Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lets turn our attention to one of the important issues, and it is this. 20 Million Students and their families are in the middle of what has to be the strangest first semester of college in at least a century. Almost everything has changed for students except one thing, students still have to answer 108 questions on the dreaded fafsa form, federal aid application for pell grants and Student Loans to help go to college. For years now ive carried around the fafsa as a prop to make the case for simplifying it, but its no joke, especially this year. Many students are questioning their investment in a College Education at a time when many classes are only offering online courses, many of low income students who would benefit most economically from college long term are putting it off altogether. There was an 8 drop in the number of black undergraduate students enrolled in summer sessions compared with last summers enrollment according t
Their stalled contract negotiations. And it may be working. Heres cbss mark strassmann. Reporter l. A. Is a city counting strikes like a bowling alley. 11,000 city employees, all Union Service workers, are staging a 24hour walkout. Theyre indignant. Contract talks with the city have sputtered. Think of all this as a warning shot, a 24hour reminder of what disruption feels like. Here in l. A. , its the cost of living. Reporter custodian phyllis stringer echos the frustrations of hundreds rallying outside city hall. Double trouble low wages, high inflation. We need some help. Youre working too hard and making too little . Yes, yes. You know, we need a lot more employees to come out to work with the city. Reporter more walkouts. Two hollywood unions have struck the set. Without the more than 75,000 actors and writers, all Studio Production has stopped. Whats scarce here, insight into an end in sight. L. A. s labor actions just the latest in americas summer of strikes. Widespread walkouts
On the impact of Race Technology and the media and how they all and impact the way we look at we look at our schools and education at our communities, at environment. So our talk will focus on that. I will ask a series of questions and then each speaker will after answering the questions youll have an opportunity to ask questions of them. But first, let me begin by introducing our speakers. Begin with with emily rapp of whos here on my left Emily Raboteau. All right, at the intersection, social and Environmental Justice, Climate Change and her most recent work is lessons for survival. Mother against the apocalypse a memoir on race, climate and Environmental Justice. Her previous books are searching for zion the winner of an american book award and a finalist for the Hurston Wright legacy award and the cult novel the professors daughter. She is a contributing editor at orion magazine and, a regular contributor to the new york review books. Apatows essays have appeared and been anthologi
Environment. So our talk will focus on that. I will ask a series of questions and then each speaker will after answering the questions youll have an opportunity to ask questions of them. But first, let me begin by introducing our speakers. Begin with with emily rapp of whos here on my left Emily Raboteau. All right, at the intersection, social and Environmental Justice, Climate Change and her most recent work is lessons for survival. Mother against the apocalypse a memoir on race, climate and Environmental Justice. Her previous books are searching for zion the winner of an american book award and a finalist for the Hurston Wright legacy award and the cult novel the professors daughter. She is a contributing editor at orion magazine and, a regular contributor to the new york review books. Apatows essays have appeared and been anthologized in the new yorker, the New York Times, new york magazine, the nation best American Science writing. Thats American Travel writing. Elsewhere, her dist
Look at our schools and education at our communities, at environment. So our talk will focus on that. I will ask a series of questions and then each speaker will after answering the questions youll have an opportunity to ask questions of them. But first, let me begin by introducing our speakers. Begin with with emily rapp of whos here on my left Emily Raboteau. All right, at the intersection, social and Environmental Justice, Climate Change and her most recent work is lessons for survival. Mother against the apocalypse a memoir on race, climate and Environmental Justice. Her previous books are searching for zion the winner of an american book award and a finalist for the Hurston Wright legacy award and the cult novel the professors daughter. She is a contributing editor at orion magazine and, a regular contributor to the new york review books. Apatows essays have appeared and been anthologized in the new yorker, the New York Times, new york magazine, the nation best American Science wr