How to Rebuild Our Country After the Pandemic (with Carmen Rojas)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
Lemonada Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A tidal wave of federal money is set to flow into communities across the country as programs like the American Rescue Plan Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act disperse funding. Andy speaks with Marguerite Casey Foundation president Dr. Carmen Rojas about how to make sure that money goes into the right hands. They also discuss the brightsides of COVID, how to make the government work for us, and why liberal movements must include poor white people.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Julie Alui-Dreyfus. |
| 0:07.0 | I love learning new things and talking to interesting people just like Andy does here |
| 0:11.2 | on In The Bubble. |
| 0:12.7 | In my new podcast, Wiser than Me, I'm sitting down with the wisest women I could find. |
| 0:17.7 | Women like Carol Burnett, Jane Fonda, Darlene Love, Isabelle Ianday, just to see what they |
| 0:23.6 | have to teach me about how to live a full and meaningful life. |
| 0:28.0 | We tune in to get wise. |
| 0:30.3 | Wiser than Me from Lemonade Media is out now, listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | We are going to win, we're not going to lose. |
| 0:45.7 | Our planet is at its breaking point. |
| 0:47.7 | The industry is in denial. |
| 0:49.4 | The politicians are selling us out to industry. |
| 0:52.6 | The plastic is the nightmare gift that never stops giving. |
| 0:57.7 | Welcome to Lemonade Media's latest series, Discarded, in partnership with Only One, hosted |
| 1:02.6 | by me, Gloria Rivera. |
| 1:04.9 | Join us on our journey through the past, present and future of plastic, out now. |
| 1:15.4 | Lemonade. |
| 1:22.6 | This is In The Bubble with Andy Slavitt. |
| 1:40.2 | Don't forget, send me your emails at AndyAtLeavenOutamedia.com and you've been doing that and I appreciate |
| 1:47.3 | it. |
| 1:48.3 | I'm recording from the road today. |
| 1:50.3 | I'm in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C., where we have just seen Speaker McCarthy |
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