in arizona, vaughn vill yard and in georgia. canvassers, what are they telling you about getting out the vote and what they re telling folks? of course, we re going to start with a frozen person. sorry about that. dasha is frozen. we ll go back to her. jacob soboroff what are you hearing in nevada. i m frozen too, katy. no i m not frozen. it has been extraordinary. it s been really extraordinary to be out here, and to get to pound the pavement with the culinary workers union. the 60,000 strong political powerhouse here that is stumping on the behalf of democratic causes and candidates. you won t believe this but they say they have made contact with almost a million voters at 165,000 conversations, and talked to half of the black and latinx voter population and a third of the aapi population and
one group that could potentially tip the scales, it is the culinary workers union, and it is 50,000, 60,000 strong and it is who makes this place work, the hotel worker, the bartenders, you name it, pounding the pavement, 165,000 different voters, talking to half of the eligible black and latino population in the state, a third of the aapi population, and we ve been hanging out with them quite a bit over the course of last two days hearing about what people care about in this state and here is a little sample of what we heard. and as you guys have been going door to door, like what s the stuff that people are saying matters most to them? it s expensive. i have heard a lot of women choice, women that are single with kids, their apartments, with rent, the mortgage is going up. everything is going up. too expensive to live. oh, yes. so that s two of the
those vacancies are in the care sector, and the report also found that three in five patients get stuck in hospital because they do not get the support, the support is not get the support, the support is not available in the community to get them out and that has a knock on effect with delays in emergency departments and what are described as dangerous waits for an ambulance handovers. and what about solutions? any discussed in the report? the report says a lot of the problems are rooted in historic underfunding, say what it calls for is long term investment and a workforce plan for health and care, but also targeting what it is saying in terms of social care. and there is an issue which comes up in this report, and we had one from a body that monitors the social care workforce, a couple of weeks ago, and both say the same thing. we need to value the work thatis thing. we need to value the work that is done by care staff and
they don t mind if there is a delay, say they still need the money because we need to tackle the shortage of care staff, 165,000 vacancies in care alone. taste shortage of care staff, 165,000 vacancies in care alone. we have a wider economic vacancies in care alone. we have a wider economic problem vacancies in care alone. we have a wider economic problem in that i vacancies in care alone. we have a| wider economic problem in that we have too few people chasing too many job vacancies and presumably does not help for social care companies to hold onto their staff of the rates of pay and conditions are not comparable with what they can get in another job comparable with what they can get in anotherjob however much they feel a vocation, they have bills to pay and children to bring up, often and are facing the cost of living crisis like anyone else and if a better paid jobs out there, it s not unreasonable they will give up the social care and go there. that must be a big problem. it s
the future of relations with your kingdom, is there any effort with the saudis right now to try to smooth things over? so let me start by saying that saudi/u.s. relations are long-standing. not only have they endured for the past eight decades, but they have continued to strengthen and to deepen and broaden and they re both democratic and republican. it includes political cooperation, it includes military cooperation, it includes economic and trade. and by the u.s. government s own estimates, that level of trade and economic cooperation supports 165,000 jobs here in the united states. so it is a relationship that has withstood the test of time for many compelling reasons. right, but analysts say and i had one of my show last night say, look, allies take into account other allies when making key decisions and saudi arabia new what the u.s. stance