domestic workers in the united states. it is the e 501(c)4 ararm of the national domestic workers alliance. we continue to look at how president trump's reckless actions have threatened the health of f domestic staff at te white house, we are joined by charles allen. his father eugene allen worked as a butler at the wcrte house serving eight presidents from harry truman to ronald reagan. eugene allen died in 2010 but his life story became the basis of lee daniels' film "the butler." >> we have no tolerce of politicst the whe house. >> i'm the new butler. you hr nothing. you e e nothg. henlnly seed.. you know he got that job himself. thwhwhite use e caed him. >> they swore him to some kind of secret code. and so proud of you. >> what do your dadaddy do? >> is a butler. >> everything you are and everything you have. the trailer of "the butler" based on the life story of eugene allen. that was oprah winfrey and forest whitataker playing eugene allenn and his wife. their son charlrles allen joinss now. we welcome you to democracy y n! it i is great toto have you wit, charles.s. >> thank y y for

jobs i'm going to start by paying you a little clip from plane at pollini is from the national domestic workers alliance this is what she told us a little bit earlier and take a look. domestic workers are house cleaners nannies and turkey verse by definition the work is done from other people's homes so they don't have the option to work from home this means a pandemic is have a unique impact on this workforce we just released a report on the impact of covert underclass tech workers over the past 6 months which shows that adults worst 7 out of 10 domestic workers at no jobs at all more than half of respondents for 6 consecutive months told us they were unable to pay their rent almost all domestic workers in the us are women and money percent of those we surveyed are also the mothers have been told when the pandemic has been devastating for these women who are already working precarious jobs and yet they are the essential workers that we depend on nicole can you just pick up from where paulina left off about where are the hardest hit jobs as far as women are concerned so thank you so much i'm so glad to

i am a worker leader for the national domestic workers alliance. i live in texas or have been a home care worker for almost 40 years. before the pandemic started i was working over 110 hours like mr. sanders said a week. also, now that the pandemic hit us, i am working 80 hours a week. i love taking care of people. i have to work two jobs to make ends meet. but that is not the same for all of my peers. they do not have the benefit of working the way i work. i currently make $15 per hour and this is not the standard, but many of my friends and peers do not get that pay the same rate and unfortunately, many of them have lost their jobs because of the pandemic. but i know they deserve more pay. the financial and emotional toll the pandemic is weighing on me very heavily and my wife is immunocompromised and i'm the only one who can go out to work. as a care worker, i am an essential worker and i have always been an essential worker. all domestic workers have been essential and they will be. we are essential people. even before the pandemic we were essen

emmy-award-winning actress and activist, america ferrera, joined with the political director of the national domestic workers allianceof a platform to help empower, encourage, and inform latinas to vote. i spoke to them earlier this week about that effort. >> america and jess, thanks so much for joining us. america, what is the opportunity here with latinas? >> well, in 2020, there are 32 million eligible latino-american voters. and we know that latinas specifically are the path to victory. in terms of getting to 270 electoral votes, that path runs right through states that -- states like florida, arizona, north carolina, michigan, and wisconsin. all, states with populations of latinas that can be the margin of victory or the margin of defeat in those elections. so, latinas can be the deciders in 2020. >> jess, you look at the polling and latinas are some of the voters who are most fired up about donald trump. what is informing their feelings on the president? >> one is more than any other election, maybe ever in our lifetimes, latino voters actually have something to vote for. they have something to vote, for our co

cofounder of the black lives matter global network and director for the national domestic workers alliance new book is just out called "the purpose of power: how we come together when we fall apart." would like toi begin on your book. could you talk about you title? explain to our listeners and our audience what you mean to say in the book. >> this book really does a few things. it is about how we build the kinds of movements that last, the kinds of movements that are able to win the changes that we seek come and how it is that we transform the way that our lives are organized. and how we come together when we fall apart is a pithy way of talking about movement building. one of the things that i like to remind people is that movements are not just about protests. movements are absolutely about how we get more power into the hands of more people. offering int i'm this book is a reflection -- not from an outside perspective, but certainly as somebody who has been building movements and has been organizing, campaigning all throughout this country for the last 20 years. i place myself and my e