Rep. Ritchie Torres; New Jersey Governor's Race; Home Health Care Funding; Your 'Hispanic' Heritage

 In this June 14, 2021, file photo the U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington as the House and Senate return to work.

Coming up on today's show:

  • Ritchie Torres, U.S. Representative (D-NY15), talks about all the big things happening in Congress this week, including infrastructure, the debt ceiling, plus gives his view on what needs to happen on Rikers Island. 
  • Nancy Solomon, reporter and editor in WNYC newsroom, recaps Tuesday's debate between incumbent Gov. Phil Murphy and his GOP challenger Jack Ciattarelli.
  • In his infrastructure plan introduced this year, President Biden proposed $400 billion in funding for home health care services, but so far in negotiations Democrats have agreed to less than half of that number. Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Worker Alliance's executive director, talks about what substantially more funding could mean for both home health care workers and the people who rely on their services.
  • According to the 2020 Census, the Hispanic or Latino population grew to 62.1 million in the United States. For Hispanic Heritage Month, listeners share what each of those terms means to them and how they choose to identify themselves, whether "Hispanic," "Latino," "Brown," "Latin American," or "Latinx."

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.