Pandemic. Later, National Indian Health Board Chair on the affecting native American Communities. Morning, its thursday, april 9, 2020. Against the backdrop of another deadly day, turmoil across the country, political leaders in washington are headed for a showdown over hundreds of liens of dollars in new aid for Small Businesses. With the senate set to move forward with funding today we begin our program by hearing from Small Business owners and their employees. Let us know how your Small Business has been impacted by coronavirus. Small Business Owners, 202 7488000 is your number. Small business employees, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning, that number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, twitter or facebook. Good thursday morning to you, we are hearing from the 60 million americans that work at Small Businesses in this country and the more than 30 some businesses around the country. You
Zoom, director of Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation and will serve on the coronavirus Recovery Commission. What questions will you try to answer . Guest thank you so much for having me. I have to extend the thanks to my older son amos. Normally we are doing socially distancing math so he gets to skip that. Host i hope you pick it up later in the day. Guest we will say what happens see what happens. We have to prioritize folks getting back to work but only when it is safe, and that is the preponderance of the advice from Economic Experts and literature. There was a study done by m. I. T. Economists looking at the 1918 flu pandemic and they found in city is that instituted Good Public Health policy, the economic recovery was much faster than areas that did not institute Good Public Health policy like social distancing. Not only does Good Public Health policy push down mortality but it negates the longterm effects of the pandemic. Americans and businesses across the country are l
Taken since yesterdays 3,000 point drop jim, you have never been a huge fan of futures, but you think they are especially irrelevant now. Right these are fraught. I got up three, the market looked great it was up like looked like we would make up half of what we lost yesterday i come back, were down. Lets stay focused on individual stocks individual stocks are all being brought down by the indices. The great opportunities, i want to use that word, come from the obliteration of the futures, mean while there are companies who are doing well theres companies doing quite poorly well go over both there will be opportunities today. Theres a lot of give up yeah. I want to get i have a lot of specific questions for you i know you have regeneron tonight. Signs of hope, whether its test kits from roche, therapeutics, you heard gottlieb a moment ago talking about it those three things, test, therapeutics, vaccines we are starting to see very early signs of progress. Absolutely. You look at tesla.
Just a little item, you were talking earlier about the fines for sunday. I walk down west pearl and i dont see signs telling people, on sundays, we have were collecting for meters. Its only fair to be straight with the folks so they dont get up set. If youre fair with people, you can get more revenue on evening parking meeting and thats going to be big revenues in time. And so and you need these fundings so you can do more service improvements. Im glad to see the little money is creeping into the budget. Youre going to get some service improvement, but every time you get one, more people will ride and more people on metros and it goes back. You have to make the subway full proof and its a big problem and you better get started. Thank you. Charles, and jenna luna. Yes, good morning. Charles minister. Senior in disability action and a member of California Alliance tart americans. First off i want to give out a solute to local 250 a and all of the members of immuny who keep the function,
You got a lot of problems on Market Street with the traffic. What better place to put these guys and put them to use saving lives instead of harassing the muni passengers. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Jenna lion. Patricia, faya. My name is jenna and im apart of fap and were apart of disability and i dont like what the budget is doing to us because our disability card is right now 23, its going on 24. And 8th and howard, we go to read skills and theres a lot of traffic there, and were right here at howard and theres a lot of traffic and people with disability cant walk. They have wheelchairs and this has to stop. You know what, the buses, they have muni because people dont pay and the buses are not working. The elevator go down is not working and people are using the buses for free thats why the police are there and enforcing the law. Thats not fair for all of us, its over crowded, we have people with canes and walkers and its over crowded. Next speaker. Pablo. What i was upset a