The Disappointing Jobs Report; Economy & Equity: Kathryn Garcia; Honoring Those Who Died Over Twenty Years in Afghanistan; The Cicadas Are Coming
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 12, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
- April's jobs report was a huge disappointment as many expected hundreds of thousands more jobs to be added than the report showed. Jim Tankersley, New York Times White House correspondent with a focus on economic policy, talks about all the issues at play that might have led to the jobs numbers.
- Kathryn Garcia, 2021 mayoral hopeful and former commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation, talks about her plans for the City's economy, both in recovering from the pandemic losses and in addressing pre-existing inequality.
- As the Biden Administration works on the planned withdrawal from Afghanistan, Paul Rieckhoff, activist and veterans advocate, founder and president of Righteous Media, host of Independent Americans podcast, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and frequent contributor on CNN and MSNBC, and Allison Jaslow, adjunct professor at the Hart Leadership Program at Duke University, Iraq war veteran and former executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) honor the lives lost over 20 years of war, and talk about what the U.S. may be leaving behind.
- Gene Kritsky, dean of the School of Behavioral and Natural Sciences at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati and author of Periodical Cicadas: The Brood X Edition (Ohio Biological Survey, 2021), talks about the coming of trillions of cicadas on a 17-year cycle emerging from underground into parts of the Northeast and Midwest and the science behind their emergence.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
