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CBS This Morning: Dissecting the Infrastructure Plan

President Biden released his $1.5 trillion budget proposal, which he hopes will have bipartisan support. But Senate Republicans are already pushing back and criticizing the less than 2% increase in defense spending. I joined CBS This Morning: Saturday to discuss where the plan stands and what the road ahead looks like.

CBS Sunday Morning: Income Inequality

Two-thirds of the nation's wealth is owned by the richest five percent of Americans, while at the same time more than 38 million Americans live in poverty. The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer has been the story of economic inequality for the last 50 years, and COVID-19 appears set to continue the trend. I joined CBS Sunday Morning with a look at the downside, and what one business figure calls the upside, of income disparity.

CBS Sunday Morning: Higher Ed During COVID

The coronavirus is leaving its mark on colleges and universities, perhaps permanently. With schools working hard to keep COVID-19 off-campus, 13% percent of colleges will offer online-only classes, while 35% will offer a mix of virtual and socially-distanced in-person classes. Here's my piece for CBS Sunday Morning on how educators and students are adjusting to an on-campus experience that will be, as one university professor describes it, “some combination of a monastery and a minimum security prison.”