The US Department of Education has announced an overhaul of its student loan forgiveness program for public service workers. So who's eligible, and what exactly are they eligible for? On today's show, Stacy Cowley, New York Times finance reporter with a focus on consumer issues and data security, discusses the overhaul to a federal student loan forgiveness program that will benefit more than a half-million public service and non-profit workers.

 Over the past week, a whistleblower's revelations about Facebook and an outage that brought the tech giant offline for hours have given Congress some rare bipartisan common ground. On today's show, Cecilia Kang, national technology correspondent at The New York Times and co-author with Sheera Frenkel of An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination (Harper, 2021), breaks down the key takeaways from yesterday's congressional hearings on the matter.

How worried should we really be about our national debt, and are the benefits of congressional oversight of the "debt ceiling" really worth the costs of government shutdowns? On today's show, Teresa Ghilarducci, labor economist focusing on retirement security, director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School, and a senior contributor for Forbes, explains what government shutdown would mean for ordinary Americans.

A new book from a pair of renowned investigative journalists documents the turmoil that marked Trump's final weeks in office. On today's show:Robert Costa, national political reporter at The Washington Post and co-author with Bob Woodward, of Peril (Simon & Schuster, 2021), talks about his new book about the shaky transition of power from the Trump to the Biden administration.

A couple of Senate Democrats are playing hardball with some of their party's agenda for this legislative session. Plus, the Senate and House passed a short-term spending bill yesterday, ahead of a midnight deadline which would have shut down the government. On today's show, Seung Min Kim, White House reporter for The Washington Post, discusses the latest news and what happens next.

Today, a crucial deadline in Congress for the Democrats' infrastructure bill and other legislative matters. We caught up with a Dem. leader right after a meeting on the day's agenda. On today's show, U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D NY-8th, Brooklyn and Queens), House Democrats chairman, talks about where things stand with the infrastructure bill, the safety net reconciliation bill, the debt ceiling and more as Congress wrestles over President Biden's big agenda items.

With Biden's infrastructure bill center stage in Congress, what could it mean for home health aides and family caregivers? On today's show, Ai-jen Poo, co-founder and Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, talks about what substantially more funding could mean for both home health care workers and the people who rely on their services.

With the U.S. rollout of booster shots for vulnerable people, much of the rest of the world is still struggling to get the first dose in people's arms. On today's show, Richard Mihigo, MD, MPH, immunization and vaccines development program coordinator at the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO), makes the case for prioritizing vaccine equity.

It's going to be a busy week in Washington, D.C. From a debate over Biden's immigration approach, to a deadline to pass two major bills, there's a lot to watch for. On today's show, Patrick Gaspard, president and chief executive officer of the Center for American Progress and former US ambassador to South Africa, talks about the latest on Haitian migrants and the United States' immigration policy, plus other national political news.

A senior U.S. diplomat to Haiti resigned over what he called the Biden administration’s "inhumane" decision to deport Haitian migrants. On today's show, Anu Joshi, vice president of policy at the New York Immigration Coalition, and Tracy Reines, regional director in the resettlement, asylum & integration unit at the International Rescue Committee, talk about the mounting crisis at the southern border.