Good afternoon, everyone. Sorry we are running a little bit behind today. On behalf of the American Enterprise institute i would like to welcome you for a talk with pamela paul about her recent book how to raise a reader. She coauthored with her colleague, maria russo. Colleague, maria russo. The Current Situation is untenable our kids have trouble with any kind of a structured activity but reading for pleasure is the activity that has suffered the most brick according to a recent analysis the share of americans who read for pleasure has fallen by more than 30 percent since 2004. If there is a way to reverse the trend it will have to start with their children and no one who can help us better than to learn how to share the joy they and pamela. She was the Childrens Book editor at the New York Times and has three children herself and also the author of six books and a host of the book review podcast. She and i will have a conversation and we will open to questions from the audience. Tha
Disaster at sea, 25 people confirmed dead after a dive boat burns off the california coast trapping tourists below deck. We hear from a couple who rescued five survivors. And finding innocent inmates. Hear from three wrongly convicted men released in a new effort by philadelphias District Attorney to shake up the Justice System. Its tuesday, september 3rd, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Please pray for us. Please pray for us, everyone. We are in the midst of an historic tragedy. Reporter Hurricane Dorian continues to pummel the bahamas. A category 3 storm battering the islands shredding homes and leaving miles of debris. A very dangerous and deadly hurricane. Millions of americans are under mandatory Evacuation Orders. A boat carrying dozens of people bursts into flames off the california coast. At least 25 people have died. You couldnt ask for a worse situation. The Trump Administration has walked back a plan to end deportation protections for sick, undocumen
good evening, everyone. welcome to cnn tonight. former vice president mike pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating donald trump to testify about his former boss. a special counsel seeking information from pence about his interactions with donald trump leading up to the election and what happened on january 6th. [ chanting ] nothing like that or like this has ever happened before. plus, the latest installment of the george santos soap on that raffle we have new info involving puppies, amish dog breeders and $15,000 worth of bad checks. and what liberals can learn from ron desantis. there s a piece in the new york time that warns liberals not to underestimate desantis. he may resemble trump but not in his intellect or resolve. right to the news. with me in studio, we have natasha, former assistant special watergate prosecutor nick ackerman and john berman. seamless, people. seamless. you walked all the way over here. across a bridge, everyone. gre
nonfiction writer and reporter. who was not only great at what he did but also cared a lot about the field. this kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say. but it s a distinct community of people who really care about it and are devoted to it and help and support each other and it was very important to tony to be part of that community. he puts on with me as is sort of deputy a big conference on nonfiction writing. the new york state writers institute in albany back in 91 or 92 telling the truth. at the time of his death he was the president of the authors guild. he just did as much as he could possibly do, not just for his own work but for other people who do his work. and i think he would be really pleased to see what this program named after him has become. we never got to know mark linton because he had died by the time we started this program. i got to know hiswidow and his children who were here very well . and i gather he was an equally remarkable man but i
prepandemic occupants on-site at some point during the week. online job postings also reflect differences in remote work between large and small cities. in san francisco, 26% of postings permit remote work. in birmingham, alabama, that number is just 10.4%. there s debate of what drives the difference. is it work habits? commutes? in a moment, i m going to ask scott calloway what he thinks. a second story caught my eye the same day. it had to do with friendship and economic mobility and so much more. raj chedy and colleagues released a study, the social met works of 2.2 million users between 25 and 54. the searchers didn t have names or identities, but they were able to use zip codes to estimate income, college, and other characteristics. the conclusion that drove the headlines was theis. for the poor, the best ticket out of poverty is having wealthy friends. it s called economic connectedness. the more connections between the rich and the poor, the better the neighborhood wa