National Politics; Immigrants and the NYS Budget; Global Corporate Minimum Tax; Asian-American Families Share Why They're Learning Remotely

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 12, 2021

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Anu Joshi, vice president of policy at the New York Immigration Coalition, talks about the Fund for Excluded Workers and other components in the newly passed state budget that will have an impact on New York's immigrant communities.
  • Jason Johnson, MSNBC contributor, author, professor of politics and journalism at Morgan State University and host of the new Slate political podcast A Word … with Jason Johnson, talks about the latest national political news. 
  • Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has called for a global corporate minimum tax. Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and GZero Media and the author of Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism (Portfolio, 2018), talks about how that would affect the U.S. economy, and looks abroad to who it would help, and who it would hurt.
  • Asian-American families are choosing to keep their kids home from school this year at higher rates than any other group. AAPI listeners -- and Black listeners, who are also more likely to choose all remote, in our area -- call in to share why they are still staying home, even after the NYC schools gave one last chance to opt in for this year.

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

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