Sen. Gillibrand: The Next Relief Package; What Does the Census Do?; A Doctor's Story; How COVID and Race are Different in France
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 8, 2020
Coming up on today's show:
- U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D NY) talks about the Senate's response to the public health and economic crisis.
- Julie Menin, director of NYC Census 2020 and executive assistant corporation counsel for NYC law department, and Lurie Daniel Favors, interim executive director of the Center for Law and Social Justice at CUNY’s Medgar Evers College, explain how the 2020 Census will impact schools, hospitals and policing for the next decade to come.
- Michele Harper, emergency room physician and the author The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir (Riverhead Books, 2020), talks about her journey to becoming chief resident at Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx as a Black woman and reflects on that work in the current time.
- Thomas Chatterton Williams, contributing writer at The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine and author of Losing my Cool and Self-Portrait in Black and White, talks about how France tamed the new coronavirus and the differences between France and the U.S. on COVID-19 and race.
