Progressivism less and to think about what i think its core dialect guy dialectic was. The tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds and the progressive era believed were important, and they believed they were not incompatible but you can see in some ways in which they were fundamentally add some tension. Throughout class today, well be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. The central question for this historians of the early at 20 century is what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressivism, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around knowing the progressive era existed but quibbleing about what counted as progressive severe them and who counted and when it started and when it ended. Some people limit only to the Political Party that it was named for. Others to find it much more broadly. For me, in this class, this is
Sit down and talk. Shes calling coronavirus economic shutdown total insanity and shes here to explain why she believes that las vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman on this edition ticket. Was going to politicking on larry king as the u. S. Covert 19 death toll can be as sure rise and the disease invades the white house President Trump focuses on reopening the economy with the majority of states following his cue joining me now to talk about her hopes to reopen her city for business is Carolyn Goodman mayor of las vegas. A position shes held since 2011 shes called the current Coronavirus Business shut down total insanity and generate a lot of controversy of the photo and the idea of using vegas as a control group for testing whether social distancing actually works the mayor joins us from the view change any of you opinion gowan you know i think what i was trying to get across is we werent broken you know you dont build a city with such great. Tourism and convention numbers if we hadnt already
Would show the whole world that we were safe from wonderful place Great Entertainment great food Great Conventions and across the most fabulous weather you could imagine so it was a turn the entire and the last time a survey says the vegas will open in certain degrees over the next month or so will have if they have tables theyll be separated separate from slot machines no nightclubs. Restaurants limited capacity isnt that a good start. Well you know i dont think much has changed thats the tragedy we still dont have our arms around this very significant virus that really has set a death toll around the world. So we really are where weve always been with that were very aware of it and everybodys terribly concerned a lot of people are extremely frightened and certainly i understand that but it is we have no prevention yet. We have no treatment if ones diagnosed yet and we certainly have no vaccine yet so far so i sent them the city if all 0 since you say a true why open the city. Where p
A theyre all filing for Unemployment Insurance now weve got a whole industry of independent contractors. That are going to be able to get paid and cant get an image and we just see if low down in the rest right now weve got school loans being weve got businesses closing and so its important to provide relief as quickly as possible to individual workers who are affected as well. Is it going to get wars before it gets better. You know larry and 14 i think its going to get much much worse and i think depending on how long this goes on itll tell us what the recovery the problem out to many. 100 will live paycheck to paycheck Small Businesses this country generally operate with a very slim profit margin so they can probably withstand workers Small Businesses maybe you know a week or 2 of disruption but boy this goes on for a month or so im worried that a lot of the Small Businesses will never recover and then theres that disruption throughout society whether its you know school kids not wor
Crisis to get resolved and then well deal with the economic damage at the end you are advocating a one to 3 month economic shutdown what it what does that entail. Well i look at my peers who i dont know read so wonderfully much ident heres what i do know is that this is a Public Health crisis and we need to result the Public Health crisis 1st before we deal with any kind of. Assessing what the economic recovery should look like so right now what i would do is ensure that workers get money in their bank account so that they can bike rosaries that they can pay that rat Small Businesses to get even a forbearance on their low lease payments and then i think in general throughout the society we look at all the different ways that we can upload off some of that debt that people have to pay every month again whether its Student Loan Debt auto debt card debt just basically its sort of it we can kind of keep some sense of financial ability until this Public Health crisis eases up and when that