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director of domestic policy studies here and it's my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring tim carney's new book and a discussion about its findings and claims and i think you'll find both tim's remarks and the panel of interest, particularly timely given the moment that we find ourselves in historically right now. so i look forward to the discussion. tim is going to come up and of

tim carney, your thoughts.: just to clarify couple of things, i agree that people need to get outdoors. being home alone is bad, it is mentally upsetting. it is offensive to our freedom. it is bad for your health. that said, if you do have a backyard, no one is stopping you from playing in your backyard. i am in maryland. i am blessed with a backyard and my kids play in it plenty. lots of stays with a stay-at-home order have an exception for exercise which i think is very important where you can go out and walk around. unfortunately many states are closing down the parks and beaches and that would be best for taking a walk spread out from somebody. there was recently an outrage in big-city media that beaches were reopening in florida. when you look at it, you realize a beach is the widest walking trail in america. in new york, they are going on the west side highway where the trail is eight feet wide. that will be more crowded than a beach which is hundreds of feet wide. i agree, people need exercise. some of t

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director of domestic policy studies here and it's my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring tim carney's new book and a discussion about its findings and claims and i think you'll find both tim's remarks and the panel of interest, particularly timely given the moment that we find ourselves in historically right now. so i look forward to the discussion. tim is going to come up and offer a few words and then he will be followed-- we will follow that with a panel discussion with charles murray who is known to probably everybody here, ai's own fa chair and cultural studies here at aei. and megan mccardle, a washington post columnist with a lot to say as well. tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and he's also the commentary editor at the washington examiner where he's been a columnist for while and you're probably all aware of his columns. his previous books on cronyism is probably what many of you know tim for. the big riffoff in obamanomics and that's where tim carved a name for himself in the milieu in space in washington. this is a new enterprise for him, a deep dive into what's going on

the federal response to coronavirus with washington examiner senior commentary writer tim carney andennessee democratic punishment steve: on the impact of the coronavirus in his district and recent relief legislation into congress. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. ♪ >> for the first time in four weeks, the u.s. house meets for legislative work thursday to debate and vote on nearly $500 billion more for coronavirus pandemic response. this fourth round of funding would go to the small business loan program, hospitals, and virus testing. watch live coverage of the house beginning at 10:00 eastern on c-span. >> new jersey governor phil murphy says there needs to be a steady decline in the number of coronavirus cases before the state considers implementing a strategy to reopen the economy. he also announced the signing of legislation that requires hospital

the washington examiner tim carney writes it is time to let people back into church.t the church close every other pew, only allow one family purpura, pastors can bar socializing, hugging and shaking hands and instruct every family or individual to stay six feet from every other family or individual. you have a very large congregation. how do you see this kind of phasing back in for larger places of force ship? >> were not going to have people crammed in the sanctuary any longer, the handshake is gone and i'm not sad to see that go. i think that is gone, the hugging probably is gone. the collection plate, passing that down the island everybody touching it is gone. communion, people are not going to reach out of the same tray but those are minor things. the idea we are back together excites us and that is going to happen sooner rather than later. shannon: do you think those things are permanently gone, the hugging and passing the plate or maybe a few weeks or a few months until we have a vaccine? >> people are going to think differently about getting too close. i think

the federal response to the coronavirus with tim carney. on the coronavirus reliefdistrict and the legislation through congress. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. ♪ as the coronavirus pandemic continues, congress are working from their home districts. are at themy folks automotive industry. the other majority are your front-line workers. i hope people do not forget, these are the folks who help bus our table and have been demanding a $10 minimum wage. it is important to highlight they are the ones keeping us afloat. >> this is a very serious issue. what i've been telling people is listen to the federal authorities, the state authorities and help experts -- health experts stay away from people right now. i see this as a war. the united states is at war with this virus. >> see and judge with the c-span congressional directory. it is all the information you need to connect with your u.s. senator or representative. order your copy online today at c-span store.org. committee met on capitol hill to c

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i am tim carney, a visiting fellow at the american enterprise institute. i'm also the commentor editor at the "washington examiner" and we have great discussion tonight. we brought here chris arnade, the author of "dignity" which came out earlier this

i am tim carney, a visiting fellow at the american enterprise institute. i'm also the commentor editor at the "washington examiner" and we have great discussion tonight. we brought here chris arnade, the author of "dignity" which came out earlier this year. it's an excellent book. i read it. i love it. we will be selling it afterwards. you should buy it. it's beautiful. and i said beautiful because it's also a photo book as well as a great collection of stories that really reveal america. chris is the first guy i've had on stage at a guy who has a phd in physics. then he used a phd in physics to go into finance, then when he had this job in finance, he started going for walks during the day, i'll a bridge destroyed because it's in the book. his walks got longer and longer he ended up at hunts point which if you know your geography is not terribly close to the financial district. at hunts point he was exposed to what he called the backdrop of america. and this is drug addicts, drug dealers, prostitutes. it convinced him he needed to figure out what was goin

bright for those who want to become successful in the united states than a washington examiner's tim carney offers his thoughts on why the american dream is less attainabletoday the later , pulitzer prize winning journalist nicholas kristof and sheryl wu don't report on the issues facing the working class in rural america. an enjoyable tv now and over the weekend on c-span2. >> great to sit down with you and your book, don't be evil is contained plenty on a timely subject given the political times we are in , given the heights that the stocks of apple, amazon, google and facebook and others have reached but you normally have a pretty broad scope to your coverage. why is this book, why now mark. >> at you for having me by the way. i started this book i guess it was in 2017. and i had just taken a job as a columnist for the financial times and my mandate was to figure out are the world's biggest business and economic stories and cover them in opinion form is a rather large mandate and in order for the to narrow the funnel i started looking through wealth figures and i thought i saw an amazing

in the federal response to coronavirus with washington examiner senior commentary writer tim carney andennessee democratic congressman steve cohen how the impacts of the coronavirus in his district and recent relief legislation. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern this morning. >> for the first time in four weeks, the u.s. house meets for legislative work thursday to debate and vote on nearly $500 billion more for coronavirus pandemic response. this fourth round of funding would go to the small business loan program, hospitals and virus testing. watch live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the house beginning at 10:00 eastern on c-span. british foreign secretary dominic rabb took a range of questions on the coronavirus pandemic from members in the house of commons during prime minister's question time. he was standing in for prime minister boris johnson who is recovering at home from the coronavirus. we also hear from new labour party leader who recently replaced jeremy corbyn. it was the first time members were allowed to ask questions online and in person. >> thank you,

pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring timothy carney's new book and a discussion about its claims and i think you will find both tim's remarks and the panel of interest particularly timely given the moment we find ourselves in strictly right now so i look forward to the discussion. tim is going to come out and offer a few words and then he will be followed with a panel discussion withcharles murray who is known to probably everybody here . he's a high chair and cultural studies here at aei and megan mcardle who is probably known to all of you, washington post columnist with a lot to say on this issue as well. tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and he's also the commentary editor at the washington examiner where he's been a columnist for a while and you are all aware of his columns to his previous books on cronyism are what any of you probably know him for. the big ripoff and obamanomics. but this new book alienated america is a new enterprise for him, adeep dive into what's going on in the heartland and i'm holding this book up because you need to buy it . it's easier for me to say that and for tim to say and you s

tim to please come up and give us your thoughts. [applause] >> thank you, ryan and everybody for coming. my name is timothy carney, visiting fellow and also full-time journalist so what i did is try to find out new things and tell the story with my reporting and lots of data and a lot of you noticed in 2015 and 2016 there was a surge in interest on the political press looking at working class places and parts of the rust belt, places where the american dream seemed dead. writing this book i started at the opposite end. in my house have you heard in the confirmation was going but that is part of lesser chevy chase. if you know there is a town of chevy chase and section five, but then there's the elite cobra village, population of 2,000. it's the wealthiest municipality in the wealthiest region and the wealthiest country in the history of the world and it's also got 80% of the population that has college degrees including the majority of men and women and about half the population that have advanced degrees in chevy chase. you would notice if you read charles marie is coming apart. it's not just oil or material way