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Youre welcome to the program the new experiment with genetically modified mosquitoes be the solution to your educating malaria despite some progress that is easily means one of the welds they get skilless currently there are more than 200000000 cases of the mosquito Borne Disease each year and the only half a 1000000 of those lines fact that die most of the children the 6 countries with the highest rates of malaria are well why all in subsaharan africa. Is one of them now. Here i started on the ...

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Not just a hip-hop classic. Not just a late-capitalism critique. It’s … a combination.

Robert Greenstein isn’t a household name. But his influential Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has changed the lives of millions of low income Americans.

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Newsoms $2 billion college savings account plan & Chris Edley on his new role May 14, 2021 Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to spark the postsecondary aspirations of all families by creating $500 college savings accounts for all current low income public school students and future ones as they enter the 1st grade, with extra amounts for foster and homeless children, at a cost of $2 billion. The proposal was a surprise piece of his $20 billion, 5-year “transformational” package for preK-12 schools i...

Unemployment is now 9.5%. 14 million americans out of work. friday, the white house projected the jobless rate will remain above 9% until 2012. americans are feeling the pain, only 22% say the current economic conditions are good, 78% say they are poor. for democrats, the numbers do not add up to a promising november. today, unemployment and a recovery that doesnt feel like one, with business leaders mort zuckerman and steve forbes. >> they have demonized the business world and blamed everythi...

That we have come much more than a long way and im glad we have. >> john mcwhorter, christopher edley, i have to call it a day there but this has been fascinating. thank you both so much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. todays top stories are next. and then despite the weeks rancor over race, a reminder of the power of personal ties.

Pollsters asked if a solution to race relations would eventually be worked out. 50% of african-americans were optimistic, but a year and a half into the obama presidency, just 41% of blacks believe there will be a solution. at the end of a week dominated by the shirley sherrod story, a conversation we had earlier with christopher edley and john mcwhorter on president obama and race in america.

Incident or is it a racial lesson that weve learned? >> i think there are actually three stories here. one is about political mismanagement on the part of the administration and mismanagement in journalism. the second is about race. and the third is about the interaction of the two and what weve seen is that the likelihood of mismanagement goes up if race is involved and the stakes go up as well. its like waving kryptonite in front of superstars in the media or in politics. their knees go wobbly...