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Flashpoint 9/5/21: Test scores decline sharply during pandemic, labor market continues to confound business leaders, commemorating 20-year anniversary of 9/11 attacks

Watch Flashpoint every Sunday at 10 a.m. on Local 4 News

DETROIT – With another tenuous and uncertain school year starting this week for many the latest grades show a year of remote learning had Michigan students falling behind. Is there an answer?

And on this Labor Day weekend, the labor market continues to confound many business leaders. Will disappearing unemployment benefits adjust the picture?

Next Saturday will mark 20-years since the attacks on the World Trade Center and all that 9/11 has come to mean to us as Americans.

On Sunday morning, Local 4 News reporter, Tim Pamplin reflected on his experience covering the 9/11 attacks.

He shared his thoughts as one of the people Local 4 News dispatched to New York two-decades ago.

Segment One

Liz Blondy, owner, Canine to Five Detroit Dog Daycare; Sandy K. Baruah is president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Regional Chamber; Carolyn Cassin, President and CEO of the Michigan Women Forward and John McElroy of Autoline.

Segment Two

Incoming president and CEO of the Skillman Foundation, Angelique Power.

Segment Three

Flashpoint host Devin Scillian speaks with Local 4 News reporter Tim Pamplin on his experience covering the 9/11 attacks.