Parable of american healing. Ben jealous has spent his professional life at the nexus of social change media and emerging technologies. Hes a former democratic nominee for governor of the great state of maryland, a former National President and ceo of the acp. Former executive director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association and for more than half a decade has been investing in social impact startups. While at the acp, jealous led a series of wholesale changes in how the organization used social media and related technologies to enhance its organizing. He is also a professor of practice at the university of pennsylvania. Jealous will be in conversation with april ryan. Ryan is a white house correspondent, the longest serving black female journalist where shes been covering urban issues from the white house for 26 years. She has been featured, in essence, vogue, cosmopolitan, elle magazine and other top publications. She served on the board of the prestigious White House Corres
Parable of american healing. Ben jealous has spent his professional life at the nexus of social change media and emerging technologies. Hes a former democratic nominee for governor of the great state of maryland, a former National President and ceo of the acp. Former executive director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association and for more than half a decade has been investing in social impact startups. While at the acp, jealous led a series of wholesale changes in how the organization used social media and related technologies to enhance its organizing. He is also a professor of practice at the university of pennsylvania. Jealous will be in conversation with april ryan. Ryan is a white house correspondent, the longest serving black female journalist where shes been covering urban issues from the white house for 26 years. She has been featured, in essence, vogue, cosmopolitan, elle magazine and other top publications. She served on the board of the prestigious White House Corres
Advocates and educators testifying on childcare access and affordability in the u. S. Before the Senate Health education labor and pensions committee. They discuss expanding childcare access and the impact of available childcare on the economy and training and education requirements for caregivers and educators. This is about two hours. Lets get the show in the. Road Senate Committee on House Institution and labor coming to order. And let me begin by thanking all of our panelists for being here for what will be i think a very important discussion of what tens of millions of families in this country. As the nation, we often talk about family values and how much we love our children. But unfortunately we have a funny way of showing that love. In America Today, we have the highest rates of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth. And we have if we will be discussing today, a broken its dysfunctional childcare system. It is no great secret thats the psychologists tell us tha
well, my guest is seychelles president, wavel ramkalawan. is this a story of paradise lost? president wavel ramkalawan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. well, it s a pleasure to have you in the studio. you in the seychelles are known at the un as one of the sids nations. that s the small island developing states. do you think the world listens properly to the sids? i would say no. in fact, as an african country, when the world talks about africa, they don t really pay attention to the sids. and yet, the sids of africa are the ones that are doing very well. when you look at the mo ibrahim index, for example, mauritius is first, seychelles is second, cape verde s third. so you have three sids that are doing extremely well, but the focus is on mainland africa. but isn t that, in a sense, part of the point? you are doing relatively well. i believe your per capita income is over $10,000, which in african terms is pretty remarkable, and you re very small. your population