NYC Bike Safety; Washington's Disorder Affects New York; Bipartisan Health Care; The Underpaid State of Women; Texas Tells
The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 1, 2017
Coming up on today's show:
- Polly Trottenberg, Commissioner of the New York Department of Transportation, discusses bike safety as the number of bikes on the streets have increased dramatically in the past couple of years.
- Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of health initiatives as Community Service Society, co-founder of Healthcare for All New York, talks about the effect Washington's disorder is having on New York's Obamacare exchanges.
- U.S. Representative (D NY-3) Thomas Suozzi, unpacks a bipartisan proposal to stabilize the individual health insurance markets from The Problem Solvers Caucus, which is a coalition of 43 House Democrats and Republicans.
- Cindi Leive, Glamour Editor-in-Chief, and John Gerzema, CEO of Harris Poll, social strategist, and author of The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future (Jossey-Bass, 2013), discuss the results of a Harris Poll that found that 70% of women say that their top priority in life is to become financially secure, but 56% believe they are underpaid.
- Lawrence Wright, New Yorker staff writer and author of The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State (Knopf, 2016), talks about ISIS and about his new feature in the New Yorker about what Texas politics can teach us about the rest of the country.
