guest: the ford foundation is a large social justice philanthropy. its mission is to tackle inequality in all of its forms. the future of workers program is aimed at looking at how we can ensure and support advocates on the front lines and business leaders eager to use their position to drive change. to reimagine work that empowers workers and compels players to take appropriate responsibility for worker conditions and living standards and urge lawmakers to enact effective policies to fill any gaps. host: i suppose you have been looking at the impacts of the pandemic, particularly on workers. what have you seen over the last year and a half? what's the impression that your organization is getting about where workers are? guest: let me say, first of all, it's clear to us that the pandemic has revealed really important issues for working people. everything from the importance and need for a care infrastructure in our country and the need to address wages and better working conditions and the quality of jobs of it -- available for workers, to really add

host: the organization is the ford foundation.hank you so much for your time toda >> today marks the six-month anniversary of the jenny attack on the west capital. more than 140 u.s. capitol police officers were injured and two people died during be pushed by demonstrators as they marched on the capital to stop the electoral college count of the 2020 presidential election. c-span marks the anniversary by showing the senate hearing on what happened that day and why, tonight at 8:00 eastern. >> next, chinese president xi jinping delivers remarks on the hundred anniversary of the chinese communist party. he talks about the strength of the chinese people, resilience of the military and warned against foreign interference, telling a crowd of thousands that chinese will not be bullied by foreign forces. he also is the secretary general of the committee. >> general secretary of the commonest party, chinese president -- communist

guest: the ford foundation is a large social justice philanthropy. mission is to tackle inequality in all of its forms. the future of workers program is aimed at looking at how we can ensure and support advocates on the frontline and business leaders eager to use the position -- their position to drive change. to reimagine work that empowers workers and compels players to take appropriate responsibility for worker

host: this is sarita gupta of the ford foundation. from corpus christi, texas, your next step. caller: we have to regulate the cost of basic necessities like housing, groceries, utilities, gasoline, basic necessities that are necessary for survival. we don't regulate the cost of basic necessities it doesn't matter how high you raise the minimum wage. the corporate interest will immediately wipe it out by raising costs for products and services. we have to regulate the cost of necessities in our society. that is something i never hear being discussed on any news program. i know the republicans will have a conniption fit and say it's communism and socialism and the bogeyman government controlling everything. but that's what you have to do in a civilized society so people don't wander the street homeless and so that our poverty rate does not increase year after year after year. we have to regulate the costs of basics. thank you. host: that's john, thank you. go ahead. guest: as of 2018, a minimum wage worker would have to work 122 hours

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major support is provided by the ford foundation: working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.g. additional support is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in jonalism... the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. park foundation,edicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. and additional support from koo and patricia yuen. >> good morning-- u.s. and nato troops begin pulling out of afghanistan. >> news that all u.s. and nato troops will soon leave their countr many afghans are feeling anxious about their future. >> narrator: journalist najibullah quraishi is heading into afghanistan as the u.s. military is leaving. >> it's time to end amera's longest war. it's time for american troops to come home. >> narrator: 20 years after an american-led coalition drove the taliban from power, the group has now regained control o

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when i finished my graduate work, and duke offered me a job as a researcher with a ford foundation funded program, we had planned to go back to georgia. and they offered me more money than i ever dreamed. and we accepted the job, and came along with that job was a possibility of living in deep forest, which at that time was a very prestigious development around a duke university. but for some reason we decided we wanted to stay in chapel hill. >> how would you describe chapel hill at that time? >> chapel hill was a schizophrenic community. it was schizophrenic because it had this liberal image. that's what sucked us in. and there were... there was a strong progressive liberal community in chapel hill that really we're trying to break down the racial barriers, but then if one looked closer it was also one of the most discriminatory communities in the area because there was no middle class. all the blacks lived in the western section of chapel hill, and they would... there are the ones who did most of the menial work in chapel hill because the job inventory was not very broad. and most of t

ford foundation. the gerald r. ford foundation. because i really think it is safe to say without their support, this project probably would not have gotten off the ground. i should also point out it is great to be back here in grand rapids. this is my second time here. i was here doing what i was doing for research in 2014 and had a chance to come to grand rapids. and i really love this city. it is such a vibrant city. it is great to be here in downtown at the museum is a wonderful addition to this downtown area. and i encourage people who have not been to grand rapids to come here. because furniture city is really quite wonderful. this talk, itself, i think is timely. if gerald ford was alive today, i think he would be having a case of deja vu. let's just look at some of the facts. the incumbent president is under investigation by a special counsel. there are questions whether the president was involved in a conspiracy. there are questions whether the president obstructed justice. john dean seems to

kaufman was awarded a ford presidential foundation research travel gap. much of the research for this book that he wrote came from the archives. and manuscript collections of the ford library and ann arbor and he is grateful also for the assistance from president ford's son steve. he is the author coauthor and editor of 11 books on us foreign and foreign policy and diplomacy and history of the presidency and first ladies a few of his publications include project plowshare the peaceful use of nuclear explosives in the cold war america the presidency of james earl carter jr. and rosalind carter equal partner in the white house. among many others. kaufman is currently writing a monograph on the environment and international dipulacy due to be released in december of 2018. kaufman is currently scott cough is a featured expert on the subjects of the carter administration cold war us foreign policy the ford administration nuclear testing and the office of the first lady. with regard to scott kaufman's new book ambition pragmatism and party smu senator for presid

the ford foundation: working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. fordfoundation.org. additional support is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in journalism. the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. support for "growing up poor in america" is provided by wnet's chasing the dream initiative on poverty and opportunity in america, with funding by the jpb foundation. ♪ ♪ >> now, the governor of ohio ordered all schools in the state to close for three weeks. >> governor ordering schools k through 12 to go on an extended spring break. >> we have to do everything that we can to slow down, uh, the spread, uh, of, of this virus. >> now that he's made that decision, what exactly is this three-week break gonna look like? well, that really depends on where your kid goes to school. >> my name is shawn, i'm 13 and i live in the plains, ohio. coronavirus scares me. i know it's really dangerous. potentially deadly, p

major support is provided by the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. additional support is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellencin journalism, the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world, park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues, and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional support from the william b. wiener, jr. foundation. support for this program is provided by the wnet group's chasing the dream, a public media initiative reporting on poverty, justice, and economic opportunity in america, with major funding by the jbp foundation, and additional funding from the peter g. peterson and joan ganz cooney fund. ♪ ♪ (overlapping news reports) >> right now, breaking news here, stocks all around the world are tanking. >> jacoby: if you want to understand howoday's financial world has grown so far removed from the real world-- and the role of the federal reserve-

this is a pattern that you see across the community whether it is the tie foundation, ford foundationhese organizations have their own university now. they've global networks, they've domestic networks, they have proliferating their own ideology all across the world. the new multiply out to all of these affinity groups where they take every disaffected person and they create some kind of organization around them. inside school they are teaching children how to join a mass movement. michael brown and ferguson, torchlight in minneapolis. this is happening all over the world. this is a dark organization that masquerades as justice. they are backed by very powerful people and they are extremely well-funded. that is the real question that we need to get to. who is driving this? why are they driving it? what is there and state? these people do not want a marxist world in the end. they just want power. they want power and control. they are using all of us. >> emily: the press whiteouts secretary, we will show an interview of herbert steve doocy. >> do you think that people are leaving cuba b

impact of this knight foundation money what supposedly is also attracting other foundations, the ford foundation university, what the impact is going to be at decision of these major foundations to in essence provide an alternative to what unc was solely in greeting to in terms of tenure here? >> this is not the first time we have seen this. unc lost a major grant after the bacle over the silent sam confederate monument on its campus and how it handled that. it continues to come in conflict with major donors d to se donors and money from individuals who donate to the school to which, honestly, some of the folks running the school and running the university say, ok, fine, we're doing what we believe we want to do at we will continue to find the money to do that. you're not interested in changing direction bause these people who fund our work don't like our management. amy: students toppled the confederate statue in 2018. now the unc press is in the crosshairs of the board of governors who is refusing to reappoint professor eric mueller who criticized the handling of the silent sam statue. we have

departments around the country, around the world, that the kennedy school of government, the ford foundation gave the innovations in government award. foundation gives and innovations in government award in a 1996 r. department one for program the innovations the most innovative system that had been developed that time. jack and his team were still around to receive it and even now anybody in new york city -- there are computer systems and of the rhythms and artificial intelligence. we are very proud of it. make and you should be proud of it. you will forever be associated with com stat and there aren't many police that have had that kind of employment. >> guest: you know the satisfaction that you are i are contemporaries have is a lot of credit goes to us individually but as you know we might have an idea but in the case of com stat we had this huge orchestra behind me and together those individual instruments created a symphony. and isn't that the wonder of it with everybody working together and it's the pride they all feel. it was the source of the giuliani break up on the fact that didn'

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liz plank and rebeck i can coakley, c disability rights officer for the ford foundation.er that people. 80% of people in the united states with disabilities aren't working. we have a worker shortage. is this an opportunity for us to reimagine our workforce? >> it's an opportunity for us to reimagine our biases around how wero hire. the americans with disabilities act is 31 years old. the individuals with disabilities education act is approaching its 50th birthday. there is a qualified base of people with disabilities looking for employment all the time, but especially now. at the height of the pandemic, the disabled workers unemployment rate reached 18.9% compared with 14% of non-disabled people and even now, that appointment rate of people withno disabilities is twice that of our non-disabled counterparts. >> my friend, liz planck, what do you think? >>, happy disability pride mon. thank you for this report. i think people with disabilities have so much to be celebrating. people without disabilities have some work to do. i think that ableism just makes people it's not ju

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the director of the ford presidential foundation. do you have a list of questions that have come through for us? >> we do. we have a number of questions coming through and i want to thank you for a magisterial presentation. thank you as well for the maps and images from your grandfather. i just got to say as a way to preface this but in west michigan, ralph ellen stein is one of our great heroes we will always honor his memory, his example that he left of a visionary leadership and strenuous service inspires young people coming up but with that preface i actually have three questions and i think both david and brian will be able to address this. the questions are what are the most important qualities of a leader from eisenhower's viewpoint, what we can extend that, ralph's viewpoint as well. what qualities should a leader possess? >> want to go first on that or do you want me to? >> one of the most interesting interviews i've seen is one that you contacted on that very thing and i can remember total leadership capacities which we wer

so in the first gallery, we feature his foundational years. gerald fordw up in grand rapids, mish mirk, but he wasn't born in grand rapids, michigan. he was born in omaha, nebraska. his marry had married a businessman in omaha by the name of leslie lynch king. and so she was dorothy king. they had a child in july of 1913. they named leslie lynch king jr. and he's the person we know as gerald ford. in this case, we have his christening gown and a few other things of interest. but one of the things that we feature in this case is his baby book. a lot of mothers keep books on their children, even today, and dorothy was no exception. back in 1913, she began keeping a book on the baby's experience. we can't present the real thing, but we present a duplicate of it in flip form. some of the things you see here, the first picture of dorothy with the baby. he was born in a host in omaha, nebraska, in his grandfather's house, charles henry king's house. other interesting things in it, she records baby's first outings. the very first entry is his taxicab ride. it oc

i pressed on to the hill, leemis passed it, lead to a little ford, with earthworks and the palisade face. the foundations have been reconstructed to show the ruins. can you imagine how it used to look here? well, i can, in any case, many reconstructions have been made and not only along the limits. there are traces of the romans in many places in germany, for example, in sar land. a whole villa was reconstructed there and turned into an archaeological open air museum. well, take a look at that. ah, ah, this is how the privileged romans of the provinces once lived in the country, dinners with well manicured gardens, those a floors, and all the amenities the ancient world had to offer. the best place to get an impression is this life. is it a bog, a roman country estate near in style and most of the valley. it was meticulously reconstructed, a top, the original ruins, the only one of its kinds in the worlds. in the 4 years, the head of the house, the dominant, receives his guests characteristic of the coffee ceilings, frescoes and half columns decorating the ruse. at one time, the entire whole most likely