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Get in person. >> public transit access has been cut in a lot of cities. there are other barriers to returning to work despite people may still be concerned about getting sick at work or being mistreated by having to fight with customers over mask wearing or what have you. some of those will abate has more get vaccinated and it becomes safer to return to work as requirements for wearing masks and other social distancing precautions get eliminated. even so, there are a lot of factors here in addi...

Is very important. one of the reasons, one of the barriers between people in the job market. the virus is not vanquished from the land. the efforts of the team here have been tremendously important kicking up that vacs rate. that is one issue where the rescue plans finger prints are on the strong labor market results. >> neil: you mentioned the covid and the vaccination progress. its proven to be a key negotiating feature in the discussion for infrastructure. the president is open to use $70 bil...

And republicans and so on. do these measures specifically target democratic voters or predominantly democratic voting areas, et cetera? >> the interesting thing is weve seen the ability to vote absentee be embraced by voters on both sides of the aisle. and so what may happen ultimately is that the voters who are impacted by this are voters on both sides of the aisle. again, well certainly see more challenging issues in urban communities like detroit and flint that have also had historical barrie...

Over 100,000 hard hit restaurants stay open or reopen. most children are families and ill be getting a tax cut which will be going and deposited into their accounts directly to the bank accounts every month. we know that access to chuld care is one of the biggest barriers in the wau of parents going back to work. our administration is delivering $39 billion to help chuildcare providers get back on their feet. and this month our economy added nearly 20,000 more childcare jobs that were not there ...

Barriers to vaccination. child care, paid time off. taking away barriers, adding incentive, and going to where people are. having a conversation with them, involving community leaders and trusted institutions. i think that is what will potentially get us to the other side of the finish line. >> i thought about our last conversation about india, when i heard the cdc director say were working to export 80 million vaccine doses by the end of june. comparing it to putting your own mask on before hel...

Almost impossible to create a federal law that obviates this. its not entirely impossible. congress does have quite a substantial authority to regulate the time, matter and place of federal elections but not state elections. and you could presumably build in all kinds of safeguards to prevent these laws from overturning election results. but if the courts dont intervene and say that this has gone too far, given the ways in which you can intimidate election officials, the ways in which you could ...

Nahid bhadelia, an infectious disease physician, medical director of the special pathogens unit of the boston university school of medicine. doctor, in your view, thank you very much for joining us again, by the way. do incentives work. and do they work at this stage of the game where were trying to get seven, north of 17 million stragglers over the line to join the herd? >> i think they work for a segment of the population. but i what i liked about the ground game that was presented by presiden...

However, the fact voting rights are being threatened, many democrats are pushing the white house to put everything else aside and just focus on voting rights, while all of this is going on, you have 14 states who already passed new very restrictive laws in the last five months alone. >> certainly, were in a serious and dangerous time of voter suppression. we had 14 states already enact more than 14 pieces of legislation that would make it harder for people to vote. we are seeing tactics that are...

>> reporter: and, geoff, from a policy perspective, this is really a move towards racial equity, removing the financial barriers for mostly black and brown students to get into higher education. you can really think about this like the on-ramp. if you remove those financial barriers, youre getting more people onto the highway of higher ed. once theyre there, the students i talked to at springfield community technical college are are an example of the routes you can take. you saw chris garaging f...

High heat days will become less and we dont have to spend the billions of dollars to address the health and economic impacts. a clean energy standard, a cap on greenhouse gas emissions, more support for clean energy is the energy is the first and foremost thing. then we know were going to have more extreme heat regardless. so in the infrastructure invest emergency we need to take high heat into account. >> jane gilbert, fascinaing discussion. excited to see what you do down there in miami. appre...