Rep. Tom Suozzi; New York's COVID Stats; Prison Business; Black History

On today's show:

• U.S. Representative Tom Suozzi (D NY3, parts of Long Island and Queens) talks about Congress and the Biden agenda and the role of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus.
• Jake Dobkin, co-founder of Gothamist, where he's been the de facto numbers-cruncher in chief for all things COVID-19, and Nsikan Akpan, WNYC's health and science editor, talk about the latest COVID-19 news, including how New York's positivity rates compare to elsewhere in the country and globally.
• The Brian Lehrer Show and The Greene Space have launched a new series about the business side of the prison industry. Each week we examine one aspect of the $80 billion dollar prison industrial complex, and ask: who profits when people get put away? This week we talk about personnel and companies that contract with prisons to provide training for correctional staff with Bianca Tylek, Worth Rises’s executive director, and Insha Rahman, vice president of Advocacy and Partnerships at the Vera Institute of Justice, one of the largest justice reform organizations in the country.
• Jonathan Scott Holloway, president of Rutgers University and the author of The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans(Oxford University Press, 2021), talks about African American history in the context of today's realities.

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.