Witnessing the current resurgence of democratic socialism in the United States, as it simplified by the growing membership of democratic socialism in america and the popularity of politicians like Bernie Sanders and alexandria ocasiocortez, the explore how this energy might be channeled to achieve a future that is more democratic, egalitarian, inclusive and environmentally sustainable. In the age of trump and beyond. So let me introduce our guests tonight. Journalist kate aronoff has appeared in the guardian, the nation, and the New York Times. She is a coeditor of we own the future democratic socialism american style together with peter dreier and michael. She lives in brooklyn. Michael denzel smith is the author of the New York Times bestseller invisible man got the whole world watching. And a fellow at the nation institute. He is written for the New York Times, the atlantic, complex, the paris review, harpers, the new republic, the guardian and the root, and just been a featured com
Amass wealth and raised to help overcome those obstacles it. This is about an hour and a half law. The committee will come to order. I know its that all shall be present. Without objections the committee has authorized to declare a recess at the committee at any time without objection, they will accept the full committee on the subcommittee are authorized to participate in todays hearing. The committee is meeting today, pursuant to notice the testimony on examining the racial engender and wealth gap. I now recognize myself four minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing is rendered allround a subcommittee exists and the racial and wealth gap is real and acceptable and actually much larger than people think it could be get total access the cash retirement now or youre home and then subtracting abilities such as Credit Card Debt, student loans, mortgage to reach your net worth. But according to the United States in borough, the net worth of white households was 130,000 and 800
Are you planning to release a written report . [no response] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org. We continue our live coverage taking you to Georgetown University where congressman jamie raskin is discussing the constitution hosted by Georgetown University law center. Successive waves of political, moral and social struggle all of them interbraided that we have come much closer to attaining to lincolns ideal and came to a if you read the constitution the way that i do, the vast majority of the amendments that we have had, the 17 we have had since the original bill of rights are the 13th amendment abolishing slavery and due process, 15th amendment prohibiting race discrimination and 16th amendment establishing the power of taxation and progressive taxation and 17th amendment shifting the mode of election of u. S. Senators from the legislatures to the people. The 19th amendment doubling t
Communities hit hard by the virus as well as Health Care Facilities that are struggling to keep up with the rising number of cases. An effort to get it through quickly appeared to have hit a snag as some republican lawmakers have expressed concerns about one key part of the bill. The legislation also isnt sitting well with new York Governor Andrew Cuomo who says the amount of money his state gets from the bill is a drop in the bucket. I would really be terrible for the state of new york. The 2 trillion bill, what does it mean for new york State Government . It means 3. 8 billion. 3. 8 billion sounds like a lot of money, but were looking at a shortfall revenue shortfall of 9, 10, 15 billion. This response to this virus has probably already cost us 1 billion. Look over to the left of the screen. You see the total number of cases there. 60,846. More than 30,000, 50 of the cases have been reported in new york state. New york senator Kirsten Gillibrand says the money in this bill is essenti
Pamela Smart, her attorney and advocates hope the state Supreme Court will push the governor and Executive Council to hear out Smart’s arguments for her release from prison, but the