Thank you all for taking the time to tune in with us tonight. Id also like to thank a few people that have made this Virtual Events possible. Central to all of the workers and First Responders across the globe tonight we celebrate this is all ive got which immerses the readers and the life of a young single homeless mother amidst her request to find stability and shelter right here in new york city. An awardwinning journalist, essayist and author this is her third book and shes written about inequality and its many forms from publication including the New York Times, new york, the new republic, the nation, slate and salon and has worked as a producer at npr. Tonight warren will be in conversation with New York Times nonfiction critic previously an editor at the book review and a Senior Editor at harpers magazine. Our events tonight will run for about one hour beginning with a conversation between jan and lauren followed by qanda from all of the viewers. Please remember to post your que
Globe. Tonight we celebrate this is all i got, which immerses its readers in the life of a young homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter right here in new york city. Laurent is an awardwinning journalist, essayist and author. This is her third book and she has written about inequality and its many forms from publication including the New York Times, new york, the new republic, the nation, and salons. And has worked as a producer at npr. Tonight lord will be in conversation with New York Times non fiction critic the Senior Editor at harpers magazine. Our event tonight will run for about one hour, beginning with the conversation between jen and lauren alibi q a for all of our viewers. Please never to post your questions on ip k twitter feed. With no further do i passed the mic to jen to get us started. Thank you again and enjoy. Thanks much jessica. Hi lauren, congratulations on your book i was wondering if maybe to start off you could give us a few sentences
Pamela edwardss, anchor of 6 abc action news morning edition. The screen is yours. Thats wonderful. Andy, in this new age of social distancing its great we can get it done and judy an honor to read your back. A running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea. And im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give people a little bit of a perspective. I wanted you to do a compare and contrast what it was like when you were a young person. You opened the back talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What isth it wag like to be a person come thing into world with a disability and what its like now, the differences you see. Guest well, on the one hadnt the differences are very, very significant because when i had polio in 1949 in brooklyn, there was just the beginning o
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And the lack of Affordable Housing for a living minimum wage gave many people new choice. Thats been a problem with the city knows turn limits on and told me stay away oh miss. The food if there is no answer because you have the required resource the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible cops. Greetings and salutations here in the United States as we get deeper and deeper into the fight against the cold with 19 we are seeing more and more news stories and expertly crafted publicity campaigns calling attention to the hundreds of thousands of doctors nurses and other medical workers and support staff who are quite literally on the front lines fighting to treat and save the lives of the more than 800000 u. S. Citizens or infected by this virus. They deserve our thanks our praise and our support new York Governor Andrew Cuomo aptly referred to these workers as quote the troops fighting this battle for us. But while the praise and heartfelt thanks are unquesti