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out with a plan for a partial overhaul of the nation's immigration systal. hed today for admitting rire highly-skilled workers-- and giving them pry over those with family already inside the u.s. the president spoke from the white house rose garden, and said his plan is pro-worker and differs from current law. >> we discriminate against genius. we discriminate against brilliance. we won't anymore once we get this passed. we cherish the open door that we want to create for our country. but a big proportion of those immigrants must come in through merit and skill. >> woodruff: the plan does not address the millions of people already living in the country illegally, and it faces dubious prospects in congress. u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi called mr. trump's approach "condescending." >> are they saying most of the

people that have ever come here to the united states in the history of our country are without merit becaus don't have an engineering degree? certainly we want to attract the best in our country, to our country, and that includ many people from many parts of drciety. >> wf: some republicans also voiced skepticism, arguing thplan doesn't do enough t reduce overall immigration. tthere's word that presid teump is pushing diplomacy with iran, amid risinions. the newshour has learned that he told acting defense secretary patrick shanahan that he does not want a war. another sign cday as he welcomed the president of ry that acts a cou as a go-between for the u.s. and iran. when a reporter asked if war is coming, mr. trump answered, "hope not." it was also reported that he's resisting national security adviser john bolton, and secretary of state mikpompeo, who favor a more hawkish approach. the persian gulf tensions are

spilling into yemen-- with new air strikes. a saudi arabian coalitionin renewed botoday in yemen's capital city, sanaa. local officials said the strikes killed at least six people and wounded 40. sanaa is held by rebels aligned with iran. they staged drone attacks inside saudi arabia this week. ina has denounced a u.s. move to block chinese telecom giant huawei from nearly all transactions with american firms. president trumed the order yesterday. his administration accuses huawei of helping the chinese government spy. in beijing today, a foreign ministry spokesman criticized the move, and called it abusive. >> ( translated ): china resolutely opposes any countr imposing unilateral sanctions. we urge the united states to stop the wrong aions, create conditions for normal business and cooperation ag avoid worsene trade tensions.

china will take further necessary measures to protect our legitimate rights. >> woodruf huawei said today that it will challenge the blacklisting decision. it also warned the u.s. move will backfire, and hurt its ameran suppliers and workers back in this country: new york city's mayor bill de blasio announced that he is running for the democratic presidential nomination. p joins 22 others in the field, angling to take sident trump. he said today he wants to let working peirst, and he called mr. trump a "con artist". de blasio is serving his second term as mayor and can't serve another. two more states are nearing strict curbs on abortions-- in a republican drive to send the sue back to the u.s. supreme court. missouri state senate voted wednesday to ban abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy. the state house is expto do likewise. and, louisiana lawmakers are advancing a bill to stop abortions after six weeks of

pregnancy. just yesterday, alabama's republican governor signed a near-total ban on abortions. democrats in the u.s. house of representatives began a marathon reading today of the redacted "mueller report"-- nearly 448 pages of it. they estimate it could last into the wee hours of tomorrow morning. house judiciary chr jerry nadler read a section on how the russian company i.r.a. tried to influence the 2016 u.s. campaign. >> the.r.a. conducted social media operations targeted at large u.s. audiences with the goal of sowing discord in the u.s. political system. using fictitious u.s. personas i.r.a. eloyees operated social media accounts and group pages designed to attract u.s. audiences. >> woodruff: democrats hope the marathon reading can keep attention on the report, as the rawhite house balks at coong

with congressional investigations. president trump issued two new pardons overnight. one went to conrad black, who wrote a flattering biography of trmrp. he spent more than three years in prison, for a fraud nviction. patrick nolan was also pardoned. he's a former republican leadere ofalifornia state assembly, who served prison time over illegal campaign contributions. he now advocates for criminal justice reform. new financial dis losure documeow revenues at the president's major properties held mostly steady lae year. they rightly at his washington d.c. hotel, but fell slightly at mar-a-lago in florida. the filing follows reports of falling profits at the president's doral rinesor florida. today's report does not address raofits, only revenues. the trump adminion today killed a grant of $930 billion for california's high-speed project. federal officials said the state

has failed to make reasonable progress and has changed the original plan. governor gavin newsom called the actionillegal" and said the state will fight in court to keep the money. on wall street: stocks rallied again, as jitters about the trade standoff with china, eased. the dow jones industrial averagd ga14 points to close at 25,682. the nasdaq rose nearly 76 points, and the s&p 500 added 25. former president jimmy carter eorgbeen released from a g hospital, after getting a hip replacement. e e 94-year-old fell at h monday, and had surgery.sp eswoman says he still plans to teach sunday school this weekend. former first lady rosalynn inrter also went home after feeling faint and hospitalized overnight. she is 91.

and word came late today that iconic architect i.p. pei has die bd. he wn in china and proved to the u.s. in 1935. his legacy includes the louvre pyramid in paris an roll hall of fame in cleveland arys the john f. kennedy libr in boston among many other landmarks. he also won the pritzker prize, the nobel of architecture, and many other awards. i.m. pei was 102 years old. still to come on the newshour, one on one with senator elizabeth warren about her campaign for pdisident, we uss the congressional stalemate over disaster aid with florida senator rick scott, how south africa's structural inequality exacerbates its struggle to cope with prolonged drought, and much more. >> woodruff: with mayor de

blasio's entrance today, there are now 23 democrats vying for their party's presidential onmination. the first to jump in was massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, whose campaign sce has put a heavy emphasis on plans and proposals, in plenty.f policy are senator warren joins us now. welcome back to the news hour. >> thank you. it'sood to be here. woodruff: so, senator, you have called yourself a capitalist to the bone. >> uh-huh. >> woodruff: and yet i think you and senator bernie sanders ha been seen by many as the two most left-leaning cands idas in tce. he, on the one hand, says he's very proud to be a demoatic socialist. eo help people watching understand what ifference is between the two of you. how do they tell you apart? why should they vote for you over him? >> i can't speak for bernie. bernie will speak for himself. all i can do is tellow i see it. how i see it is markets can produce enormous value if they have rules.

markets, if they're properly functioning, if they're transparent, if they're level that's an opportunity for iotrepreneurs to get started, for competto flourish, for there to be innovation to drive prices down. that's how it works. now, there are some areas where markets don't work at all, what public education is about, make an investment, much of healtare is about tha. but there are many areas where what we want see is markets that work better, markets that have curb, that have rules, that create a lplaying field so that everybody has a chance to build some veue and s security going forward. >> woodruff: so when you hear folks in the bids community say, and we do hear this from time to time, sayi, ll, i think elizabeth warren, based on the thct that she went after the banks aftebig financial collapse a decade ago, i think she's anti-business. what do you say? >> boy, they just have it backward. you know, i think it is pro

business to say everybody has to follow the se set o rules and that the giants don't get to come inhe andat everyone else, because when they can do that, they not only stamp out their competition. they stamp out the people who follow therules. they also manage to crush their ers.custom and the consequence of that, we saw in 2008. yeah, they amassed a lot of pealth, and then they blew the economy for everyone. that's why it is that we need consistent rules and we need those rules consistently enforced. and that's the diff need in our economy now, not an economy that just works for theh rich anpowerful, an economy that works for everyone. ho woodruff: well, let's talk about one of ways that you've suggested government can get involved. >> sure. >> woodr college.g for >> yes. >> woodruff: you have promised free public college, helping most student de holders eliminate the debt. now, we have looked at what some

analysts are sing about this. they say, number one, it is giving bigger benefits ghto -income families than families at the lower end of the spectrum, the families who need it the most, which they say raises questions about fairness and about whether it's wasting government money. >> right now we have an economy in the 21st century that basically says you're going to need some post-gh school training, whether it's technical school, two-year college, or four-year college, to get a chance to make it i middle class, to build some economic security. that's what you're going to need. now, remind yourself, a century ago when that wa true aboe high school, made high school free for everybody, because we said it's an inmevestmentca makes in our young people, and it's an investment in our future. so my plan here is to say, look, on the greaestest fortn this country, those above $50 million, on the $50 millionth and 1st dollar, pitch ino cents, and if they would pitch

in two cents, it would pro rduce enouenue to provide universal childcare, universal pre-k, raise the wages of all of our childcare and pre-k wokers and technical two-year college and four-yearqj=11 our kids at public institutions and cancel student loan debt for about 95% of the kids who have got it. >> woodruff: but what aboutha the argumentit's helping the families who need it the least. >> new york but it's not. the familieiwho neet the least are the one-tenth of 1% wh have the biggest fortunes in perica. if they woul just two cents, we could make this investment not in some of our kids but in all of our kids, and understand this about what's fair here. those richest one-tenth of 1%, those biggest fortunes in america, about5,0 families all in last year, they paid about 3.2%he ofr total wealth

in taxes, all in. the 99% paid about 7.2%. they're already paying mor i just want to see a little more level playing field where we make an investment in our kids going forward. >> woodruff: i want to come back on the tax on the u wealthy. we've looked at that as well. analysts have said this is a plan th gat sound but it could be, a, a disin invest in what they call important transformative projix that couldransform society, number two, that it would create massive and expensive investigationsy the i.r.s., and number three, it may not be constitutional. >> oh, pleaease. i the idea that someone that has augeady amassed a fortune in this country is going to disinvest over 2 cents? i mean, that doesn't even make any sense. this proposal says, look, not punitive. it says if you built one of the great fortunes in america, this is the one-tenth of 1%, more

than 50 million dollars, that 50 millionth and first dollar, you thave to pitch in two cs and for every dollar above that. it is in effect, if you built a great fortune, god for you, or inherit,ed good for you, but understand, that great fortune was built in part using employees all of us helped pay to educate, in part getting your goods and service to market on roads and bridges all of us helped pay for. right now those fortunes are putting in less than the rest of america. let's just level that playing field a little bit. >> woodruff: question about foreign policy. the middle east, we're waiting to see a more comprehensive plan from the tru administration. but in the meantime, would you have as president trump has done, endorsed this permanent annexation of the golan heights that prime minister netanyahu has endorsed in israel? about what our ultimate gls

are and what we shoul urging. israel has a right to its security. and the palestinians have gha to dignity and to self-determination. i believe the best way that happens and what we have too as allies to both is to push in the direction of bringing them both to the negotiating table so that they make the decision together about what happens in israel. i believe the best way for that to happen is for the united states to push those parties. i think there is a real problem with us interfering in this way. >> woodruff: so that was a >> i think it was. >> woodruff: last thing i want to ask is about what some vos are saying about elizabeth warren. there is a piece in the current "time" magazine quoting some voters saying they haveat resens about supporting, i'm quoting, "another brainy woman for president," still smarting evidently they are from hillary clinton in 2016.

i talked to a woman in arizona yesterday.an she said, "it the like elizabeth warren," but what she said to me is, "shs e lectutoo much. in her public presentations, i don't get the sense she's listening to voters like me." what do you say? >> i get out every chance i ca and talk about where i came from. i rew up in oklahoma. all three of my older brothers joined the military. that was their ticket to the middle class. when we were growing up, our daddy had a lot of different jobs. and i was a kid wit dream. i wanted to be a public schoolteacher. by the time i graduated froml, high schmy family didn't have the money for an application to sd me to college, much less to pay for four years ofe. coll and i was one of those kids, i got a scholarship, yay. then i fell in love at 19, gotrr d and dropped out of

school, and i thought i had lost it all. and then i found a commuter college, about 45 minutes away, it cost $50 a semter. and for a price i could pay for on a part-time waitressing j, i had a chance to finish a four-year diploma and to realize my dream. i became a public schoolteacher. i was a special needs teacher. and i probably would still be doing that wor today, but by the time i finished my first year, was visibly pregnant, and the principal d what principals did back in those days. he wished me luc showed me the door, and hired someone else for the job. i spent my whole life on the fundental question of opportunity, how people get a chance. i got my chance, and i am so deeply grateful for it. i just want to see more andre

of our kids get a chance. >> woodruff: is that elizabeth wren coming across this campaign? >> i tell the story of my and why i'm in this race. i'm probably the least likely person to end up running for sresident. i never thought ts what i would do. i have known what i wanted to do all my life. i wanted to be a teacher. but i have also been somebody out there who has advocated on part of mstents, on the part of everybody getting a chance. that's an america that we can build and we can build it togeth but it's going to take all of us to do this. the folksho have theower right now, the folks who have the money, the folks who have the lobbyists, man, they're going to ma sure that they just keep tilting everything in this systemo trk a little better for them and a little better for themne you know, regulation over here, one nomination over the. it just keeps money flowing to

those at the top and leaves everybody else struggling. we have chance to change that. that's what it means to be a democracy. we can do this. that's what pulls me into this fight. >> woodruff: senbeator eli warren, thank you. >> thank you. so good to be here. >> woodruff: a fight overdi ster relief funding between congress and the president has been brewing for months. but as amna nawaz tells us, the battle may reach a turning point in the coming days. >> reporter: president trump and mbers of congress have struggled to agree on a disaster aid bill that would address the needs of several states across the country as well as puerto rico.of onhose states is florida. its panhandle community was devastated by hurricane michael seven months ago but the sunte needs moreng to continue its recovery. a relief package icurrently

stalled in the senate as senators attempt to find a solution that president trump will sign before memorial day weekend. to talk to us about where things stand, i'm joined by republican ovnator rick scott of florida. he was the state'snor when hurricane michael made landfall. senator scott, welcome back to the newshour. .thanks for making the ti i want to ask you now about that bill the house passed. it was a $17 billion disaster relief package last. it's now up to the senate. as i mentioned to see it throouugh. willote for it? >> well, let's see what ends up on the senate floor. here's what's frustrating. we're 218 days since hurricane michael hit our state. it was devastating. it was a category 5. to put things in perspective, after katrina, think it took something like ten days for disaster relief bill to be done. andrew, t last category 5 to hit our country in south florida, it was 34 days. sandy took 74 days. it's so frustrating that, you know, everybody can't come together and get something done. we all care about our state.

we all care about prto rico. so i don't know why people can't come together and say, let's put our odifferens aside and spend our time getting this done. we have to get this done before the memorial break. >> woodruff: senator, would you vote for the bil in its current form? >> well, what i have supported is a bill tont has accountability. i don't want to waste any money. but the bill that's in the house, i don't believe it will ever make it to the floor of the senate. nawaz: what would you want the change about what's in there? the bill has funding for mexico beach, panama city, it helps toi rebuild thforce base. the thing holding it up is the president's objection that it also has funding foruerto rico. do you object to that? >> no.re first what's been frustrating to me. chuck schumer has blocked the bill in the senate. this is something that my first words i said on the senate floor is how we have to take care of i went there eight times as governor. i went there once as a u.s. setor. we've go to provide money for

freak and we've got to make sure we have accountabil that's what i proposed. we have to make sure we don't waste money. o everybody i talked t puerto rico agrees with me. we don't want to waste any money. we w tt to get the mon get to the families that have been hurt. and why don't we get this done? right now it's been basically k schumer.by ch >> nawaz: senator, the idea that money is being wasted in puerto rico is something theha presidensaid again and again. right noit seems as if it is stalled because there is money for puerto rico in this bill. what do you say to your constituents who are still waitg for aid money th desperately need because the president doesn't want money to go the puerto rico? >> well, what i want is i want to do the things that will help puerto rico. step one, i fought to get the $600 million in for the food nutrition program, and then i heard what the president said, so i wand not just for puerto rico, but for every place else, let's put the parameters in tot make sure thney is not spent and let's get the money out as quickly as we can. that's what i have been pushing in the sate, but again, this

is something that for whatever chuck schumer has basically shut down any conversation to get something done here. >> nawaz: i hear you blahuming chuck r. do you also blame the president for holding this up? >> well, look, we can pass -- we don't have to have the president to pass the bill in the senate. but, you know, chuck -- senator shelby has had a bill. it seems like now for months or since i got up here, and chuck schumer will not let the democrats vote for it. why don't we support our bill and get the house and senate to sidown and figure out how to work together? the president does not have the opportunity sign anything until we passes something. eo let's passes it and figure out where are. >> nawaz: let me ask you something about some disclosures made about two florida counties that were hacked during the 2016 election. the f.b.i. won't publicly dilose which two counties were. do you know which two they were? >> absolutely. i had er briefing yey from the f.b.i. and at i want everyone to understand is what happened.

so as we kw, in the new report i think what they said now is one county was hacked by the russians. so i want to understand what happened there. and then my opponent 2018, bill nelson last summer said the russians were free to move around our election m, they were free the change the voter registration and things like that. at that point i asked the department of homeland security a the f.b.i. to find out if any of this was true. as governor, my job as governor is to make sure we have elections where you have a right to vote, iant you to vote, but i don't want there to be any fraud. they confirmed, one, that two counties had been hacked, and they said for national securit reasons that it would be harmful to national security that seey're not going to release the names of thoand so based on law i can't release those names i wanem -- i'm from the sunshine state. we have a lot of sunshine lawsos to disthings. so i've asked them to do that the earliest they can to release those, but they're not ready to

do that right now. but they also confirmed that what bill nelson said they had e dence of. they told me that last year. and they confirmed ttow that the russian and nobody changed the resus of 2016 or 018. >> nawaz: let me ask you opthis: e are hearing this news and they are worried that enough is not being done to make sure their vos will count. what can you tell them now about what you're doing to make sure the same thing doesn't happen in 2020? >> sure. as a governor, what i did is i added more cyber securitype s at the state level. the way it's set up in floraida, we a secretary of state's office and loc supervisor election, and then we sent money down to our supervisor elections to make sure they can do then same t and then we worked with them to make sure e that thwas nothing that impacted the elections. one thing f.b.i. and homeland security said yesterday is that florida was a great partner of

theirs to try toake sure that, you know, one, ourem syst weren't hacked, and number two, that to the extent they were, which th i said happen 2016, that it didn't impact the result, which is what they said. >> nawaz: senator scott, we just a minute left, but i want ed ask you about immigration. the president unve new immigration proposal in the rose garden today inch your state you have over 100,000 dreamers or daca recipients, people who werh br here as children. there was no protection nor plan for them in the preside's proposal today. so what is your message to those more than 100,000 ridents of florida today? >> well, we're an immigration st ve. i have beey supportive of making sure that the daca kids, we take care of them we also need to have a lot of people with t.p.s. we need a permanent fix for t.p.s and we have to secure our border. we have to have a package that one, iniy opinion, secures

our border to stop the problems we're dealing with. weove legal immigration, t not illegal immigration. we're an immigration state. thewe have to take care of daca kids, and we have to have a permanent fix for t.p.s. >> nawaz: senator rick scott÷$ for being with us today. >> thank you. >> woodruff: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: generation "z" begins to enter the workforce with diffeng priorities and career goals than millennials, new york city's metropolitan museum of art declares it will no longer accept donations from the controversial sackler family, and a navajo woman gives her brief but spectacular take on vitalizing communities like hers. it's been 25 years since the nation of south africa dismantled apartheid. while there s been political ogress, the young democracy

has also faced many setbacks-- most recently withailing infrastructure. rolling-u blackouts and wat restrictions have become part of daily life. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro starts his report in cape town. >> reporter: it's hard to escape the spectacular views, t iconic table mountain, beaches-- even penguins-- that put cape town atop so my travel bucket lists. it's also hard to imagine, butla year, this city of 3.7 million was brought to its kneeo by an epicught, one that dominated news headlines for months. >> dam levels are at 25%. >> reporter:fficials placed strict consumption limits anded even predi so-called day zero, when the taps would run completely dry. >> and day zero is preed for the 11th of may. >> reporter: in the end, the day dreaded did not arrive, thanks to some rainfall and also because consumers overall cut their water use by 60%.

>> so the first catch of water is just cold. ra's coming out of the shower it goes into a sepa bucket. >> reporter: vanessa burch showed me how carefully every drop is conserved-- beginning in the bathroom. >> all the shower water that we trap in the shower drain, the bucket there, is used to run the toilet. >> reporter: a sophisticated syst collects rain water int basement storage tanks-- enough for a ten-month reserve. >> so at the height of the 2017- '18 drought period, we were in fact completely independent of water. >> reporter: it's efficient, but also expensive to install, and pell out of reach of most cape town residents, esally the od% who live in neighborho like langa-- unincorporated settlements that are a legacy of apartheid or official racial separation. there's no running water in homes here-- aingle communal tap might serve several dozen families. still, conditions are better than last year, when some of

these taps would come on for only limited hours. and it is far better here than many other parts of sth africa. five-hundred miles away, in makhanda, population 70,000, some taps have already run dry. residents like noxolo saki inwat in lfor hours for a two day supply of drinking water so what have you been doing to cope? >> reporter: just how terrible? across south africa, that largely depends on where you live. in any city, you'll find a well- manicured and mostly white section, with first world living standards. across the way, what was officially a colored settlement, and growing out of it, an informal settlement, called sun city in this case, where living standards are as miserable as you'll find in any poor countrys here, amid tck-like homes,

two water taps serve about 300 residents. water was running the day we visited and selina pikes seized thopportunity to wash her faly's clothes. >> some days maybe there can be no water>>or even a week eporter: a week, no water? >> a week no water here in sun city. >> reporter: to get a sense of the magnitude of the water crisis in khanda, we visited the settler's dam. there's a sign here that warnsto boatero slow, but as you can also see, the shoreline has receded several hundred yards and this reservoir is at 7% of its capacity. to many experts, makhanda is a microcosm of a much larger water crisis: besides climate change, nge continuing two-year drought, they blame apoorly maintained infrastructure for creating the perfect storm. no one is exempt, not even the upale sections, home to several elite private schools, and rhodes university.

what do people not take for granted anymore that they once did? >> flushing toilets. showers, we're allowed a two- minute shower. so generally we're a bit dirtier. >> reporter: jane tanner, a hydrologist at rhodes, says such measures can only go so far, and that major structural changes to the water supply system are vineeded. >> psly under apartheid, our water supply scheme very much targeted the white population, and ther people that were not accounted for. but it hasn't en kept up and added to, and that's where we're at, at tor moment. >> rr: mzukisi mpaahlwa, makhanda's first black mayor, rays the city is committed to improving its wate infrastructure and merging its segregated systems into one that serves all residents. >> we're currently trying to link the two systems so that the water from the east come to the west and the water from the west can go to the east.

>> reporter: as city and government officials scramble to meet the emergency in makhanda, a south african islamic charity called "gift of the givers" has steppe, distributing bottled water is a first step. the group is alslocating and drilling bore holes or deep water wells. gideon groenwald is leading the effort. with g.p.s. guidance, a magnetometer and, he says, faith in god, groenwald has drilled 12 wells. it's a precision job to find cracks in the bedrock that lead to the aquifer below. >> it's just more than an inch and you have to hit it. beif you miss it you get m 1,000 liters an hour, which is not going to solve your problem. we want to get at ast 10,000 liters an hour to make it viable. >> reporter: once the watgr is tested, nwald connects it to a filtration system and a community tap.

mayor mpaahlwa, was along as one tap in the joza neighborhood was inaugurated. makhanda will soon replace bottled water with these taps but groundwater is not a sustainable solution. >> by the time t drought finishes, i think those aquifers are going to be seriously depleted. >> reporter: and she says makhanda may be a proverbial canary in the coal mine. >> we're a small town. we can, in a way, cope. translate that to a large city like one of the large african cities and you really have a nightmare situation on your hands. >> reporter: cape town barely escaped it, she says, but with growing populations and climate patternsf longer, more equent droughts, even the continent's most modern city will likely face the renewed threat of a day zero for many years to come. the pbs newshour, i'm fr de sam lazaro in makhanda, south africa. >> woodruff: fred's reporting is a partnership with the under-

told stories project at the university of st. thomas in minnesota. io >> woodruff: gener"z"-- the group born after 1996-- is starting to see its oldest members graduate from college and enter the workforce. while much has been said about how millennials havdereshaped the workplace, members of generation "z" are beginning to chart their own course with very different set of expectations and outlooks for their first jo. economics correspondent paul solman met up with financial journalist beth kobler to try to understand what all this means, and to find out how gen .z" is approaching the world of wo it's part of our weekly series, "making sense." >> this is wework... >> reporter: wework, where, for a monthly toll, you secure a spot in a shared work space for the young-- wi-fi, free beer, free coffee in inspirational

mugs. >> always half full. >> reporter: make a just a living. >> these are very much, affirmations. >> reporter: and perfect for college grads just moving into the job market, right? but is follow your bliss really a good idea at this point? >> i don't know. i wasn't about following my bliss. i was about moving out of my parents' house. >> rorter: but wework wasn't designed for old timers like me or even much younger youth koney guru betiner. architect miguel mckelvey-- whom i interviewed a few years ago-- co-founded it in 2010 for fellow gen-"x"ers and millennials. >> we're a community company. >> repter: a hopping, hip sanctuary for self-starters but to accommodate any wor schedule, and the jobs of the future. >> wework ishe office space of tomorrow. >> reporter: so, is this the future of work for the next generation-- gen "z"? we gathered a diverse group of soon-to-be college grads. what's the reaction to a place like this?

>> the second i walked in, i was like, "wow, this is nice." >> because it has so many nolors, it would be like, like more thought provog. >> two thumbs up. go s. >> reportethe optics appealed. but ar startups their dream? like fourpost, say. >> fourpost is a shopping experience for today's family. >> reporter: the 18-person firm runs retail pop-up shops featurg trendy brands like polaroid-- yup, polaroid has made a retro come-back. so it's like a cool department store. ay cool department store >> reporter: for smaller brands that aren't going to open their own. w yeah absolutely. or large brands tht test the market. like marshall speakers is one. theanears is a great one-- headphones. you guys are young and cool sosu i' you've heard of them. >> i'm old and i have no idea what they are. >> they are candy colored headphones. >> reporter: okay, cool company. but our gen-"z"ers had practical questions for fourpost manager frannie shellman.

>> compared to like a larger ommpany right, do you guys offer like arable salary? >> yeah, definitely. wo i would say probably in the 50s range like thad be entry level. >> just happens to be the national average. starting salies for college graduates is $50,000. >> a typical day of work from start to finish. how would that look like? >> we then we're usually working through lunch. there's a t of late nights. that's something to expect with a startup, but no one here is going to say if you need to go home for a family thing you can't go. we have the benefit of being able to work remotely. >> reporter: so flexible work with the great allure of all start-ups: grow fast, move up anst-- the dream of millennials, who consistentlycareer success and then a good work- life balance as top priorities. but gen "z"ers? kobliner set up a game to test their order of workplace preferences. >> here are five qualities that people look for in a job. >> reporter: salary? diversity? health insurance? meaningful work?

mentorship? we'll give you a little time-- less than we gave the kids-- to guess their choices. well, tied just below the top: a diverse work environment-- and gen "z" is the most diverse neration in our country's history. and-- big surprise-- a good sala. >> when you go to college you, you're like "okay, i need to focus on somhing that can fun me, my husband, and my two kids, my house with a white picket mafence," so i think that ybe the anxiety is not in getting a job it's in getting the right job. >> this school is $70,000 a year. >> reporter: as we saw with gen "z" high schoolers in a recent tustory, the fear of being on the low road of an ever-more two-tracked labor market always lurks. gen "z" suffered through the anxiety of the great recession as kids, so small wonder they're economic pragmatists. a u.c.l.a. survey found that eight in 10 college freshmen -- gen "z"'s first wave-- think becoming "well off" is a top

priority-- the highest level in the study's 50-year history. but even more important is securing that first job. 88% of graduating gen-"z"ers say they chose their majors th a job in mind. like saad kabir, who began, like many of his friends, in engineering. >> my brother is a lawyer and he would tell me the people he graduated of them didn't even get a job after law school and it was like hard because the market waser turated, but if you go to a market where you know that there are jobs i guess ere's no anxiety involved. so since i did education i'm not as worried because in new york city we always need teachers. >> reporter: for similar reasons, lauren ques in clinical psychology. >> my family says that i'll never beut of work because a long as they're alive there'll be people with problems. >> reporter: but here's the answer to the quiz: all but one of our sdents said their top job priority was meaningful work. how many of you guessed that? here's jacob clementfor example.

>> meaningful work for me means like, bo something that i really care about and really like i want to make a difference in and something that i think cod make a difference in helping other people out. it's definitely still important toe that i'm able to make living and able to support a family someday, but i definitely want to love what i'm doing and evnot dread going into wory day. >> reporter: jermaine cail intends to become a pediatric surgeon. >> if it's not meaningful what'n the . if you're not really into what your patients are really telling u, why are you going into medicine? >> reporter: but that promptedn one last questom me: have all of you been told by professors or parents or whomever that you're going to probably have to change careers? >> yes. >> reporter: and that caused beth kobliner to wonder: >> where do you guys learn job skills if you realize you haven't learned them in college? >> i would probably go to youtube or go to some type of website that can show me how to do something like very quickly. >> reporter: missy dreier echoed jermaine cail. >> i like recently was working on my senior thesis and i had to cort of last minute learn how to

and i had never taken computer science or anything like that, but i actually found it just kind of googling was super helpful and i was able to do it. >> reporter: and maybe this is why gen "z" can prioritize gful work: because even facing career impermanence, specificlls are easier to pick up than r any generation before. for the pbs newshour, economics correspondent, reporting from new york. ca woodruff: these days there's a growin for new accountability for past behavior and the pressure is increplingly being d to institutions benefiting from philanthropy. the money behind major gifts is often at issue. pd the opioids epidemic h that front and center for museums, hospitals, and universities. as jeffrey brown tells us, the metropolitan museum of art yesterday became the latest

museum to turn down some money from a family linked with the manufacturing of oxycontin. our story is part of our regular series on arts and culture, "canvas". >> brown: one of the met's premier attractions, the temple of dendur, lies in the museum's glass-enclosed sackler wing, nayd for and largely funded the family behind purdue pharma, the compy that's been criticized and sued for its role in the opioid crisis. protesters have targeted the museum, demanding it cut financial ties with the family and remove the sackler name. other museums, including the guggenheim, the american museum of natural history, and the tte in london have also come fiunder re for taking sackler money, and have said they won't accept future donations. daniel weiss is president and c.e.o. of the metropolitan jseum of art. ns us from new york. thank you very much for joining

us, mr. weiss. i know the museum has been reviewing is for months. y in the end are you taking this action, and how much did blic pressure play a role? >> well, at the met we recognize that philanthropy and the support of don't verse a very important part of how we have come to being. every part of the museum is really built through fund-raising one way or and gifts some we take this seriously. over the last year or so as we t foll opioid crisis and we've gotten a better niderstanding of what actually is hap, and as the facts have become more clear, we felt this was the rightime for us to take action. so we gathered our community together. we did some thinking. yes, the outside com always makes a difference. we listen to the public. we care about what they think. and we triedp o develoa solution that we felt was right for the instioit >> brown: the sackler family, as you say in your statement, as a wholhas given millions over several generations. this action targets just some members of the family with limited donations. should it be seen, this action,

as more symbolic? >> well, i think ultimately the action is a substantive one around aligning our decisio toward the people who are most involved in the opioid crisis.f somee sacklers are not directedly involved in the opioid crisis, and many of the gifts the met hs received over the course of more than 50 years predate oxycontin. they predate purdue earma. so thoifts really have nothing to do with this issue. we tried to distinguish then between those who are invlved in this particular crisis and those who weren't. in that sense i suppose you could say it'syolic action, but we think of it as a substante decision around who is most involved in this issue. >> brown: and you have decideddo not to takn the signs, not to remove the sackler name as activists and protesters have called for. why is that? the name will be there for prominently on the museum. >> two reasons for that:,irst of aany of those names were

put up on the walls of the museum long before ths crisis ca to the fe, long before oxycontin was created some those gifts have nothing to doith oxycontin. therefore, just because the name sackler is in a particuitlar spaceoesn't mean that those who are associated with that gift have any guilt or responsibility. so that's one reason. and the second reason is this is an ongoing investigation. there is something like several hundred different lawsuits under way in this country around the oxycontin andpioid crisis generally. so the fact base isn't known to us at this p toint. if ins out that there is more information that is definitive in how understand the way our donors have behaved, it is not out of the question w would review that decision and make a different one, but at this point we don't have that formation. we don't feel that would be responsible. >> brown: this issue, as you know, has just grown and, grown and the sackler family is just part of it. the questiowhremainse do you and other institutions draw

the lines on what kind of donor behavior is acceptable and who will determine that? >> well, ultimately it's the responsibility of the trustees and the senior administration to make those decisions about whose gifts we can accept and under what circumstances we would say no. our general guidelines are t t are a philanthropic institution. we've been built that way. we do not subject oor donto some litmustist around their political point of vw or any kind of partisan agenda. we really -- welmost align philanthropy to freedom of expression. people have the right thus support or various reasons wherever they're coming from. we do draw the line, however, when we believe that gifts might impede our fundamental mission, they might have a relationship to the core functioning of thean institutio our identity, and in that case we might decide not to accept a gift. that threshold is higher than just a litmus test around the

personality or likability of a particular donor. >> brown: le me just ask you very briefly, though, are you now looking at all of your donors and ben factors to see where the money ca from, or is this a one-off response in a particular case? >> well, we actually do it all the time anyway. the museum is very careful about when we accept gifts. we know who is giving us the giftavs. wea sense of who they are and where they come from. we have some sense of where the ney comes from. we don't engage in a deep ic investigation about that, but we do have a sense of all of that, and so we exercise that discriminion in judgment along the way. we have not decided to review all of the gifts we've ever received to make sure that the people who are giving them to us meet some standard but we are mindful of that. we have always been mindful of that. in thicase, because the fact base is evolving around thei opioid s, we felt it was necessary to review those decisions and exerce our right not to accept gifts. >> brown: daniel weiss,

president of the metrof litan museumt new york. thank you very much. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> woodruff: sexual assaults and eeabuse towards women have given greater attention in this me too moment. this week's "brief but spectacular" looksat a population often overlooked in c the nationversation-- the native american community.be kanazbah crotty is encouraging support of survivors as one of the few female delegates onlhe navajo coun and leading a nation-wide campaign, "start by believing." on navajve more rapes nation than cities like detroit or san diego. how is that possible? that's possiblbecause we have a systemic failure and how we fereport crimes, how peopl protected, how sexual violence

has been normalized, and how sexual violence was used in theu past to displafrom the land. we're here still on the ground, just trying to get basic services like police officers, broadband service. if we could get 9-1-1 on navajo nation, we would be doing something spectacular. te're literally in the dark when it comes tcommunications, when it comes to emergency response. we have one shelter here and it can only house eight people. i sit on the navajo nation council here in window rock, arizona. my family originates from the sheep springs area along the chuska mountns where we have en for many generations. so my family's story and the story of myself is like many navajos. a story of being forced away from land, a story of forcemo l of our grandparents into the school system.

at means dealing with intergenerational trauma, knowing that my grandmas who returned from the long walk. the pain and sorrow of losing their home, their relatives, their animals and thing back and rebuilding and, and using our land, using our prayers, using our ceremonies to continue that strength. they put literal prayers in the ground for us, for me, for my children, to know that we would come back home, to know that i would be standg here one day in the leadership position helping my people. as a navajo woman, i c talk about topics that our navajo men, our leaders, have not felt comfortable talking about. allowng me to tell my story on the floor of not only my experience being groped by an elected official while i was a political staffer. but to tell the story of what's going on in our communities.

that's a story of families that are steeped in violence using alcohol and drugs to numb their pain, it's boys who were molested and traumatized who are now men, who are in s because they're vulnerable. individuals at every single level have been touched by this. family members, community members, professionals have told me that they have been either a victim of violence, sexually assaulted, a survivor. the crisis of violence against navajo women, we're just at the tip of the iceberg. we have to change that, that norm, that me hearing young girls saying, not "if" it's going to happen when we do our prevention work, but, "what do i do when it happens?" my name is amber kanazbah crotty and this is my brief but spectacular ta on revitalizing navajo communities.

>> woodruff: so hard to hear but so important. >> woodruff: finally, a quick yex about california's high-speed rail. we misstated the amount of the granted that the nitrump adration killed. it is $930 million. and that is the n tonight.r i'm judy woodruff. join us online and again here tomorrow ening with mark shields and david brooks. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and we'll see you soon. di >> major fun for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ab >>l. a language app that teaches real-life conversations in a new language. >> consumer cellar. >> bnsf ra

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