A US-China War of Words; Outdoor Dining's Future; The History of SNAP Benefits; Women's Work: STEM
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 9, 2023
Coming up on today's show:
- Susan Shirk, research professor and chair of the 21st Century China Center at UC San Diego and the author of Overreach: How China Derailed its Peaceful Rise (Oxford University Press, 2022), shares her analysis of what some are calling a new cold war between the US and China, as officials in both countries trade barbs.
- Elizabeth Kim, reporter who covers mayoral power for the People and Power team at Gothamist and WNYC, talks about plans in the City Council for making the street dining sheds a permanent program.
- This month, the size of millions of Americans' SNAP benefits will be shrinking as the federal government winds down its pandemic-era food assistance. Janet Poppendieck, professor emerita of sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York, a co-founder of the New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College and a senior fellow at the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute at the CUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy, discusses the history of SNAP, benefits that used to be known as "food stamps," which first began back in the 1930s.
- As part of Women's History Month, we're sharing stories of the women who moved into traditionally-male professions. Today, Kate Zernike, New York Times reporter and the author of The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science (Scribner, 2023), tells the stories of the 16 women who made MIT admit it had discriminated against women faculty, as callers share their own stories of breaking into STEM fields.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
