Comparing Biden and Trump on Climate Change; What's Next for the Museum of Chinese in America?; Women Seeking Economic Equality; Millennial "Micro-Generation"

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 12, 2024

Coming up on today's show:

  • Scott Waldman, White House reporter focused on climate change at Politico's E&E News, compares President Biden's record on climate with former President Trump's, and shares what Trump says he will do, if he is elected, regarding energy and climate change.
  • Michael Lee, incoming president of the Museum of Chinese in America, discusses the future of the museum, recently an unlikely site of protests over the city's borough-based jail program.
  • On Equal Pay Day, Josie Cox, business journalist and the author of Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality (Harry N. Abram, 2024), shares the story of women who contributed to the fight for financial equality.
  • Jeanna Smialek, reporter covering the Federal Reserve and the economy for The New York Times and the author of Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis (Knopf, 2023), reports on a "massive microgeneration" of people born in 1990 and 1991, arguing they have been in a in lifelong competition for America’s economic resources.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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