Rep. Hakeem Jeffries; Biden and Sanders Debate; Hospitals In Need; Working from Home

4 segments
A pedestrian walks along an empty Pier 2 in Brooklyn Bridge Park against the downtown Manhattan skyline, Monday, March 16, 2020.

 

One today's show:

  • U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn and Queens), talks about the federal response to COVID-19 and the situation in his district;
  • Sunday’s Democratic debate may have been the smallest yet, but with the nation facing a pandemic, the issues were bigger than ever. Joan WalshThe Nation's national affairs correspondent and a CNN political contributor, breaks it down;
  • Dr. Irwin Redlener, president emeritus and co-founder of the Children's Health Fund, professor of pediatrics and director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University and the author of The Future of Us: What the Dreams of Children Mean for Twenty-First-Century America (Columbia University Press, 2017) talks about how prepared we are to handle the COVID-19 pandemic;
  • For everyone just starting to work from home, what hacks have you found that make it productive.  New-to-it or long-timer, what’s better?  What challenges do you need advice for?