A weekly report on economic developments features interviews with business leaders, information on Investment Opportunities and financial advice. Well as the e. U. Beginning to buy more soybeans from american farmers. We are seeing real progress. American exports are on the rise. This is a Strong Economy and leadership on improving our Trade Relations for American Jobs andworkers. When do you expect them to announce another solid trade deal. Will you be able to announce them before the midterm elections. We are encouraged about the free Trade Agreement. The u. S. Trade representative continues to believe there is a possibility before we get to labor day we might have a reformed nafta agreement. Those details are still being worked out. Look, the president came into this administration with the belief that for too long americans, our economy, our workers are being taken
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Reporting. The new plan comes as frustration builds with protests erupting in several states over the ongoing stayathome orders. Some Health Experts are urging caution in moving too quickly to try to get things back to normal. Were right now at flattening the curve but what we ultimately want to do before we consider any relaxation of any kind of social distancing measures would be to actually decrease the curve, see a steady decline in the curve to almost zero. Our nbc news team is here and ready to go. Stephanie ruehl is following the new unemployment numbers. Garrett haake is at a food bank in dallas, hans nichols at the white house and Eric Mclaughlin out west in seattle. Stephanie, ill bring you in to start things off for us. Lets talk about the grim unemployment numbers, what they mean in the overall picture of the u. S. Economy this morning. Listen, eamon, theyre not good news but theyre also not a surprise. Were expecting a wave of more layoffs from businesses that have been ab