
Monday Morning Politics; the City's Property Taxes; Polling and the President; An MTA Solution from the Unions
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 24, 2017
Coming up on today's show:
- Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg White House reporter, rounds up the weekend's news and discusses the latest from the unfolding Trump-Russia storyline.
- Judge Jonathan Lippman, former chief judge of New York and counsel to Tax Equity Now NY, and Martha Stark, former lecturer at Baruch College Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, former (Bloomberg era) commissioner of the New York City Department of Finance, and policy director at Tax Equity Now NY, talk about the class-action lawsuit filed by Tax Equity Now NY. The suit claims that the city's property tax system discriminates against homeowners in predominantly minority neighborhoods by over-assessing properties and charging higher tax rates than homeowners in white neighborhoods pay.
- Andrew Gelman, professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University, contributor to Washington Post's Monkey Cage and the author of Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks, offers statistical analysis of recent polls of President Trump's approval ratings.
- John Samuelsen, president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, discusses a 10 point plan created by the men and women who work the system to address the subway delays and breakdown.


