Monday Morning Politics; Commercial Tenant Relief; How Canada Does the Carbon Tax; Trump Administration's Refugee Admissions Plummet; Helium Shortage
The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 30, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Elaina Plott, White House correspondent for The Atlantic, discusses the latest political headlines.
- Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist reporter, talks about what actions the City Council is taking to address a new report that shows retail vacancies to have risen dramatically over the last 10 years.
- Kathryn Harrison, professor of political science at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, explains Canada's carbon tax and how it differs from other countries’ carbon taxes.
- Nicole Narea, immigration reporter at Vox, and Barbara Strack, former chief of Refugee Affairs Division at US Citizenship and Immigration Service at the Department of Homeland Security, discuss the latest news that the United States is slated to accept 18,000 refugees next year, the lowest number in the history of the refugee resettlement program.
- Claire Maldarelli, associate editor at Popular Science magazine, talks about the shortage of helium that's made lighter-than-air balloons hard to come by, but also has implications for healthcare and space exploration.
