As Kamala Harris inked history on Wednesday by becoming the first woman, first Black and first South Asian American to become the vice-president of the United States, her ancestral village in Tamil Nadu celebrated loud cheers, laps and firecrackers as she took oath.
Gig Workers Are Employees. Start Treating Them That Way.
The Biden administration has an opportunity to restore basic labor protections to the people who deliver our groceries and drive for Uber and Lyft.
By Veena Dubal and Juliet B. Schor
Dr. Dubal is a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Dr. Schor is a sociology professor at Boston College.
Jan. 18, 2021
Credit.Ariel Davis
One of the nation’s largest grocery chains, Albertsons, announced this month that it would replace many of its staff delivery drivers with independent contractors working for the delivery service DoorDash. Those contractors will not receive important labor protections that have been provided to the full-time employees they will be replacing.
Vice President-Elect
Kamala Harris and her husband
Douglas Emhoff sat down with CBS News’ Jane Pauley Tuesday in Washington, D.C., for their first joint television interview since the election. Pauley’s extended interview with Harris and Emhoff for CBS SUNDAY MORNING was broadcast today
Sunday, Jan. 17 on the CBS Television Network.
A rush transcript of the report is below:
VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT KAMALA HARRIS: I was raised to not hear “no.” Let me be clear about it. So it wasn’t like, “Oh, the possibilities are immense. Whatever you want to do, you can do.” No, I was raised to understand many people will tell you “It is impossible,” but don’t listen. I mentor a lotta people, and I tell them that there will be people who will say, “It’s not your turn, it’s not your time. No one like you has done it.” And I’ll tell them, “And don’t you listen.” And then I will go on to tell them, “I eat no for breakfast.” (LAUGH)
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On Monday, the Electoral College confirmed Joe Biden as the nation’s next president and Kamala Harris as the next vice president. Here is what you should know about the person who will be the first woman, first African American, and first Asian American vice president in the history of the United States.
1. Kamala Harris was born in 1964 in Oakland, California. Both of her parents were immigrants who came to the United States to pursue a PhD. Her late mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was from India and worked as a biomedical researcher on breast cancer. Her father, Donald J. Harris, is originally from Jamaica and taught economics at Stanford University. Her parents divorced when she was 7. In 2014, Harris married Doug Emhoff, a corporate lawyer in Los Angeles, and became a stepmother to Ella and Cole Emhoff.