Ask the Mayor; Health Care Status Update; ACS Tackles 'Implicit Bias'; The Notions of Belonging for Asian-Americans

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 11, 2017

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, takes calls from listeners and discusses the week in NYC.
  • As ACA enrollment season approaches, Amy Goldstein, Washington Post healthy policy reporter and author of Janesville: An American Story (Simon & Schuster, 2017), talks about how the Trump administration may hinder the process and how the marketplaces are doing since "repeal and replace" died in Congress. Plus, Jim Klein, president of the American Benefits Council, explain what changes individuals who get their health insurance through their employees can expect.
  • David Hansell, commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services, discusses the ACS's new reform-focused agenda, including training caseworkers to recognize "implicit bias," which might lead them to subconsciously treat some families differently from others. 
  • Jay Caspian Kang, writer at large for the New York Times Magazine, discusses his recent article about the death of a college freshman from hazing and how it relates to larger questions of Asian-American identity and notions of belonging. 

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