again. Automationng toward as of the tools for growth and productivity. I think we may not return to the the 4 to 5 growth of the past. To the degree that we can, i think it is going to r
Wages fell. Were opening up our phone lines to get your sense of the u. S. Economy. Call us and let us know what is happening in your job and with your paycheck. Is your income rising . Is it falling, staying flat in this economy . We split our phone lines up recently this morning. If you are in the eastern or central time zones 202748800. In mounted pacific, in mountain or pacific its 202 7488001. Good saturday morning to you. A few headlines on the monthly jobs report that came out yesterday morning. Here is Bloomberg Business payrolls in the u. S. Surge while wages drop in mixed jobs report. This is the Financial Times headline. Data highlights the dilemma for the fed at the next meeting over any further Interest Rates rising. A headline from the wall street journal. Job gains ease recession worry. Nnonfarm payrolls rose by 252,000. And the prior two months were revised up by 35,000 jobs. The on a plummet rate held steady at 4. 9 as more americans jump into the job market the Unempl
And think of a clean sustainable system where our homes are efficient and our transportation is energy efficient, where we move aggressively to talk about solar, wind, geothermal, and other sustainable technologies, we can create millions of goodpaying green jobs [cheers and applause] senator sanders let me repeat now what i have been criticized for saying on many occasions. Let me be Crystal Clear and say it again. And that is, it is my view, that health care is a right of all people, not a privilege. [cheers and applause] senator sanders now, the Corporate Media does not talk about this a whole lot. They are too busy getting as from the insurance and the Drug Companies. Let me tell you what they may not see on tv. We are the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care to all all as a right. They do it in the u. K. , france germany, scandinavia, holland. I live 50 miles away from the canadian border, they do in canada. Right now, as a result of the gains of the Aff
Announcer daughters of the American Revolution was founded in 1890. The National Headquarters was found a few blocks from the white house. Next, american artifacts, a visit to the dar museum, remembering the American Revolution, 17761890. We begin with this visit to america by revolutionary war hero general lafayette. My name is Heidi Campbell shaof. I am the director and chief curator of the museum. The first section is the early 19th century. The second section talks the 19th century through the 1850s and what happens in that period. And the last section takes us through the 1890s and that connects us back to the American Revolution. The discussion of the 19th century and the American Revolution wouldnt be complete without talking about lafayettes visit. The Marquis Lafayette was 19 years old when he came to america to fight in the revolution. He was a french aristocrat and when i talk to students about this and i say he was 19 we think about 19yearolds today what were you like when