assuring the safety and efficacy of drugs. that's a big challenge, but n that's their primary mission in improving drugs that are available on the market.ther there are other countries also have their ownco processes, ands there is some collaboration between fda and other countries to make sure that given drugs are a global market, that the drugs are available or safe and effective but may defer across to different countries. certainly the drug prices ount reflect that the u.s. is payingl a significant amount for innovation, research, and drug development, and having choice of drugs leads to where we are,t which is our drug prices are often significantly higher two to four times or more higher than in other countries. >> the report can bebe read at gao.gov, john dicken is the public health and public markets, the public health and private markets director for the government accountability office. thanks)n>y for the update. >> thank you.f the i appreciate your interest.orga

ourni next guest of the mornings the founder and ceo of the e. organization known as girls who code. we appreciate your time this ft morning. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> for those who don't know about your organization, can yoa give an explanation? >> sure. well,th girls who code is a movement to close the gender gau in computer science and over technology. we've taught over 450,000 girls to code and reached about a hal. a billion people through our work. so we do this through offering f free virtual a coding camps ove. the summer, and girls who code clubs we have about 10,000 of them across the country. it's because we believe that y when girls learn how to code, they'll change the world.. covid, cancer, and climate. >> you've r callededo a marsha plans for moms. you wrote about it in an opinion piece in the "new york times." can you explain?

>> last year under covid, i lea started the yearfo with a newbo baby. i was going to go on maternity leave for the first time and vi9 really get to enjoy it and spend some time with my baby, and then covid-19 happened. and i found myself having to go back to work when my son was a m couple weeks old, having to homeschool my 5-year-old, and having tool save my global save nonprofit from a pandemic because we know that when crises hit, the first resources to go are the ones for girls in underserved communities. my liver failed, i got acne on s my face because i was working 16, 17 hours a day. and when i looked on my zoom screen, every mother looked exal exactly how i felt. and i think for so many of us in those early months we were just saying, you know what, when the schools open, whenwe the schoolw open, we'll be okay. we were grinning and bearing it. and then i got about two weeks' notice before my public school n

told me that schools are not opening. as legislators, mostly men, figured out the hvac equipment and figured out how to keep our teachers safe, they never at the thought about us. they never thought about when they announced this hybrid learning module that there was g going to have to be a default caretaker at home logging on t,k theirep kids all the while maintaining her full-time job. at that moment i kept saying to the lf, well, where is the plan. because the numbers had come our is wwe had lost over 2.4 million women from the workforce. like, our labor market participation is where it was in 1989. 30 years of progress gone in nine months. and so i wrote the marshall plan for moms started as an op-ed and it's built into a movement to just say we need an economic plan. we need to center mothers in the recovery. and i gave some ideas. >> you talked about direct - payment to moms.can yo can you expand on who would get

that payment, what would qualify them for that payment? >> yeah. so, every mom i talked to my ptd said i need cash. there are different reasons. tab some mothers needed cash to put food on the table.ools c some needed itlo to pay the ren. because, again, when schools closed and we didn't have a structure of care and affordable childcare, moms were forced to either go on food stamps, go on the third shift, move in with s their parents, just essentially make unconscionable choices. so they were having to ng tha supplement their paid labor for unpaid labor.. and the only thing that was going to get them out of that bc crisis was cash. and so that's what i proposed is basic income payments for mothers. that has showed up in the form of a childcare tax credit, whick now july every parent is going i to getly. $300 a month to help t make those kinds of choices fory their family. >> i was going to ask you elements of the american much i families plan is what you're also proposing. i t doinmuch intersect, and is it

enough, in your opinion? that yo >> look, i think that this president's doing an incredible job of recognizing that you hoob can't buildac america back bett unless you build motherhood back better. and in president biden's america families plan, you know, he is proposing pre-k education, paid leave, affordable childcare, extending the childcare tax credit to 2025. again, rebuilding the structure of care. part of what we're trying to dol with the marshall plan for momsh is say, beyond legislation, we need a national reckoning on alr motherhood. culture. changege we have to change our social fi norms. engaging the state, you know, and makinglithe fi surers that e care of our families is the first step. >> our guest is with us till 9:30. 202-748-8000 for democrats.(202 202-748-8001 for republicans. f and independents 202-748-8002. you can text us also at t you

202-748-8003. samantha edisonpropos and amy n talked about the marshall plan s for moms that you propose. and they write, in part, this. the marshall plan for moms incentivizes families to make rt the choice ofhe having a mom st home. when a mom wants to go back to the workforce after time off, there's a 38% chance she will n ever get the full-time position ever again for the rest of theih life. when womenges moms lose controlr finances theydelines, lose cont their lives. -- disempowers them. how do you respond to that? guest: i disagree. i think the problem how do you respond to that? >> yeah. i disagree. i think the problem is that we assume that if we give mothers support, that they'll choose to stay home. i think if you look at what's happening across other nations, you'll see that that's simply not true. the reason why mothers' income

goes down if she takes a year off of work, almost as high as 40% is because we don't have enough off and on ramps. the private sector is broken. and we're going to see this happen this year when so many moms had to make the choice between childcare and their job. the reality is, is that this year we had half a million less -- in this country. people don't want to have kids because they can't afford to have kids. we don't have a society here in america that respects motherhood because we don't offer enough support. i was the daughter of refugees, and my parents came to this country with nothing. and when my parents couldn't afford the $50 of childcare, i was a latch key kid. we make people every day make unconscionable choices between having a child and work. we have to make it possible to help support mothers, support parents, you know, really start to compensate unpaid labor, and

recognize the cost of care. 86% of people who are doing the housework at home are moms. and the reason why we're not able to get that promotion or get that nursing degree or have to put our kids in nighttime daycare is because there's not enough support in this country. and it's the only country where that's the case. >> direct payments being one of the aspects of the plan. you heard her talk about the elements of paid family leave and affordable childcare and paid equity measures, workforce re-training programs and developing plans to safely reopen schools five days a week. this plan got a full-page spread in the "new york times" recently, and also a lot of support. are you getting support from capitol hill on this? >> yeah. we have two bills introduced in congress. the marshall plan for moms. the first one introduced by congresswoman grace mang. and a bill introduced by senator klobuchar and senator duckworth. we've had a couple bills introduced in municipalities, l.a. city council president has

introduced a bill just this week cory johnson introduced a bill in the new york city council. so people recognize, here's the like. we can't shorten the economic recovery for women unless we have a plan. the jobs report just came out, and the reason why we haven't seen this expansive growth, one of the reasons why we haven't seen this expansive growth is because schools are still not open full-time and daycares are not open. people don't have a plan on how they're going to actually pay for childcare. so, until that -- >> we take you live now to the white house, covid-19 task force briefing for an update. >> i want to talk about how we got to today. the reason we are winning the war against covid-19 is because scientists over the years have found a solution to beat this virus. very safe and effective vaccines. and because americans have chosen to get vaccinated, overall, we've administered 250 million shots since president biden took office. and we're approaching