Remembering Uvalde & Hoping for Change

Our America with Julián Castro

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Julián addresses the devastating news out of Uvalde, Texas, where a young man on Tuesday gunned down at least 19 elementary school students and two adults. He and Sawyer then talk about this week’s state primaries, the latest on Title 42, and President Biden’s most-recent approval numbers ahead of the midterms. They’re later joined by Director Gustavo Velasquez of the California Department of Housing and Community Development to talk about the innovative ways in which his agency is tackling the state’s housing crisis.

Follow Mr. Velasquez’s work at the California Department of Housing and Community Development online at @California_HCD.

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1:10.0	Just a couple of hours after we recorded our episode news broke of another school
1:16.3	shooting in our country this time in Uvaldi Texas only about 80 miles west of San Antonio, where I am.
1:26.4	At latest reports, a gunman killed 19 children and two adults
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