Not immune. This is about two hours. People come to order. Without objection, with recent subcommittee it is time. I recognize myself for an opening statement. On july 11, President Trump tweeted it would be bad for him politically if schools opened before the november election. The threat that he would cut off funding if not reopened. Yesterday he said, and i quote, my view is schools should open. It will go away like things go away and schools should be open. The president position of how to reopen schools to paraphrase the press secretary, for science to stand in the way. I fundamentally disagree. Schools must reopen based on science and safety, not politics and wishful thinking. To agree, though schools are critically important for the children and our families. My first job after i graduated college was as a High School History teacher. My wife was a skilled librarian. I remember the anticipation at the start of school. Two of my grandchildren school age and i know they are feelin
American Psychological Association ceo arthur evans joins us to discuss stress in america report and how covid19 is affecting Mental Health field Mental Health. Host as Congress Tries to hammer out the covid relief package, Small Businesses are in trouble. Business health and cashel have stalled. Yelp says 2800 businesses in new york city alone have closed. The Small Business administration has given out more money in the past few months than its entire history. It is tuesday, august 4, 2020. We welcome you to washington journal. We will spend this first hour asking you about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Small Business. If you are a Small Business owner, call 202 7488000. Or former an employee Small Business employee, 202 7488001. For all others, 202 7488002. Texts, 202 ur 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are from. On twitter, cspanwj. Facebook. Com cspan. Negotiators on capitol hill continue with the pandemic relief package. We will hear more about that later. Her
Congressman John Robert Lewis at the age of 80. He passed from pancreatic cancer. Long receipt man lewis helped organize the 1963 march on washington and the 1965 Voting Rights match in selma, alabama. He was six main organizers including Martin Luther king junior of the washington march where he gave a speech at the lincoln memorial. Congressman louis often spoke of the importance of getting into good trouble. He represented georgia in the house of representatives from 1987 until his passing. Johnathan capeheart asked representative lewis what he would say to people who feel as though they have already been giving it their all but nothing changes. Lewis answered, you must be able and prepared to give until you cannot give anymore. We must use our time and space on this planet we call earth, to leave it better than we found it and now that need is greater than ever before. He will truly be missed. The San Francisco Unified School District is offering support to teach students from dist
American psychological association. Joining us to talk about that associations latest survey, on stress in the time of covid19. Dr. Evans, welcome to the program. Guest thank you, led to be here. Host this is glad to be here. Host tell us why you did this survey initially, and what you found different this time around. Guest we have done the stress 2017. Rica survey since we know that stress is related to a lot of our physical outcomes as well as Mental Health outcomes. We have been tracking on that, and since the pandemic, we have how doing surveys to see our stress levels are being affected by this pandemic. Host the survey is available at apa. Org. Into a numberlves of very current issues, including the aftermath of the killing of george floyd on may 12, the protests and the disturbances and unrest in cities across the country. Tell us about that. Guest we did ask about that, and what we found is that about 60 of americans are concerned about racial discrimination, and have concerns
Culture and competent care, multilingual contact tracing. Thank you for bringing that up. Supervisor yee thank you. This is everybodys responsibility. I dont see anybody taking responsibility right now. One last thing, in terms of resource distribution in districts, supervisor brought up this issue. My argument sometimes its counterintuitive. If you look at my district, theres really no nonprofit. Nobody wants to come out there to help 100 rvs parked out there. I think its too easy just to say one district has more need and that were not getting the resources. As you know, most of the nonprofits are in those areas, in those districts where the needs are the greatest. You cant ignore all those resources that are serving that community doesnt exist. It wont matter this year. In the future, i want to say that because its not fair to just say, little piece of pie, we should get more of it, because not taking into consideration that in hat bigger budget, 99. 9 , if you look at whats allocat