Im truly delighted to be here this evening to welcome Darren Walker to duke. Walker to duke. He serves as president of the Ford Foundation and will be our 2020 Terry Sanford distinguished lecturer. I have to say, given all of mr. Walkers extraordinary accomplishments, whoever introduces him has their work cut out for them. Born in lafayette, louisiana, Darren Walker was one of the first children in the nation to benefit from the head start program. He went on to were a scholarship at the university of texas at austin, where he would graduate with degrees in government, speech communication, and law, before pursuing a successful career as an attorney and an investment banker. For the past three decades, mr. Walker has been one of our nations foremost philanthropic executives. He has served as chief operating officer of harlems Largest Development corporation. Vice president of the rockefeller foundation, cofounder and chair of the u. S. Impact investing alliance, and for the past seven
Accomplishments, whoever introduces him has their work cut out for them. Born in lafayette, louisiana, Darren Walker was one of the first children in the nation to benefit from the head start program. He went on to were a scholarship at the university of texas at austin, where he would graduate with degrees in government, speech communication, and law, before pursuing a successful career as an attorney and an investment banker. For the past three decades, mr. Walker has been one of our nations foremost philanthropic executives. He has served as chief operating officer of harlems Largest Development corporation. Vice president of the rockefeller foundation, cofounder and chair of the u. S. Impact investing alliance, and for the past seven years as president of the Ford Foundation, where he overcease an endowment of 13 billion and 600 million in annual grant making. He is dedicated to tackling the most difficult issues in the world. He was among the most committed supporters of residents
And we are going to hear from all of our members who want to speak and then will be taking your questions. Our country is facing two major battles, the fight to make sure every american is protected from the virus and the fight to get the economy back on track. So Many Americans have a lot of anxiety right now and this back to work checklist is meant to provide so many who are going through i think what many are , im a business, when can i reopen . We have put together a checklist. These fights are on two different battlefields, health and economic. They must be fought simultaneously so that is why we are announcing these benchmarks to reopen the American Economy. We need a Regional Industry by industry multifaceted data driven approach. It will not be a onesizefitsall approach. Combine to be dynamic, Public Health, economic rescue, and plans for the future. All members of the caucus have worked so hard on this and i am grateful to everyone. Dealing with the coronavirus impacting our c
Coronavirus response and the latest in the investigation. Dr. Anglin has just added additional symptoms they think are related to covid19. Tell us about some of those and what do you think this expansion of the symptoms says about the virus . Guest good morning and thanks for having me on. Symptoms,s listed new initially we talked about just , cough, ander shortness of rep. We are seeing different symptoms people are having. Chills, there are rashes that are associated specifically with this. People are having diarrheal illnesses, which we may have missed if we were looking for upper respiratory symptoms. Diarrhea, nausea, vomiting. There is also new symptom, amething we call covid toes, discoloration of the toes, and sometimes the fingers. As we get more experience with this virus, we are learning more about it. Host we were talking yesterday , talkingjames hildreth about the spread of the virus. The wall street journal touches on what he had to say and their headline is all to front
The house Problem Solvers Caucus held a meeting to discuss a proposal to reopen the country after the pandemic. The briefing was held via conference. Of lifedustry by end acid approach, it will not be a one size fits all approach. For our rescuing plans future, all members of the caucus worked so hard on this, i am grateful for everything everyone did. We are all dealing with the coronavirus impacting us in different ways. In the counties that make up my district, we have had more than 1100 deaths affecting families and nursing homes. If i can speak for new jersey, all of our frontline workers and dutch have sacrificed so much. I want to thank our families and businesses for doing the same. Bounds,us knows no which is why this this last week when i accepted the appointment to the White House Task force to reopen the economy, i said i would work closely with allstate officials. I, not see i to to workwhy this back checklist was thought of. We are grateful to live where we live, in the g