Amanpour and Company

March 9, 2021

Former ambassador David Scheffer and activist Jewher Ilham discuss China's genocide against the Uyghur people. Bumble founder Emily Wolfe Herd discusses dating in the age of COVID-19. Amy Castro Baker and Sukhi Samra join Hari Sreenivasan to explain the results of a groundbreaking new study on guaranteed income.

Groundbreaking Revelations on Guaranteed Income

18m 22s

Starting in 2019, a guaranteed basic income effort known as SEED started giving 125 individuals $500 a month for two years, with volunteers chosen from neighborhoods where the median income was around $46,000 or below. Director Sukhi Samra and researcher Amy Castro Baker have closely analyzed the results of this experiment, and they discuss their findings with Hari Sreenivasan.

Previews + Extras

  • How Bumble is Changing Dating Norms: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    How Bumble is Changing Dating Norms

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    Last month, Bumble founder and CEO Emily Wolfe Herd became the youngest woman to take a major American company public. She joins Christiane to talk about her personal journey and dating in the age of COVID-19.

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    Activist and Fmr. Ambassador Discuss Uyghur Genocide

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    Does the world now have a duty to intervene? That is the big question after a blistering new report concludes China bears responsibility for genocide against the Uyghur people. Former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues David Scheffer joins the program alongside Uyghur activist Jewher Ilham, whose father is serving a life sentence in China.

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