Coming up on today’s show:
On National Voter Registration Day, Andrea Hailey, CEO of Vote.org, talks about registering to vote and issues affecting voter access ahead of 2024, and Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the voting rights and elections program at the Brennan Center for Justice, talks about the voting rights nationally and in New York State.
Climate journalist Alleen Brown talks about her Covering Climate Now award-winning work for The Intercept on the effects of climate change and related disasters on prisons and incarcerated people within them.
Food allergies are on the rise, having doubled in children between 2000 and 2018. Andrew Van Dam, who writes the weekly Department of Data column for The Washington Post, and Christopher Michael Warren, assistant professor of preventive medicine and director of population health at Northwestern University’s Center for Food Allergy and Asthma Research (CFAAR), crunch the data to show just how prevalent they are and what’s behind the uptick in kids and adults alike.
At the start of the pandemic, the oldest members of Gen-Z began graduating college and entering the workforce. Fast-forward to today, many have only experienced working from home or in a hybrid manner. Elizabeth Shwe, assistant producer at WNYC’s All Things Considered, shares how Gen-Z has acclimated to the working world while listeners share their own experiences of becoming working adults in a new world or working with Gen-Z team members who never experienced the old way.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
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