COVID-19 and Immigration, Deaths of Despair, Mini-Moon

How COVID-19 is Affecting Immigration Detainees (0:30) Guest:  Patrick Michels, Immigration Investigative Reporter, Reveal - From the Center for Investigative Reporting Across the country, more than 37,000 immigrants are being detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in conditions that are sometimes crowded and prime for the spread of disease. On Tuesday, ICE announced the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in a detainee. Immigrant rights advocates are filing a flurry of lawsuits demanding that migrants be released on humanitarian grounds. Good Neighboring in the Time of COVID-19 (20:41) Guest: Rodney Smith Jr., Founder of Raising Men Lawn Care Service Even in the middle of a global pandemic, Rodney Smith, Jr. is on a crusade to do good. He’s been at it for four years, actually, traveling the country mowing lawns – for free – for veterans, single mothers, people with disabilities, the elderly or sick. With the quarantines, Smith is sticking to mowing lawns in Huntsville, Alabama where he lives, rather than traveling to other states. But through his nonprofit called “Raising Men Lawn Care Service” he’s got an army of kids doing the same for people all over the world. Why Are So Many White, Uneducated Americans Dying Deaths of Despair? (32:36) Guest:  Anne Case, PhD, Professor of Economics, Princeton University; Angus Deaton, PhD, Nobel Prize Winning Professor of Economics, Princeton University, Co-Authors of “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism” Life expectancy is falling in America. That’s not supposed to happen in a developed country like ours – and it wasn’t happening until about twenty years ago. But not all Americans are dying younger. Mainly it’s middle-aged white people dying of what Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton have dubbed “deaths of despair.” 2,995 Days of Disneyland (50:24) Guest: Jeff Reitz, Instagram: @disney366\_ The coronavirus pandemic shutdown Disneyland and with it pretty remarkable run for Jeff Reitz. He’d been to Disneyland every single day for ei