Flint baking headlines because of the water problems. It is a crisis on top of a crisis. Just like the flint water crisis, this pandemic has both a health and Economic Impact. Ofthe case of my hometown flint, dealing with the water issues and health issues, impacting children, but also the Economic Impact of that, layered on top is the coronavirus issue. As you know, i am sure, coronavirus seems to have disproportionate impact on communities of color, a majority minority community. In michigan, 14 of the population is africanamerican. 32 of coronavirus cases are. 41 percent of deaths are occurring in the africanamerican community. It is a crisis on top of a crisis. That is why so much of the intervention we have been focusing on in washington and at our state level is really important for a place like flint, saginaw, to move forward. Host lets focus for a moment on the water situation. What is the status of that today . Guest the Water Quality is improving for sure. The lead service li
This webinar will have a straightforward format after my introduction he will offer 10 minutes or so of remarks, then i will have questions for the senator and we will have a discussion about the economic challenges facing our nation and what congress should do to address them. We will take a couple of questions at the end. Thank you for joining us. If you have a question for senator rubio, submit it by email. Econtalk on aei twitter. Those are listed on the events web page. I am honored to be joined by senator rubio, thank you for being here. Senator marco rubio is the senator from florida, served in local state government, including as speaker of the Florida House before being elected to the senate in 2010 and reelected in 2016. He serves on the Senate Committee of appropriations, the Foreign Relations committee, the special committee on aging as acting chair of the select committee on intelligence, and most important to our discussion is chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Bus
This morning based on nine separate institutions indicating that we could potentially see another 22 thousand deaths here in the United States by mid june 22 thousand deaths here in the United States by mid june. A reminder that the house is in recess this week. The senate is in session. 2. Ve coverage on cspan as we approach memorial day weekend, we want to hear from you, your top concern as your state begins to reopen. All 50 states reopening this week. If you recently returned to work, here is the number. Anyou are a Business Owner, essential worker, here is the number. , here is thes number. If it seems a little bit different today, we are coming to you from my home and also a satellite location where this program is being directed. We will get your phone calls in just a moment. I reminder that the Senate Government Homeland Affairs committee will be holding a hearing this morning looking into a couple of things, including joe biden and his son hunter and his connection to the Ukra
The flatwater crisis, this pandemic, has both a health and Economic Impact. In the case of flint, dealing with the water crisis issues and the associated health issues,ut the Economic Impact layered on top of that is this coronavirus issue. As you know, i am sure because there has been a lot of reporting on this, coronavirus seems to have a disproportionate impact on communities of color. Flint is a majority minority community. , in michigan, 14 of the population is africanamerican. 41 of the deaths are occurring in the African American community. It is a crisis on top of a crisis. That is why so much of the intervention we have been focusing on in washington and in our state is important for places like flint, saginaw, to have a path forward. Host lets focus for a moment on the water situation. What is the status of that today . Rep. Kildee the Water Quality is improving for sure. The lead service lines. The federal government stepped in and provided significant money to replace the l
We just have taken whatever fever dream of a Technology People had in the 1960s and said right, were going to take that in our current pocket. Its never how technological change works. Very often its how we think about it. As we see our lives the way we behave, the way we interact with people at political institutions,our organizations , the office, we see that and we imagine what technology does is it just drops in and it replaces one little bit of what we do and nothing else changes. This is similar to theblade runner problem we have. You have artificial humans and yet people are still making calls from payphones. So we always or almost always adapt to take advantage of the new technology and the adaptation process is not always pleasant but it always happens. Its usually necessary and we prove to be very adaptable and contorting ourselves to make the Technology Work for us or being contorted because you work for an organization, you have to do what the boss of the Organization Says