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Part One:
We speak with Allen Morrison, Professor of Global Management at Arizona State University, about the trade war between the US and China. Pres. Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have agreed to restart trade talks, and US business leaders and investors are optimistic that the two countries will eventually reach a trade agreement.
Unfortunately, even if such an agreement were signed, it would do little to fix the real problems that US companies face when trying to do business in China.
Part Two:
We welcome Cati Coe, professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, to a discussion of the value of unskilled immigrants who have entered the United States. Professor Coe has done research on the plight of elderly Americans — a category which will be increasing over the next decades as the baby boomers lose more and more of their physical and cognitive strength. The evidence shows that so-called “unskilled” immigrant workers are playing a large role in caring for — and easing the pain of — older and dying Americans.
These immigrant workers possess many skills that the elders need and appreciate from their care-givers: compassion, sensitivity to the patient’s needs, the ability to nurture a caring and trusting relationship that gives the elders a reason to wake up in the morning, sustaining their will to live and minimizing their desire to give up.
This analysis is worth considering both with respect to the immigration debate and also regarding our country’s bulging elderly population, including society’s need to take care of our aging parents, grandparents and spouses.
