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he's taught writing at columbia university, northwestern, xavier university and my miami university. andrew has decided to go home to scotland for a brief break and brush up on his wonderful brogue. so andrew, thanks for joining us from vacation. >> you're welcome. >> so technical seems to be supporting us. and so ann will be doing a brief presentation on george koval, and then andrew is going to ask her some expert questions, and then we are going to turn to your questions from the audience. so without further ado, i am going to disappear and hand this over to ann. >> thank you, amanda, thank you, andrew, and thank you, everyone, for coming. and i shall begin by just saying that it's my job as a narrative nonfiction writer to use the art of storytelling to engage general readers about meaningful issues. my quest is always to find the compelling narrative that will bring alive for the reader all issues and individuals at the core of the book's topic. the five criteria for choosing topics, must have significance, possibly be in danger of falling through the cracks of history, must be

columbia university researchers estimate first two lifted more than 3 million kids out of poverty. >>> i am anne makovec at the live news desk following possibility of the bay area getting a lot of federal money to help with the huge housing crisis we have here. taking a live look at the city of san francisco where u.s. secretary for housing and urban development is on day two of her visit to talk about the president's build back better plan which would expand access to federal subsidies for new housing. she met with house speaker nancy pelosi and mayor london breed to tour a new affordable neighborhood,thcalifornians ex melast best chance something abouit. >> we not w we treat pe at the thos at its sun set. we cannot afford to not take care of our children or our parents and grandparents. >> the complex she visited run by hope sf has 55 homes already occupied and 167 about to be ready for rental. the hud secretary is going to tour another complex this afternoon and hold a conversation on the problems. we'll be covering it. >> thanks. >>> big changes for our weekend. today we have tha

a team of researchers from columbia university determined that the first round lifted three million children out of poverty. and that is all eligible children had access to the payments, child poverty would be reduced by 40%. the is ecenter or budget and policy priorities estimated that in west virginia 93% of children would benefit from a permanent expansion of the credit. maybe that is the most important public policy issue where you live. if you are receiving this expanded child tax credit, call in this morning and tell us what it's doing for you. loni in brownsville, pennsylvania. we'll go to you. good morning to you. caller: good morning. host: tell us what's happening in brownsville, pennsylvania. caller: the roads, roads. this infrastructure deal that the government wants, i would like to know what the federal government does with the federal highway use tax, commercial trucks pay each year, billions of dollars, why aren't they contributing it to the roads, bridges, and tunnels? i'm sure there is plenty of the money there to cover all this stuff. i never heard one question about where

also this week, woke racism, columbia university professor john mcquarter weighs in on racism in america. and in the deep places, new york times columnist -- recounts his struggle with lyme disease. he will be our guest on our live monthly author call-in program "in depth" coming up sunday, november 7th. find these titles this coming week and watch for many of these authors to appear in the near future on booktv. >> columbia university visiting scholar hend distribution recently argued that conservative evangelicals do not uphold christian values. here's a portion of that program. >> yeah, i must say i wrote the book out of a sense of sadness and also outrage at what the right-wing evangelical christians are doing to this nation and to the way we are distorting and misrepresenting the state to so many, to the debt rim of so many in society. and, in fact, some of their dialogue and rhetoric has been death-dealing, actually, particularly their support of a hateful former president who's caused so much pain and division in this society. that's why -- i want to share with you a little from t

also being published this week in both racism columbia university linguistics professor john mcwhirter weighs in on race in america. economists , pinckney suggests socialist policies are a necessary counterbalance to capitalism and time for socialism. and in the places new york times columnist roth recounts his struggle with lyme disease. david downing will be our guest on our monthly call in graham in-depth coming up sunday, september 7. findings titles this coming week wherever books are sold and watch for many of these authors to appear in the near future on book tv . >> columbia university visiting scholar ovary hendrix recently argued that conservative evangelicals do not uphold christian values. there's a portion of that program. >> i must say out of a sense of sadness and also outrage at what the right-wing evangelical christians are doing to this nation and to the way they are distorting and misrepresenting the faith of through so many to the detriment of so many in society. in fact, some of their dialogue and rhetoric has been a debt to their support of a hateful form of preju

. >>> columbia university visiting scholar recently argued that conservative evangelicals do not uphold christian values. here is a portion of that program. >> i must say i wrote the book out of a sense of sadness and also outrage at what the right-wing evangelical christians are doing to this nation and to the way they are misrepresenting to so many to the detriment of so many in society. some of the dialogue and rhetoric has the particular support of a hateful form of president is caused so much pain and division in this society. i want to share with you something a little from a book to give some sense of what i'm up against in my outrage. we have seen so seriously evangelicals can brace the love your neighbor as yourself. so seriously in fact that it inspired them and organized the economic exploitation so how then does it become today's forward leaning exclusion, the raging christian faction openly supporting persons and policies that are essentially antithetical to the message of jesus christ? it is offered by the very evangelical book. the answer is this. they are succumbed to wh

chauvinistic as an adjunct professor at columbia university school of international and public affairs, he joins as by skype from new york city. so president, she usually, i suppose, were accustomed to him taking a very assertive, bold approach on the global stage. usually why the absence some of it's simply practical, you know, he hasn't left china since the outbreak of, of covey, mainly because china has taken a kind of 0 tolerance policy towards forts go good and travel. it is very hard for anyone to come in or come out of china without going through pretty extensive warranty. so that's one thing. you know, the other thing is that china has seen a bit of a shift in priorities in word. it is still assertive on the world stage, but whether or you know, attending a summer is necessarily, she's biggest priority. i think that that has changed. it is, it seems to suggest there are some domestic reasons for this decision is obviously chosen not to attend to crucial summits that are coming up. caught 26 on climate change and the g 20 bit. when you say it's not in china's priorities, i mean,

robert notional, say, in the most little bit, his with one v o, professor from the columbia university, as well to take the floor book. thank you very much. sure. it's kildere for, for me it's shown it's a disappointment. had i not been able to be in, we're all, all of our church and share my conference. but i'm particularly pleased to have the part of this session. the topic of all i was sure as well, very transcendent and fundamental questions. my admire of all i for doing that i am mister president, putin has certainly listen to the challenge of better gender address that an extremely engaging and revealing passion. i question, however, is narrower, what's more specific and i apologize for descending to their smell, but it's a question which are important to my country. i think it's important in your question, although neither your government nor the biden administration believe a reset of the us russian relationship is possible at this juncture, oriental evaluate, be, or how you would assess being of aleutian on the u. s. russia relationship. since you're meeting with president, wh

philippine bornjournalist at columbia universityjoins us columbia university joins us live columbia universityjoinsult circumstances. truly maria has been under intense pressure over the last five years since duterte has beenin five years since duterte has been in power, she has been trolled, threatened with death and rape, she and rappler have had close to a dozen lawsuits. she has tremendous strength of character, she has also largely been locked up in the pandemic, but allowed to travel, just last week the government refused to let her travel to greece, her mother was ill —— to the us, she wanted to visit her mother and she hasn't been allowed. it is a lot of tremendous pressure, she has shown courage, equanimity and grace through all of that. my auestion grace through all of that. my question then is, what keeps her going under such difficult circumstances, do you think? what motivates her? i circumstances, do you think? what motivates her?- circumstances, do you think? what motivates her? i think she is a firm believer _ what motivates her? i think she is a firm believer of _ what motivates he

and i'm the currency fellow at the columbia university. let's start with the voting experience. daphne you were telling everybody about how exciting it was to get out and how excited was it to get out and vote? well, i think if you compare the election with the previous one, it was no bomb attack. there was no curve you and it was clear that there was some sense of security and it was very clean. yes, the turn out was very low. but at the same time, we have to know that the election was a result of the protest happening and back that in 2019. so pushing for elections on time already is the when for the people and to go out there and to use the right . anyway, and i think at a very special. yeah, you know, i pick up a well, the best selection came after quite as well to start with the 1st early elections that taking place in new york or post a major protest, a protest her that it came very much like as a result of like 1011 years of public resentment calling for reform and a better future for iraq. and it's about time that i liked her to ma

earlier i spoke to the director of the stellar centre for investigative journalism at columbia universityntense pressure over the last five years since duterte has been in power, she has been trolled, threatened with death and rape, she and rappler have had close to a dozen lawsuits. she has tremendous strength of character, she has also largely been locked up in the pandemic, but allowed to travel, just last week the government refused to let her travel to greece, her mother was ill and she wanted to come to the us to visit her and she hasn't really been allowed. it is a lot of tremendous pressure, and she has shown courage, equanimity and grace through all of that. he my question then is, what keeps her going under such difficult circumstances, do you think? what motivates her? i think she is a firm believer of the role of the press as watchdog, the tagline that rappler uses is "hold the line", and this is what she is doing, she will hold the line for as long as it takes. she's a firm believer in the right of an independent press and a watchdog of the press. and what do you think about

and with the columbia university law school clinic she published a landmark study. invitation and wastewater in rural communities in the united states. and examination of inequality for the framework of human rights. one of the foremost advocates. then to serve as the 23rd president of the national congress of american indians and and the keynote address for environmental justice to highlight not only to understand the widespread impact of climate change and fellowship on —- pollution but what along the coast of washington that many americans first became aware of environmental justice when they saw police training and teargas fighting the dakota access pipeline freezing temperatures in 2016 we are very much looking forward to that perspective and then the ceo and cofounder of an online collaborative platform to have an unprecedented campaign to draft the environmental justice to serve on the board and to be one of the top 100 creative people in business and has been a fellow with the harvard kennedy school for democracy. bringing the former congressional staffer an

he's a perfect bloke to provoke the woke, columbia university professor and author of the brand-new booke can drop more beats than a clumsy farmer. rapper, producer, ra. him she puts razor blades in her own halloween candy, fox news contributor kat timpf. he is so tough he goes bobbing for pineapples. the n.w.a. world television champion, tyrus! welcome to the show, nice to meet you. >> it's good to meet you too. >> greg: you have good timing for this book, woke racism. >> there's an awful lot about out there lately. >> where does this fit? at the idea of docents. >> how many people have gone to that museum and saw those women and said i wish i were one of them. the idea is you have to battle white power, white people have all the power you have to battle that. if you're not battling that you're not going to get into heaven and you have to get rid of the white docents, condoleezza rice is a white supremacist all of it makes sense if you understand there is a church of battling white supremacy and that being the only thing you do other than may be taking some lessons on the recorder now a

of michigan, 82 diversity officers, western washington university, black only housing, and columbia universityrate graduation ceremonies. what's to be gained by pitting students against one another? >> well, you have to remember, todd. these are offices in search of tasks. so their original purpose was legal compliance but they've moved office of diversity, equity and inclusion, they've moved beyond legal compliance. now they're departments of ideological enforcement. so you have a system, the system is no longer -- it's lost its original purpose which is to find truth. it's no longer finding truth. it's diversity, equity and inclusion and the ideologies that go along with that. grievance based ideologies. todd: if i'm a parent out there, do the benefits outweigh the harm of sending my kid to college anymore. just a few years ago, it was assumed that the best way to an economic happiness life is through education, through college but now i'm not so sure. what say you? >> well, there are new institutions that are being built and i'm a part of those new institutions and so if you could just hold

craig spencer at columbia university medical center. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> do you share that optimism? do you feel we are turning a corner? >> i think anyone looking at the numbers you presented would realize we are collectively turning a corner. as i warned at the beginning of the pandemic in march and april of 2020, we will have this virus roll around the country and cause, you know, different mini pandemics in many places. right now, if the national numbers are looking better than a few weeks ago, we are still seeing that places those disproportionately unvaccinated are seeing a lot of cases and hospitalizations and a lot of death. there is still a lot of virus circulating in the country making it dangerous for anyone unvaccinated. if the metrics are improving, 1,800 deaths a day is sad because every single death is preve preventible. >> despite the positive signs, some experts say we are living in two americas as things improve in vaccinated parts the country, they are bleak in places where are hesitant to get

reporter: summer bio charges around $100 for pcr tests, licensed from columbia university. while it is the lowest cost on the market, state records show the turnaround time is also one of the fastest. in the first two weeks of october, 96% of pcr samples were processed within 24 hours, yet public records obtained by the abc 7 news i team show the state's contract with perkinelmer is costing more. during that same time here -- time period, only 33% of their samples were processed within one day. the contract is set to renew this week, we asked the state if they have been actively looking at more cost-effective alternatives, like the example we shared, publicly available on their website. california department public health sent the following statement, the state is constantly evaluating the testing needs. it includes various modalities, collection sites were testing is most needed and struggled to take hold. if the states contrast allows cd ph to terminate their agreement ending time with 30 days notice. for better test or equivalent test becomes available at lower cost. des

where do we find the money without the taxpayer money coming in to support columbia university and the other elite schools doing it as well. also giving it to education which are so nonpartisan. theyey are 50/50 republican democrat registration. they are very open to the conservative. >> yes. >> yes is time for closing statements so mark why don't you go first. >> civics is a different thing. there's my nation and myself and what we want to do is build a good positive relationship and i don't think reflective patriotism is enough for most students. we need something. the curriculum has to have an inspiring and i'm talking about the roadmap becoming duhcry kill him. it's got to be filled with american greatness. students have to know and of course they have to know stonewall jackson fought for the wrong darn side, of course but they should also know what jackson did in chancellorsville and what happened that night. it's a story to read about apart from the moral problem here. they need to read masterpieces of american literature and art. emily dickinson they need to know what happened t

were all they find the money without federal government and the taxpayers coming in to support columbia university putting civics together and the other elite schools doing it as well and also of course giving school of education yourself nonpartisan. they were 50/50 republican democrat registrations on the faculty of schools of education. that is very open to conservative positions. michael: all right, thank you market. it while it is time for a closing statement. some are appointed to go first targeted back to the roadmap predict. mark: civics is a different think in terms of chemistry. there is a my nation myself, for these students and what we want to do is build a good and positive relationship. and i don't think that the reflective patriotism it is for most, for most students, we need something more common than that and something more that we need to work harder. the tired brick curriculum has have an inspiring, becoming the correct and current curriculum. he has come to be filled with american greatness. the students have to know and of course they have no stonewall jackson fought for the w

>> joining us now to discuss this and more is the director for the center of journalism at columbia university, coed tore of a new book "the matter of black lives" which is terrific and sucks you in. we'll get to that in a second. i want to talk about facebook and this whistle-blower interview and these revelations. as somebody who studies this, what is the responsibility that facebook has and how does this whistle-blower shine a light on how it is being abrogated. >> we are an institution, we have a profession that is protected by the constitution. that is an awesome responsibility. facebook has operated, despite what they say, in many instances like a media company. they have the same responsibility. we haven't seen that be the guiding ethic in the company's operation. best indicator is the way it has facilitated authoritarian regimes abroad. so it's not really a shock, particularly the comments about january 6th. it's not particularly shocking that it could be useful for means corrosive to democracy here. . >> one of the things that came out during this interview was that this whistle-blowe

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where will they find the money without the taxpayer succumbing into support columbia university puttingng civics together and the other elite schools are doing as well. and also giving those two schools of education which are so nonpartisan. they are 50/50 republican/democrat ofistration on the faculty schools of education for their very open to conservative o positions. sign for closing statements. >> civics is a different thing. it is a relationship. for these students and what we want to do is build a good positive relationship. i don't think the reflective patriotism is enough for most students that we need something more fervent than that. and we need some fire. the curriculum has to have inspiring and what's becoming curriculum. it's got to be filled with american greatness. students have to know. stonewall jackson fought for the wrong darnn side. of course they should also know about jackson's bill and what happened that night that is a story to read about and part from the moral problems here they need to read masterpieces of american literature and art. emily dickinson's adverse

also today working grad students at columbia university in new york walked out of their classrooms as well. they plan to strike next week if they don't believe what they believe is a fair contract. at the kellogg's cereal company, 1,400 factory workers are entering their fourth week on strike. four weeks of the kellogg's strike, trying to get better hours and wages. at john deere, the big ag company, the big agricultural equipment company, it's more than 10,000 americans about to enter their third week of strike at john deere. you might remember last week we reported that the u.s. secretary of agriculture, tom vilsack, made an unprecedented trip to the picket line, visited the john deere workers picketing in iowa. during that visit tom vilsack showed his own union card showing those striking workers, i'm here for you. and when that happened last week, we actually consulted a presidential historian and a labor historian, both of whom told us that that had never happened before. a visit by a sitting cabinet secretary in support of americans out on strike. that is something that we've ne

dara kass from columbia university medical center. where do you stand on all of this?ownward slope in cases followed by hospitalizations and deaths. we've seen this cycle happen over and over again. the cycle from the summer to winter last year actually was shorter than the one we're seeing now. this is a pretty large surge that's coming down. it's optimistic that cases are going down. i would agree it is always concerning that, until people get fully vaccinated, until policies are consistent, we are always vulnerable to another surge, especially am months is it the persistently unvaccinated people. >> we've got to admit the information has been quite confusing from the experts at the cdc and beyond about whether this is the last wave. before delta, the cdc was telling us we didn't have to wear mass ksz anymore. the president wupz there at the white house celebrating the fourth of july. where are we standing right now? should we stop wearing our masks fairly soon or feel confident or what? >> we need to respect the fact that our information changes and the guidance cha

and a staff writer for the new yorker and professor of journalism at columbia university, he is coauthor of, the matter of black lives. michelle, i'd like to begin with you tonight, and your reaction to that video, of senator sinema, you wrote, one of europe and pieces, about her current posture in the senate. in there she, is continuing, a completely, i don't know what's a call, defiance? of public accountability? is it an inability to comprehend? go ahead sorry. >> it looks to me like contempt for public accountability. what's significant is, you can sort of make an argument, that you're not accountable to the national press corps, if you're talking about your constituents. if you're talking to the people who put you in office. but what progressives, particularly progressives globalized to elect senator sinema to the senate in 2018 say. is that she won't meet with, them she won't talk with them. she doesn't do any sort of public events. in arizona, and so, i disapprove of the stunned people pulled the other day, when they followed her into the bathroom, but nobody has been able to comm

kelly posner is a professor of psychiatry at columbia university. so good to see you, doctor.ry sobering and what it tells me is that we have a lot of work to do. here's the good news, fredricka. we know, you know, as much as this has been our tragic paradox that takes more firemen than fire, more police than crime, more lives than car accidents, more soldiers than combat, we actually know that this is our one preventable cause of death. when you step back and look at the big numbers, despite the fact that for over 20 years the suicide rate kept going up, each and every year, in the last two years we've seen it go down. last year in 2020 it went down by 6%. >> why do you think that is? >> i think it's because what we're doing with identification and messaging and addressing sigma, is actually working. we know the pieces to the formula. let me tell you what i think they are. >> okay. >> we must find the people suffering in silence and connect them to the care they need. did you know that nearly 50% of people who died by suicide have seen their primary care doctor the month befo

of the chicago tribune, and staff writer for the new yorker and professor of journalism at columbia university what's brought you to the points of going public with your thinking about this challenge now? >> well, being out of the news business makes it easier. i must admit. i was just, i watched the news every day, and you see all of the dishonesty, and you wonder why isn't called out so much. i was in editing stories for four decades. four decades ago, i think, there was some similarity and honesty, and in corruption, with the democratic or republican parties. they were close enough to wear again as i said in the, tweet if you quoted a republican, quoted a democrat, that added up to somewhat fairness. but you've seen a dramatic problem, in my opinion with the way the republican party is being very dishonest, just lies lies lies. corruption, corruption, corruption. in the democrats in my opinion becoming think about what they were 30 40 years ago. you have this gigantic imbalance and how these parties are behaving, in fact one of the parties isn't really behaving like a party, it's reclaiming

recipient of a fellowship at the leon levy center for biography, donner has taught writing at columbia university, wesleyan university, and bernard. she appeared with her new book "all the frequent troubles of our days: the true story of the american woman at the heart of the german resistance to hitler." in it she explores the remarkable life of her great-great-aunt million red harnack. i the only identified person from the united states to be a leader in the german resistance. one review of the book reads thusly, combining meticulous scholarship and sparkling narrative, rebecca donner's all the frequent troubles of our days brings to light for the first time the central role played by mildred harnack in germany's homegrown depression to nazi rule. donner's portrait of the cruelly aggressive system shows what can happen when amidst economic insecurity and anguish over disassociating cultural change, a nation embraces demagoguery over democracy. coincidentally enough, that very praise was written by tonight's interviewer, david clay larch. he is a professor at the university of san francisco, sen

columbia university study says if most products currently made from fossil fuels used, recycle carbon of greenhouse gases would be removed from our atmosphere. that's about 70. of the total carbon dioxide that needs to be removed from the atmosphere every year until 2050 if we want to stop global temperatures from rising by some 35 degrees straight back to our meteorologist mark tamayo. i love when we get to see your backyard mark icu jacket it up, but you're not holding an umbrella. so that says a lot. yeah those are some very accurate observations. gaussian and frank. yes we do have maybe a light mist or drizzle here and if that rainfall picks up, i definitely have the umbrella standing by, and i think that would be a good plan for everyone over the next few days. and typically in october. maybe that the script would be okay. we have a weak system fall apart, say by halloween, and maybe producing a few sprinkles. this will not be the case. we're talking about multiple systems. of course of the one that moved in last night, not extremely strong, but still enough to produce some rainf

whose senior research scholar at the weatherhead east asia institute at columbia university and professorof law and international affairs at university in india. a public intellectual in hong kong he was a professor in law at theil university until late 2016. his scholarship and engaged with issues on human rights, rule of law and constitutionalism in emerging states with frequent publication and public affairs journalism foreign affairs and the journal of democracy as well ass media commentary and the press award for the commentary in the south china post in 2014 on the umbrella movement. we will w then hear from mark clifford whose president of the committee for freedom in hong kong and the author tomorrow the world with china's crackdown and its plan to end freedom everywhere. he's also been editor-in-chief of the south china morning post publisher and editor in chief of the standard and the asia regional editor for businessweek. he co-authored the wto director general and changing china world trade published at the time of entry. he's the author of the greedy asia a business case for

. >> reporter: columbia university law school professor carol sanger is a noted expert on abortion law will have an abortion some time in their life. >> reporter: sanger points out that most women who have abortions already have at least one child. but she says the supreme court never authorized an absolute right to abortion. what's the rit that "roe vs. wade" grants to women? >> the right to decide to terminate a pregnancy prior to viability. it is not abortion on demand. it is a viability. it is simply, or not so simply, the ability of a fetus to live outside its mother's womb. >> reporter: there is no one moment that has ever been established when this happened? >> there is no one moment in time. >> reporter: and many abortion rights advocates say life starts at the moment of conception. this woman has helped craft some of kentucky's most stringent abortion laws, including one that will come before the u.s. supreme court this week on a procedural issue. so you just think that if a woman becomes pregnant, then she should have no child? but to bear the >> we act like bearing ail puni-

>> i have long been a great admirer he is a professor at columbia university from uganda asian ugandan. he has published many books but he did an excellent book on sudan that everyone should read. not understanding what was happening in the north and the south and all. but he started working on settler colonialism a decade or so ago with speeches and articles and then publish this book last year which is just brilliant. so, he had asked me to read the book i was on a panel discussing the book at columbia. i would become friends, we have not met in person. in his book he also is a neither native nor settler uses my indigenous peoples history of the united states as one of the references. the deals in the book with united states which is really unusual to deal with burton on u.s. people. it's a real breakthrough in that sense because he is african, international and it brings u.s. settler colonialism to a much larger audience than before. but it also deals with apartheid south africa and palestine israel with colonialism. it is a really, really important book. >> host: we also want to sh

he's a professor at columbia university in uganda. he has published many books.didn't excellent book on sudan that everyone should read. not understanding what was happening there in the north and the south but he started working on settler colonialism a decade or so ago with speeches and articles and then publish this book last year. he's a native settler and he's just brilliant. he asked me to read the book and i was on a panel discussing the book at columbia and i would become friends. we haven't met in person and in his book he is native -- neither negative nor settler and uses my indigenous peoples history of the united states as one of thet references. he deals in a look with the united states which is very unusual to deal with in studies of colonialism for non-u.s. people so it's a real breakthrough in that sense because he is african, international and it brings european settler colonialism to a much larger audience than before but he also deals with apartheid south africa and palestinefr as well as colonialism. it's really an important book. plus who we

the professor from columbia university joins us now.a that in order to show that you're a good person, in order to show that you know that racism exists, what you're supposed to do is treat black people like children. and i know that nobody is thinking that consciously, but the problem is that we've gone from trying to make life better for black people who need help to what i really do think of as a religion, where the guiding tenet is to show that you know racism exists, to make gestures that show you know racism exists, but not to actually be completely concerned with helping black people in the real world who need help. what it means is that often you can show that you know racism exists while actually hurting black people by, to take one of many examples, to show that you know racism exists, means that you exempt black people from serious competition in terms of testing, in terms of evaluation, in terms of moral judgment, out of a sense that you understand that black people had a bad past and that, therefore, you have to change the

columbia university estimates that the first child tax credit payment the summer lifted 6 million children out of poverty. the very first payment under the child tax credit lifted 6 million kids out of poverty in the country. it may not seem like a lot of money to a lot of people. how much money go see each family. but it makes a huge difference in the lives of children and their families. so we are fighting to make the expanded child tax credit permanently available to kids in families with the lowest incomes. my? question is, professor, schanzenbach what difference would it make if we made the child tax credit permanent now? what kind of broader economic effects would we expect to see? what difference would it make in the life of a kid? and wha>> in a short term, likee said, we will see less hardship. low rates of hunger, poverty, etc. where i think this is crucially important is, we know from research that these investments that reduce child poverty have long term impacts. i agree with doug holtz-eakin, who said essentially that any theory of long term growth has to involve education. f