Coming up on today’s show:
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On Thursday, the Biden administration announced plans for a new income-driven repayment plan called the Saving on a Valuable Education — or SAVE. Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, national higher education reporter at the Washington Post, explains what’s in the plan and what legal and political challenges it may face.”
Tracy Brown, president of Riverkeeper, argues that the Army Corps of Engineers’ massive flood protection plan for the New York/New Jersey harbor is flawed and needs revision before being submitted to Congress, scheduled for this summer.
John Mooney, founding editor of NJ Spotlight News, talks about the launch of a cross-newsroom collaboration examining the lack of racial and economic diversity in New Jersey’s public schools, despite the diversity in the population as a whole. And Javier Robles, Rutgers professor in the Kinesiology and Health department and president of the Latino Action Network of New Jersey (LAN), discusses the soon-to-be-decided lawsuit brought by LAN and NAACP and others in 2018 over the lack of diversity in New Jersey’s schools.
The rain bringing floods to upstate New York on Sunday evening have been described as a ‘1000 year storm.’ Jon Campbell, Albany reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, shares his reporting as listeners share their experience of the storm and its aftereffects.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
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