i'm veronique. here's this week's top story. many of us, getting a mosquito bite means endless itching and a red bump that takes forever to go away. but there are places in this world where mosquito bites are. they can be killers. emily reports on an american teen who's come up with an lled the united republic of tanzania, tanzania is located on the east coast of africa. famous for its immense and open is home to elephants, lions, and rhinos, but it's also home to a tiny and deadly insect,. actually, it's not the mosquito that kills, but the disease the mosquito carries -- malaria.,000 people in tanzania die each year from malaria. that's equal to losing everyliving in the city of baltimore, maryland. to high school student thomas forman, this was unacceptable. captain of his new jerseyked with his parents and teammates to kick off a unique fundraiser. they call it tackles4tanzania. hi, thomas. kids news." >> so, what inspired you to take on fighting malaria in tanzania?s a funny story. i was on a plane ride home from china, and

with "flag facts," i'm veronique. >> there's lots more ahead on away. >> here's eden with another report in our babysitting tips series.obs are paying jobs. we're often drafted by our parents to sit for our younger whether you consider that aes down to how you approach the task. dr. connie hebert is the author of "the teachable minute." welcome, dr. connie.r having me. >> so, how do we make sitting for a sibling fun for both of us? >> well, you want to rememberr younger brothers and sisters, want to be with you. they don't want to see you on your phone or in front of the computer or the tv all the time.hings with you. so, remember to catch some teachable minutes with them, and then they'll be more fun and you'll have more fun. >> so, give me an example ofinute to make it more fun. >> all right, so let's say that you want to play a math game with your younger brother or sister.ng what's 2 times 4, and then they give you the answer, or you can do pluses or minus. doesn't matter.2 times 4. they give you the answer, and then you add minus 5, and they plus 10, and they give you the answer.aus

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with "flag facts," i'm veronique. >> there's lots more ahead on we'll be right back. >> here's eden with another report in our babysitting tips series. >> not all babysitting jobs are paying jobs. we're often drafted by our parents to sit for our younger brothers or sisters. whether you consider that a pleasure or a pain comes down to how you approach the task. dr. connie hebert is the author of "the teachable minute." >> hi. thanks for having me. >> so, how do we make sitting for a sibling fun for both of us? >> well, you want to remember that younger kids, your younger brothers and sisters, want to be with you. they don't want to see you on your phone or in front of the computer or the tv all the time. they want to do some things with you. so, remember to catch some teachable minutes with them, and then they'll be more fun and you'll have more fun. >> so, give me an example of catching a teachable minute to make it more fun. >> all right, so let's say that you want to play a math game with your younger brother or sister. just start out by asking what's 2 times 4, and then they give you

with we are talking veronique de rugy from george from and lawrence mishel the economic policy institutelet's go back to our phones. on the independent line, we have darren from washington dc. caller: how are you doing? i love c-span. i'm just an average working american. -- gosh.ts are with the economic situation that we are in, you know, people don't realize the economy is totally different than it was 20 years ago. service labor a force now. people keep saying the jobs back. back't want those jobs here anymore. mills or that manufacturing stuff that people used to do. it is low skilled and does not pay as well. advances in technology have made it a lot easier and faster to do s.ese job people just have to go and get trained. the other thing i want to say that the biggest problem with congress is the money. obama touched on that with his state of the union. some of the republicans dust on it too. the -- touched on it too. out here in the workplace, when we have problems we have to fix it. host: let's give our guests a chance to unpack oath of those. -- both of those. talk about a chang

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we will speak to lawrence michelle and veronique david j. men -- aorter all reporter on flint, michigan water supply. washington journal begins live with your phone calls, tweets, and facebook comments at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this weekend, sees cities tour explores the history of hartford, connecticut. tv,ookkeeping -- book learn about the atlantic slave trade through the log books of atlantic slave ships. they significance these books had been telling new england's role in the slave trade. >> through these logbooks we have extraordinary opportunity to see day by day how life was lived aboard new england slave ships. two of which were from connecticut.i came to the realization that these logbooks were not maintained, as i have earlier thought, by the son of an obscure connecticut farmer, but by the son of a an aristocrat from new london. >> the impact on the abolitionist movement by the music of the popular 19th-century singing group the huntington family thinkers. --huntington family singers. >> seeing friendly douglas --ed

as veronique mentioned, the unemployment rate, which is the share of the work force, employed has stillot recovered. it's about halfway back to where it was. that just means we are not back at full employment yet and i don't think anyone should say that we are. it means the federal reserve board should not be raising interest rates until we get the full employment. that's my view. you can imagine we should even be doing things to stimulate job growth. and wages are a very long-term problem. wages have not grown -- inflation for white-collar workers, blue-collar workers or college grands since 2002. during george w. bush or during the recession. it's not something that obama created, generated or something he's been able to fix yet. and why that is -- that's why we have the biggest corporate profits ever. i think it's because we have a wage setting system that's been broken. actually, it's been revised to help the employers relative to the employees for many decades. and we have to fix that. and that's why, you know, people are not feeling like they're getting ahead. the quality of jobs

then, a discussion about obama's economic record with lawrence veronique de rugy. pollution in michigan's water supply and aging u.s. infrastructure. "washington journal" begins live with your calls, tweets, and facebook comments at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this weekend, this c-span city store, hosted by our comcast cable partners, explores the history and literary cultures of hartford come connecticut. on book tv, and thorough discusses "the log books." learn about the atlantic slave trade through the log books of slave trade ships and how they told the story of new england in the slave trade. >> in these logbooks, we have this extraordinary opportunity to see, day by day, how life was lived aboard new england slave ships, two of which were from connecticut. i came to the realization that these logbooks were not maintained, as i had earlier thought, from the son of an obscure connecticut farmer, but by the son of an aristocrat from new london. >> she talks about the impact on the abolitionist movement by the music of the popular 19th-century singing group t