Beauty in pretty similar ways and thats leaps into all facets of a persons life from the way kid is treated in school to hes or her success in the labor or marriage markets is pretty clear that beauty is an advantage but is it really an unfair or superficial one well to discuss that im now joined by danielle hamermesh emeritus professor of economics at the university of texas and author of beauty pace why attractive people are more successful professor and so good to have you on the show thank you very much for your time thank you for having me now its been almost a decade since you published these groundbreaking book and theres been quite a lot of changes in this past decade beauty pageants are not as popular as they used to be. Some voters in some western countries are no longer discriminating against ugly man running for president of prime. Mr so i wonder if people as of sassed about the looks as they used to be when they you were writing your book thats very hard to say been very l
Theyll raise that question what if. We get every kid to follow 3 simple rules graduate from High School Get a job and continue work and dont have children tell youre 21 and right now we walked out at the entire country and we classified people according to whether they broke all those rules or they followed one or 2 or all 3 of the rules the results are astounding. So i started talking to judges and lawyers and doctors and Health Providers and interviewing people and literally asked thousands of people how many of you had the course istria part of the United States and. We are segregated in america by social class if you just think about it would a middle class people hang out with. Most middle class people dont know someone in poverty by 1st name foot in down to dinner together. Today millions of American Families are caught in circumstances beyond their control. Their children will be compelled to live lives of poverty unless the cycle is broken. President johnsons war on poverty has
Now i know ive been in a location where someone has tested positive. Reporter this safeway employee said the managers failed to tell the staff in a timely manner and only confirmed the covid19 case after being confronted by a group of employees who heard it from the infected person. Reporter did the manager say anything about not telling other employees or keeping it quiet . Im not supposed to tell. Reporter the manager said that. Yes. Reporter she said many have still not heard about it from managers. They have to rely on the rumor mill to make important decisions. Reporter i reached the store manager by phone but she hung up on me and safeway spokesperson wendy did not agree to an oncamera interview but emailed, we have confirm that employees have tested positive and we are not aware of any manager telling employees to keep quiet. They are on paid quarantine leave adding, throughout this pandemic, the health and safety of everyone who walks through our doors has been our top priority
Throughout the course istria part of the United States and. We are segregated in america by social class but heres think about it who the middle class people hang out with. Most middle class people dont know someone in poverty by 1st name and fit in down to dinner together. Today millions of American Families are caught in circumstances beyond their control. Their children will be compelled to live lives of poverty unless the cycle is broken. President johnsons war on poverty has this one goal to provide everyone a chance to grow and make his own way and. I think everything in life thats important really lives in the grey like theres no black and white theres this gray how do we make it more clear of what the problem is there are so many different Life Experiences of poverty and we dont have a real clear definition of the federal government doesnt it. They say if your family is more needed right about. To take care of your family for a year in 2000 does that mean that if youre making m
Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin