Impact that its products have on smartphone addiction in children cnbcs leslie picker has more on this story for us. Leslie hey, bill, thats right, its a twist on activist investing. Jana and california state teachers retirement system, sending a letter over the weekend to apples board pushing for changes there. In the letter, they say that apples ubiquity has created unintended negative consequences for children, particularly when it comes to their physical and mental health. They want apple to form a committee to study this issue and add more restrictions for younger users. Apple already provides tools that allow parents to restrict what their kids do on their phones, but jana and calsters believe there should be more thats done there. The letter was part of the firms announcement of their own social impact fund the plan is to raise money then use their activism knowhow to target Companies Like apple they they believe could do better when it comes to social issues now, investors and
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the u. S. Economy turned in another solid month of job creation in july. Labor department numbers released today show that employers added a net of 215,000 new jobs for the month. The actual Unemployment Rate held steady at 5. 3 . A wave of Violent Attacks broke out in the capital of afghanistan today, killing scores of people. The first a massive truck bomb flattened an entire city block in kabul and left a 30 foot crater. The blast killed 15 people and wou
Major funding for the pbst major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The ford foundation. Working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff the u. S. Economy turned in another solid month of job creation in july. Labor department numbers released today show that employers added a net of 215,000 new jobs for the month. The actual Unemployment Rate held steady at 5. 3 . A wave of Violent Attacks broke out in the capital of afghanistan today, killing scores of people. The first a massive truck bomb flattened an entire city block in kabul and left a 30 foot crater. The bla
I feel like i should be selling sham wow. [laughter] jonah it is great to be here. I used to do these every summer, then i started going on three state killing sprees instead. So it was a long, generous introduction, but as those of you who have heard me speak before no, if it is not brought up, how always feel compelled to do it myself when the l. A. Times picked me up as a columnist, Barbra Streisand publicly canceled her subscription in protest. It does not get better for me then not in my line of work, soil is thought i should have retired on a high note. If i dont bring it up, who will . I have been buried working on a new book in my house sort of like a Howard Hughes with kleenex boxes. I shouldnt do a lot of dead dog jokes, some of you know i am a huge dog guy. I love my wife, i love my daughter, but it is my dogs that get me out of bed every morning. [laughter] jonah i mean that literally, not the way joe biden means figuratively. [laughter] jonah anyway, where to begin . I kno
Of this interfaith lecture series. I am especially pleased that diane winston, who holds the in media and religion at berkeleys Annenberg School is here with us. I do not know how many of you know about religion but to hold likeight chair, that is the noble prize in journalism education, so i am really glad that she is here. I will tell you more about diane in a moment, but first as i traditionally do, we will discuss the discussion. An underlying theme we have been having, the background for all of the discussions in the amphitheater, has been, how the news business, and the Civic Society can do its part. To give us the information and the values and the perspective that we need, as a Democratic Society to find our way. I was thinking of that this morning during nancy gibbss interesting conversation with david andreli. I will have a brief quiz based on this discussion. They were talking about the difficulty of having Accurate Information come across and holding its way against fake in