Living on their farms. They begin moving other places looking for new land to live on. People were in dire straits. Wasof the worst hit areas agriculture. A Program Began under one of the advisors to president franklin theevelt to document conditions under which people. Ere living this is when we didnt have television. Of folksdio but a lot did not have electricity. They sent out photographers to take pictures of what was happening and they put these pictures into newspapers whenever they could and into magazines and trade journals and things like that. It was difficult to get newspapers to accept these photographs because nobody wanted to face up to what was happening, but lori stryker who was an economist from Columbia University was really persistent. He was the head of this project and went to newspaper offices, contacted newspaper people, magazine people and pushed and pushed against these pictures to get them published and out to the public so they could see what was happening. E
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Is july 15. Norquist joining us to talk about tax day this year. Delay. Ual what do you think the pandemic has done to the anticipated revenue of taxes . Down, ites have come down a lot of actiq a lot of activity. 20 million jobs lost. It is starting to come back strong. June,e, we just finished 4. 8 million net new jobs. Both of those are historic records. We have not had that much job creation before. The economy is very strong. It was shut down in many parts. As it opens up, it is returning to the more robust economy we had in january, february of this year and the last couple of years. Nothing has changed. The lower taxes they gave us growth are still there. The deregulation, which as of a year ago was saving 220 billion costs in terms of excess because of changes in regulations. That is an old number. It is a higher number now. What they are struggling with his governors, mayors, and the federal government at points have shut down. Tough to travel. People arent allowed to go to ba
Lavongo on their merger and the first companys earnings report. David has news on microsoft and tiktok. Want to continue to update a story were following closely given we have not seen anything like it. Tiktok the incredibly popular social media app in the u. S. And around the world, bytedance its owner, the u. S. Government saying we will shut tiktok down in the u. S. Unless you find a way to transfer all of it to u. S. Ownership and microsoft playing the role as potentially the only suitor for the business i wanted to bring everybody up to date on new reporting that ive got because it is interesting. Both sides right now, bytedance and microsoft and of course the u. S. Government is still very much involved in this as well are negotiating to try to reach some sort of an agreement under which microsoft would buy the u. S. Business of texas toks u. S. Bit from bytedance within the next two to three weeks. That seems to be what theyre hoping for in terms of a timeline obviously in these
In the history of the census, no president has ever tried to manipulate the census count in this way. And to do the exact opposite of what the president is now trying to do. Committed to counting every person regardless of citizenship or legal status under the rules of congress set in the census act of 1790. The decision to release this memo now appears designed to inflict maximum damage to the accuracy of the ongoing 2020s on this. In just two weeks, the Census Bureau will start visiting the homes of millions of people whove not yet responded to the census. With the fear and confusion and communities across the country and could leave many people to decide not to participate. This will not hurt communities that are already undercounted, underrepresented and underfunded. Addressing the chaos caused by the president to know well drained of eligible resources from the Census Bureau which is already struggling to administer in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic. And it will further d