dinghies, often not very seaworthy, and then trying to cross the channel to get to the uk. of course the channel one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, it is incredibly dangerous to make the crossing. it has been efforts over the years to try and stop this. this latest amount of money, not the first that the uk has sent to france. last year it agreed a similar deal, worth £282 it agreed a similar deal, worth £28.2 million, and of course since then we have seen the numbers increase. so the conservative mp tim loughton is one of those who was asking questions about this earlier at the home affairs select committee, asking that if giving this money to the french authorities was a case of throwing good money after bad. the home secretary said no, france was intercepting more boats than last year and it was a shared problem. so she has defended sending that money but as i said, there is a problem that successive governments have not managed to crack over a number of years. if you
was director of public prosecutions the very idea that i could turn around and say, it was somebody else s s fault, 20 years ago. this is such a bad argument. they ve been in powerfor 11 years. either take responsibility or give up! our overseas aid budget goes beyond that moral obligation. it helps to build a stable world and keeps us safe in the uk. let s take afghanistan. aid has supported improvements in security, governance, economic development, rights forwomen security, governance, economic development, rights for women and girls. despite all tonnages that now faces, and the security and terrorist threat that poses to the uk and we know about those in the previous prime minister knows about those, uk aid to afghanistan is being cut from million to £38.2 million. that is afghanistan. in
$18.2 million on 260 already existing tents, $60,000 per tent, roughly double the median cost of a one-bedroom apartment. shannon: jeff paul out west, thank you very much. breaking tonight, the journalist who conceived the 1619 project for the new york times will get tenure at the university of north carolina after all. the unc board approving nicole hannah jones following weeks of back-and-forth uproar over her hiring as a professor with tenure in chapel hill. let s bring in the author woke in vivek ramaswamy, to talk about the latest drama. welcome back. good to see you. reporting on this in the washington post they say the decision to award tenure to hannah jones could defuse what had become an expert in her shirt on over the academic
shortages. i think the $300 plus-up was probably too generous, the federal unemployment benefit. here is an important point. 24, 25 states now have stopped the federal benefit. so that s going to bring things into a much better place. that will encourage workers to go back to work. you may see more states doing the same thing. so that s good. look, you ve got 8.2 million job openings, unfilled job openings and you ve also got about 10 million people unemployed. so we ve got plenty of resources here to get folks back to work. let s let the boom play itself out before we get all kinds of taxes and green new deal and all that sort of thing that would be negative. right now there is a boom. people should be happy. they should be optimistic. bill: if you re a medium or small size business owners you can only take so many jobs and contracts based on the
into law and how soon and so on and so forth. i do believe though that the president has so clearly laid down a marker in favor of this large expansion of the government and mind you president trump wasn t exactly a deficit cutter himself, that he will, you know, if indeed he runs for re-election, that will be one of the major sort of signature changes in his term that he will be held accountable for whether it, you know, works out or whether it doesn t. bret: economic changes unemployment rate 6.1%. pre-pandemic it was at 3.5%. you ve got the number of employed americans at 144 million. meaning the economy is still missing about 8.2 million jobs lost during the pandemic, jonah. it is recovering. it is starting to churn. yeah. look, i think that this is all in some ways an accident of