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special edition of politicsnation. i m in new york, we will have the reverend al sharpton joining us momentarily from selma, alabama. you are looking at now live at the bridge. we are taking in this feed, straight msnbc at rockefeller center. in a moment, president, biden is you see there, we ll march alongside dignitaries. including reverend al sharpton, who is not too far away from this picture you see here. they will be marking the 58th anniversary of bloody sunday. moments ago, the president laying out the threats as he sees them, threatening a voting rights. it looks like they are just beginning their walk. this fundamental right remains under assault, conservative supreme court has gutted the voting rights act over the years. since the 2020 election, a wave of states and dozens of anti voting laws fueled by the big lie, and the election deniers, now elected to office. and that annual walk, as you see on the left-hand side of the screen, just beginning. it s ab ....
was so desperately needed, urgently needed. this plan is going to make it possible to cut child poverty in half. i m going to succeed. we re going to succeed moving forward. look, the american people strongly support this. that s the key here. as someone who spent the entire primary campaign criticizing joe biden, this weekend, the president did what i thought he couldn t, or just wouldn t, by getting results on what undeniably is the most pro-worker, anti-poverty accomplishment by an american president since lyndon johnson. don t take my word for it. listen to the senate budget committee chair, a certain bernie sanders, who called it, quote, the most significant piece of legislation to benefit working families in the modern history of this country. and he s right. i mean, how else to describe a bill that halves child poverty. halves it, thanks to $1400 direct payments, survival checks, a typical family of four gets $5600 in new payments or $7600 in new payments if ....
also this weekend on booktv on our after words program, author sebastian mall by talks about his new biography on former federal reserve chairman alan greenspan. you ll see the 2016 national book awards, and we visit pittsburgh to tour thatty s literary sites that city s literary sites. for a complete schedule, go to booktv.org. booktv on c-span2, it s 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. and now we ll kick off this weekend with a ram from 2009 with a program from 2009. this is the late gwen ifill who taped an after words program with us in 2009. she died at the age of 61 from cancer this week. she was a journalist, of course, and author with more than 30 years of experience covering washington and the white house. host: hello. welcome to after words, my name s david brooks, i m a columnist from the new york times, and i m joined today by an author, gwen ifill, and we are not only going to talk about er book [laught ....
welcome to montgomery, alabama, on american history tv. it is considered one of america s most historic cities for its role on the civil war and civil rights movement. today, it has a population of 205000 and is alabama s second-largest city. with the help of our cable partners, over the next 90 thetes, hear the story of montgomery bus boycott and its impact on the city. each day that the buses ran empty, the bus company lost about $3000 per day. about 1955.ng three thousand dollars was the average yearly salary of most people in the area. it speaks to the amount of of the busestate because remember the bus fare was only $.10. quite later, we will learn about an alabama governor who made a bid for the presidency. when people ask him what the takeaway from the 1958 campaign is, he says, i try to talk about progressive improvement and good and goodgood roads schools, known would listen. when i started to talk about segregation, everyone started to listen to me. bu ....
potential gdp is a concept to get your arms around because we don t know what the productivity growth is going to do in the future and not so much of the gdp growth but where can you push the unemployment rate safely. what kind of policy rules to use referring to this some put more weight on the output gap and others last. one of the reason is we get this uncertainty problems or to put you in the direction in that respect. [inaudible] we would have called for the funds. which other as far as prescription what you proposed as far as the prescription which the fed proposed into the communication [inaudible] september 17 the committee released a statement today i suppose the question is what has changed between the end of august and the 24th of september in so far as this stuff is concerned? thank you. a rule that i proposed ages ago i still like and it s one thing to think about. it s held up over time. it s worse in different countries. the attempts to modify it are gr ....