On today's show:
- Leslie Scism, a news editor for the Wall Street Journal, discusses how climate change, and the catastrophic damage it's causing to coastal communities, is changing the way home insurance works in Florida.
- Jon Valant, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy and a senior fellow of governance studies at Brookings, talks about education and what's taught in public schools as a wedge issue for voters, from "CRT" and beyond. Plus: Peniel Joseph, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century (Basic Books, 2022), shares his take on how to teach an accurate and inclusive American history in the public schools and whether it can be done without creating a white backlash that threatens to drown the actual history out.
- It's "Heat Season" in New York City again, meaning landlords have to keep apartments sufficiently warm. But what if they don't turn on the heat? Judith Goldiner, attorney-in-charge at The Legal Aid Society’s Civil Law Reform Unit, explains what to do if you don't have any heat.
- Crain's worked with an independent research firm to compile a list of great places to work in NYC. Aaron Elstein, senior finance reporter for Crain's New York Business, talks about why people like working at these companies, and listeners call in to share what makes their employer one of the good ones.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.
