News From the Border; Informal, Unofficial, Thoroughly Unscientific Exit Poll: New York; Parkland Parents PAC; The High Cost of Raising Kids
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 26, 2018
- Jacob Soboroff, MSNBC correspondent, talks about his reporting from the border and the latest on the Trump administration's policies on immigration. Then, Masha Gessen discusses why Democrats should support open borders.
- John O'Connor, WNYC Washington correspondent, offers New York Federal Primary Election Day analysis of people and issues on the ballot in New York, then voters call in to share their choices.
- Jeff Kasky, president of Families vs. Assault Rifles PAC and the father of Cameron Kasky, one of the Parkland school shooting survivors, talks about the political action committee he and some of the other parents in Parkland, FL formed to support candidates in favor of an assault weapons ban.
- Alissa Quart, executive editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America (Ecco, 2018), argues American policies make raising families unaffordable for all but the wealthy and offers policy-based and DIY solutions.
