Mark-Viverito's Final Days Marked By Flurry Of Voting; How We Are Raising Our Kids in an Era of Anger; Why Presidents Keep Losing Wars
Coming up on today's show:
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In the speakers final days, the City Council is voting on 38 pieces of legislation--on everything from The Right to Know Act to a requirement that some city forms include an option to indicate a gender-neutral pronoun. Brigid Bergin, the City Hall and politics reporter for WNYC, talks about what's passing and Mark-Viverito’s legislative legacy.
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Just at holiday tipping time, New York State is considering eliminating the lower minimum wage for tipped workers. Erik Engquist, assistant managing editor for Crain's New York Business, explains how the minimum wage tip credit should work, and why labor advocates want it to go.
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Faith Salie, contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning, panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!, host of the PBS show, “Science Goes To The Movies”, and the author of Approval Junkie: Adventures in Caring Too Much (Crown Archetype, 2016), talks about raising her young son to be empathetic and unafraid to access his emotions, or as she puts it, "sweet," as well as how gendered messaging affects kids.
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Harlan Ullman, principal author of "shock and awe," former senior adviser to Supreme Allied Commander Europe, senior advisor to The Atlantic Council and The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the author of Anatomy of Failure: Why America Loses Every War It Starts (Naval Institute Press, 2017), argues that presidential shortcomings as military leaders and strategists have resulted in one failure after another in the decades after World War II.
