Debt Limit, Biden's Agenda and More; Vaccine Mandate: Home & Away; Taxi Drivers' Protest Over Medallion Debt Relief; Evolution in Language
The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 12, 2021
Coming up on today’s show:
- Amanda Terkel, HuffPost Washington bureau chief, talks about the latest national political news including continuing negotiations in congress over the debt limit and crucial legislation related to physical and social infrastructure.
- Christine Chung, The City Queens reporter, talks about NYC's vaccine mandate for performance and sports venues that exempts visiting teams and performers.
- Earlier this year, New York City announced a $65 million taxi relief fund, but medallion owners say the package doesn't go far enough. Bhairavi Desai, president and founding member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a union representing taxi drivers in New York City, joins to discuss why more aid money might be necessary to help indebted drivers.
- John McWhorter, Columbia University linguistics professor, host of the Lexicon Valley podcast and contributing editor at The Atlantic, talks about how words evolve as listeners share words and phrases they now embrace or avoid as their meaning has shifted.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
