finances. so plenty to get to. we begin with explosive remarks today during a heated hearing on anti-asian hate crimes, two days after that deadly shooting in atlanta amidst a rising wave of anti-asian attacks that have been documented. it was the first hearing in roughly 30 years. that s the context for the republican s remarks. he said he wants justice for the victims in atlanta. he worries about policing free speech and invoked lynching, which broke a fiery rebuke from the democrat testifying. i think there is old sayings in texas about find the rope in texas and get a taller tree. my concern about this hearing is it seems to want to venture into the policing of rhetoric. your president and your party and your colleagues can talk about issues with any other country that you want. but you don t have to do it by putting a bulls eye on the back of asian-americans across the country, on our grandparents, on our kids. this hearing was to address the hurt and pain of our com
type challenge, but also, it turns out, after larger systemic problems that were already hitting young people in america more than past generations. 95% of baby boomers did better than their parents. it s now just a coin to say for millenials. we have a real crisis in our country. a ticking time bomb for our economy. by the time when the middle class is disappearing. 33%, one in three, 25 to 29-year-olds live with their parents or grandparents. fewer millenials are entering the middle class than previous generations. this is not about whether these younger people work hard. this is about what work is available. so generation pandemic already had this uphill battle before the pandemic, which also hit these young people harder. younger people are more likely to work at in-person jobs, which of course have been hit. at one point up to a quarter of them were unemployed. that is a rate of job loss that
lingering for several days, possibly into early next week and we know that the president in the words of one official wants to get to texas asap, but doesn t want to in anyway get in the way of any recovery efforts, have any resources diverted to his visit that could otherwise be going to recovery and response efforts. all right. athena jones, thank you. an analyst wrote an op-ed saying that this natural disaster will be a critical test for the administration, saying that this administration is about to face a challenge from without, an act of god type challenge, and it will be judged on wl it has sufficiently nurtured and emhe powered the bureaucracy to support local and state planning to prepare for the storm and respond once it hits. and she s joining us now. you are the former assistant secretary to the department of homeland security. has this administration passed