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Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

How the Coronavirus Impacts America's Most Vulnerable

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6538 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Coronavirus poses a higher risk for America's most vulnerable and nonprofit leaders are trying to help - including pregnant women and mothers with newborns, millions of people living in poverty, and children who depend on free meals from school. Christy Turlington Burns of Every Mother Counts, Wes Moore of the Robin Hood Foundation and Lauren Bush Lauren of FEED discuss the biggest challenges they face and what their organizations are doing to support those in need.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Boss Files. I'm Poppy Harlow. Today I'm talking to leaders who are working to help the most

0:07.4

vulnerable people during this coronavirus pandemic, both here in the United States and around the world.

0:13.5

We wanted to do this episode because this is something I think about a lot and care deeply about.

0:18.8

For those of us who are more fortunate, what can we all do to help those who will be

0:22.7

even more adversely impacted by this, both in terms of disparity in care and the economic

0:28.3

fallout that is just going to increase income inequality in this country?

0:33.2

A little bit later in the show, I'll speak with Wes Moore, the CEO of Robin Hood Foundation.

0:37.7

Their sole mission is lifting people out of poverty right here in New York City.

0:42.4

Wes also has quite a personal story.

0:45.1

So this strikes close to home for him.

0:47.7

I saw with my own family about how these singular shocks can knock a family down to the point

0:53.7

that it then takes this remarkable sense

0:56.6

of influence and, frankly, a lot of luck to be able to help people navigate their way out of this.

1:01.8

I'll also talk to Lauren Bush-Loran, the founder and CEO of Feed Projects, which sells their

1:07.1

feed bags and other items to directly fund the UN World Food Program.

1:11.9

She talks about how she's working with feeds partners around the world and also how she's

1:16.2

trying to support her own employees.

1:18.3

If there's any takeaway so far, it's that we're truly all in this together.

1:22.8

And to me, I think it just puts movements like ours, like the hunger movement, like the environmental movement, certainly, just in a new context.

1:31.9

But let's begin this episode with supermodel-turned-activist Christy Turlington Burns, the founder of Every Mother Counts.

1:38.8

It's an incredible organization that fights to improve care for mothers giving birth around the world, mothers who right now are

1:45.9

facing even greater threats to their health. A quick note before we begin, as you can imagine,

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