Budget Deadline Looms; Egypt's Election; Bret Stephens; Lifting Up Paid Care Workers
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 29, 2018
- First, Fordham University law professor Zephyr Teachout, followed by Politico Albany bureau chief Jimmy Vielkind, discuss what's in and what's out of the New York State budget as the final week of negotiations winds down.
- Bret Stephens, New York Times Op-Ed Columnist, talks about his call to repeal the second amendment which has drawn criticism from his fellow conservatives, plus more news of the day. Â
- Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian writer and activist and the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), and Bassem Youssef, host of The Democracy Handbook, a digital series with Fusion TV, and the author of Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring (Dey Street Books, 2017), offer their respective takes on Egypt's presidential election.
- Liz Vladeck, NYC Deputy Commissioner of the Office of Labor Policy & Standards, talks about the new report "Lifting up Paid Care Work: Year One of New York City’s Paid Care Division " and the issues facing paid care workers and their employers.
