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Potential improvements to the healthcarere law. This is two hours. Thank you for joining us today. We are holding a this hearing virtually. Before we turn to todays topic they help you navigate the virtual narrative and first consistent with regulations, the committee would keep microphones muted. Members are responsible when they seek recognition or when recognized. Second members must have their cameras on at all times. If you need to step away from the proceedings, please leave camera on rather than loggingat out. Third, we will dispense with our practice of observing and instead go in orde...

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Authors. And then to be simply made of the intensity of an audience in a Community Like ours with the killing of george floyd it is challenging and introspective and quiet and devastating i was always aware my value is determined by my skin color first and foremost. A poet and essayist a professor of poetry at yale and we find her in her home in connecticut. I really miss talking to you in front of a Live Audience im glad we can make this work but i have to say i will miss that. So thank you and welcome. Thank you for having me. Before the pandemic that you would imagine you would be traveling...

Not go up at all statistically you know 0 no interest level you actually needed the incremental 8 years of experience to overcome this this. Bias associated with that figure in and of itself is amazing for our International Audience which may not be very familiar with the at particular areas of you know in the United States what have white sounding and whatever black sounding names its so you know black sounding names might be Something Like a tyrone you know rashida which is actually more arabic right than than anything else it might be. Right these these kinds of names whereas you know like ...

And what they found was if you have you know. A black you know white sounding name you know your callbacks would be 50 percent higher right on the other thing that they found was you know if you were at a white sounding name as the strength and quality of their resume increased right because we want to talk to the stronger candidates because back when it by 30 percent makes total sense right but if you had a black sounding name as the strength and quality resume went up the callbacks did not go up at all statistically you know 0 no interest level you actually needed the incremental 8 years of ...