[applause] thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for this book talk. Brick by brick, building hope and opportunity for women survivors everywhere, by karen sherman. What a powerful title, right . Each word of the title has power within its own self, and i think that you will see that illuminated today during the conversation that karen will have with barbara. Im marjorie san, im manager director at ascend at the as spend institute and its my pleasure to step in for my boss, ann mosley, the executive director of asend and also a Vice President at the as spend institute. U fortunately she had family emergency today and is nose able to make it but she was heavily involved in the planning. It was her honor to host the book talk because she has known karen as a very close friend for many, many years and if you know ann, you know that personal and professional relationships and commitments are really important to her. So only an emergency would have kept her from open
2020 lincoln forum online. um we are ready. and so is the break with tradition ready to continue? as we as we prepare for an unusual panel. one that combines performance with discussion that will take you back to the 19th century. and then bring us back to the 21st century to assess and analyze exactly what we see and here. the topic is the woman known as the american moses. harriet tubman born into slavery and abolitionist and activist and an astonishingly brave conductor on the underground railroad. later a union nurse a union spy. a woman who survived all the way to 1913 the year of the 50th gettysburg reunion think of that. a living link to the history that she helped transform. we re going to be presenting two brilliant panelists to discuss harriet tubman. first our friend catherine clinton professor of american history at the university of texas at san antonio. she is author of the definitive life of mary lincoln. along with the book stepped orders of history. so then w
us today and we welcome all of our friends at c-span along with our audience. as we begin a session of the 2020 lincoln forum online. um we are ready. and so is the break with tradition ready to continue? as we as we prepare for an unusual panel. one that combines performance with discussion that will take you back to the 19th century. and then bring us back to the 21st century to assess and analyze exactly what we see and here. the topic is the woman known as the american moses. harriet tubman born into slavery and abolitionist and activist and an astonishingly brave conductor on the underground railroad. later a union nurse a union spy. a woman who survived all the way to 1913 the year of the 50th gettysburg reunion think of that. a living link to the history that she helped transform. we re going to be presenting two brilliant panelists to discuss harriet tubman. first our friend catherine clinton professor of american history at the university of texas at san antonio. she
The minimum wage. You have a population thats aging, a big part of the population and a lot of people who are taking care of people who are older are older themselves and financially vulnerable. Some would argue that raising the minimum wage at this point actually makes that harder because it makes it harder for people to get the care they need at a price they can afford. How does Something Like that get resolved in your opinion . We need to show that were all dependent on one another. You have people who are care givers for their parents, care givers for children, care givers for the sick and disabled. They all care about each other in a community. Its not caregiver against person being cared for. We need to figure out ways, and i think they spoke about this on on the panel earlier this morning, we talk about how we value care in our society. Somebody caring for elderly parents or working as a Home Health Aide earning Poverty Level wages, thats not good for the caregiver or the person
Not living at the mercy of tips. Ers [applause] stagease welcome to the our guests. [applause] hi everybody. We have heard from a movement leader, activists, and organizer. Before that, we heard from a senator. Those were conversations about policies. The idea is to bring it back to the ground level. Speak to some of the individual people who might be affected by some of these changes. Ho can tell us our stories what it is like to be an individual human being. A young woman living life in america today. Hopefully that will be a valuable perspective. This is a lie fed session life ed session. Kelsey come and from the leadership project in new york. We will hopefully have a bit of a conversation roundrobin style. We will start with the question of what challenges have you gone through . We will start with you, gracie. One of the biggest struggles i have had to overcome has been my financial situation with my mother. She is a single mother. My father left around 2006. It has been pretty r