Today on AirTalk, our weekly political roundtable recaps the major headlines you might’ve missed in politics news over the weekend and looks ahead to the week to come. We also examine Google's new policy on discussing politics in the workplace; analyze the rise in "super commuters" in LA County; and more.
Week In Politics: G-7 Summit Wrap-Up, Who Has Qualified For The Next Democratic Debate and more
AirTalk’s weekly political roundtable recaps the major headlines you might’ve missed in politics news over the weekend and looks ahead to the week to come. Here are the headlines what we’re following this week:
G-7 summit check-in (Macron’s surprise visitor from Iran, Trump saying China is ready to deal on trade, Trump skips climate change summit amid growing concern over wildfires in Amazon, Trump floats idea of hosting next year’s G-7 at Doral, his Miami golf resort)
The trade war with China continues. President Trump called on American businesses to break connections with China. He also called Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell an enemy, after Powell called the trade war “turbulent”
Conservative billionaire David Koch died on August 23, at the age of 79
2020 Check-in
On the campaign trail, Jill Biden told voters that they should choose her husband, even if they don’t agree with his policies, because he is the most likely to win
Is Jill Biden correct? A POLITICO/Morning Consult survey says Sanders and Biden are the 2 Dem candidates currently capable of beating Trump
Senator Bernie Sanders released a $16.3 trillion climate change proposal. Meanwhile, the DNC poured cold water on the call for a climate change focused debate. How big will this issue be in 2020 among Dems?
Democratic debate qualifying
A recent USC Dornslife/LA Times poll found that Trump has shifted the GOP towards populism - and yet a significant slice of the party don’t approve of the president
ABC is receiving some backlash for adding Sean Spicer as one of the competitors in the next season of Dancing with the Stars
Trump is receiving backlash from the Jewish community after saying that Jewish people who vote democrat are being “disloyal”
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell wrote an op-ed in defense of the filibuster
Guests:
Amanda Renteria, president of Emerge America, a national organization that works to identify and train Democratic women who want to run for political office; she is the former national political director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and has been a staffer for Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI); she tweets
Pete Peterson, dean of the School of Public Policy and senior fellow at The Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University; he tweets
Do Politics And Work Mix? Google Says No Way
Google wants employees to stop talking politics at work, according to a new set of guidelines released by the company on Friday. The note encourages sharing ideas, but says raging debates and name calling goes too far. While no topics are specifically off-limits, if a conversation becomes exclusive or unsafe, Google managers are expected to intervene. The company says work conversation should be focused on just that: work. Do you discuss politics or news in the office? Have those conversations ever gotten out of control?
Guest:
Greg Bensinger, reporter covering the tech industry in San Francisco for the Washington Post; his latest story looks at the new Google guidelines
With “Super Commuters” On The Rise In LA County, AirTalk Listeners Share How They Cope With Their 90+ Minute Drive To Work
Freeways that look like parking lots and seemingly endless commutes are, whether you like it or not, simply a part of life in Southern California. The sprawl of the Greater Los Angeles area can be a pain to traverse, not to mention the amount of time it can take just to get to and from work every day. A new report looking at how Americans commutes are changing at the county level shows that more of us are spending more time behind the wheel every day going to and from our jobs.
Economists at the rental listing platform Apartment List combed through Census data and found that more than 150,000 people in Los Angeles County commute 90 minutes or more each way to work every day, totaling upwards of 15 hours per week in the car or on the train or bus. These so-called “super-commuters” make up about 3.6 percent of the total workforce in Los Angeles County, just slightly higher than the national number of 2.9 percent. L.A. County saw a 22 percent spike in “super commuters” from 2009 to 2017, according to the report.
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Guests:
Chris Salviati, housing economist at Apartment List, an online apartment rental listing site, which prepared the report on “super commuters”