For a longer piece. It is an extraordinary watershed, historical moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had black elected officials. 1500 we had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. And we did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1965. When we think about Public School desegregation and the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There was again racial progress, but that was really quickly closed off when we think about 1968. The assassination of Martin Luther king jr. , the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the assassination of malcolm x. Now, we have another effort. In
Susan dr. Peniel joseph, you and i planned this interview three months back, but we got sideways with the covid lockdown. As a historian, how are you processing this time this country is going through . Prof. Joseph i have been writing a lot, both opeds in for a longer piece. It is extraordinary watershed moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had 15 black elected officials. We had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. We did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1965. When we think about Public School desegregation and the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bute wa
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Host we will talk about the United States Postal Service. What do we know, right now, about the health and financial impacts that coronavirus has had on the United States Postal Service staff and revenue. Revenue . Guest we do not know nearly enough. We have a very clear picture of the Postal Service before coronavirus, and it was an agency struggling because mail volume has dropped 30 , and the agency has difficulty maintaining operating costs, but then coronavirus hit, and mail volume plunged as much as 30 already, because most of what gets sent is sent by businesses, and so much of america, so many of them are closed down. Host so, has the Postal Service ever been in a situation like they are in now . Have we ever seen this . Is this business as normal or have they always been in trouble like this . Guest 10 years ago the situation changed for the Postal Service. Fundamentally, because the mail volume stopped growing. You look at the data on mail volume over the course of the last 1
Today. And south korea, the Ruling Party Wins the election. Oil sits near an 80 year low amid a record collapsing u. S. Fuel demand. The trump is said to consider paying them to leave oil in the ground. We start this morning with a little bit of shaky ground. A reality check. For me, its about the bond market. You saw that drop in yields yesterday by 13 basis points. Its crazy to hold bonds. I turned to blackrock. I like what rick writer is saying. Basically, we will follow the fed. By bonds, etfs. What caught my eye, blackrock is getting ready to sell Interest Rates long. Nejra very interesting. A lot of people have been saying that in terms of buying what the fed is buying. If we get another initial jobless claims print above 5. 5 million which is the consensus, that would take the gains over four weeks in those initial jobless claims about 20 to you 22 million. One of the eight of the workforce out of work, wiping out the job gains since the last recession. Staggering numbers you ar