The Latest on Medicare Advantage; The Coming 'Century of Fire'; New Minimum Wage for Delivery Workers; Celebrating Juneteenth with Max Roach's Story
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 13, 2023
Coming up on today's show:
- New York City Comptroller Brad Lander talks about steps his office recently took related to NYC retirees switching health plans to Medicare Advantage, plus weighs in on other news including a pay raise for food delivery workers.
- John Vaillant, journalist and author of Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Knopf, 2023), looks at the links between climate change and increasing number of wildfires through the lens of a devastating fire at an oil industry hub in Canada in 2016.
- Claudia Irizarry Aponte, covers labor and work for The City, talks about the new minimum wage for delivery workers and other issues they face, like air quality. She's joined by Ligia Guallpa, director of the Workers Justice Project, which organized Los Deliveristas Unidos in 2020.
- Co-directors Sam Pollard and Ben Shapiro talk about their new documentary "Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes," celebrating the jazz master's life and music, which will be shown on Saturday, June 17th as part of Rooftop Films summer series.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
