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Sexually transmitted disease cases rose in the second year of the pandemic, including a startling 49% jump in syphilis cases among women, according to preliminary data from the CDC.

Policy and its effects, particularly the effect of what planned parenthood has decided today will likely be heterogeneous and different all over the country, but did i basically correctly sum up the overall problem here? >> no, you nailed it. i mean, essentially what happened today is that trump forced us out of title x, which is a program and your listeners know that helps americans gain access to affordable birth control, std treatment, cancer screenings. by imposing this unethical gag rule on...

Very important services that planned parent hood provides across our country. >> how significant is this that hillary clinton has come out and said this? >> i think it is extremely significant that a democratic presidential candidate was willing to come forward and defend planned parent hood. especially considering the inflammatory nature of the videos. i think democrats have been a little bit hesitant to say anything about the videos, mainly because theres been a congressional investigation lau...

Of the big gap between the divide between the rich and the poor is really being sort of seeing higher education too. you take the elite private institutions, the families who have the money to give the kind of endowment were talking about is still happening. so there are some of those at that level i would call very much elite. its just in a way where they are going to be able to survive the next storm coming for higher education. i think the state institutions and many, many small colleges who ...

Impressed how thoughtful you are about this whole process. youre clearly on top of it, clearly thinking strategically about what to do. thoughtful about making the choices. thats one of those things that first students do need to do. second, is that we talked a little bit about this notion that how do you actually stay connected to people and one of the things i like to talk about, every student has a set of adult fans, people who think they rock, people written their recommendations, coached th...

Were all in in me state. whereas, millenials are just trying to think about how are they going to get a job. how are they going to pay off their student loans. not thinking about will i have retirement, will there be social security. were all stuck in in me state thinking about the near future not focused on the long-term. >> thats interesting. theres a way in which if we look at public policy, it tracks the baby boomers. because they have been so big and dominating, whatever they want is what o...

Fast food industry, low wage workers are women. their median age is 32 years old. these are people trying to support their families. its very simple. they need to be paid for what theyre doing. >> why did you make the decision to strike? you said to me, i feel i was taken advantage of. were you nervous if you went out on strike, you could lose your job? >> a lot of the whole speculation has brought other fast food workers, no, i need my job. its not what i want but i need it, and you know, there...

>> when you made that decision and where you are now, would you make your decisions any differently in terms of making sort of taking out the debt or do you feel like nope, this was still fundamentally worth it? >> it was absolutely worth it. i decided to come to a private school out of state. im originally from south carolina. i wanted to go where there was a lot of professional development opportunities for me, within school, out of school, a lot of networking. i did every possible thing you c...

Morehouse college in atlanta, georgia. we will bring that to you live later in the show. the president isnt the only one giving graduation speeches this year. first lady michelle obama has spent a couple of days giving rousing commencement addresses. on friday, there was this speech at historically black college bowie state in maryland. >> as the abolitionist frederick douglass put it, education means emancipation he said. he said it means light and liberty. it means the uplifting of the soul of...

I might do african-american studies but also political science for economics because that will get me a job. >> international finance and modern dance. >> so i think it is about fundamentally a decision about education and whats the role of college in the 21st century. is it about developing ourselves and capacity to be able to make a contribution in the world or careerist and professional and you get specific skills so that you can get a job. not a career. a job. because theres a difference bet...