Jcpenney, shake shack leading the charge. Numbers to watch for, deliver those the moment they hit the tape. Break them down for you, look at outlook, and the market response. All coming up here on closing bell today. Meantime more questions than answers following the deadly amtrak train crash in philadelphia. Well speak with rail refegsles and senator tom carper what can be done to fix the crumbling infrastructure bill. Ironically its infrastructure week. The house was scheduled to vote on amtrak funding today, they did, and did vote to cut amtrak funding, as expected. House committee, i think House Committee work on that. One proposal to increase funding, it didnt move forward and the bill being marked up would cut a quarter of a billion. Timing is everything. Such a great story from homeless to harvard. This wholelesshomeless girl, used crowd funding to raise thousands of dollars needed to attend harvard university. She will be here at the New York Stock Exchange to talk about how sh
Or google or you want to hire real talent, you pay them more because you really need that talent, so that you pay them more to offset the employment tax. If youre working the lumberyard in oregon or somewhere, where theres a surplus of labor, the you dont pay them more to offset it, so the irony is that it ends up hitting the lower paid guy and the lower the struggling industry more than it hits the person whos in the consulting or technology industry. So reducing those employment taxes are have many benefits. For example, 24 Million People or 25 Million People working part time now could very well be brought into the workforce. You could find people that werent working to be brought into the workforce, so thats the good news. The question is, what are you going to use to provide the money to do that . And you know, i know the committee has looked at it. Its probably not possible. But who knows . They said tax reform wasnt possible in 86. You could take a dollar gasoline tax or you cou
The federal governments job to determine what your mission may be. And certain if youre a private forprofit, were not here to dictate your organizations mission. But a forprofit institution has no special right to federal funding. And if youre going to receive billions of dollars in federal subsidies, we think its reasonable as we endeavor to reauthorize the Higher Education act that we tie some reasonable Public Policy strings to those dollars. And all we are saying is that we want institutions of Higher Learning, and especially their leadership, to wake up every morning and think not first about profits, not think first about how theyre going to market to find more customers, but think about access and affordability. And what were saying is that different institutions may have Different Missions. A Community College has a different mission from a Training Institute and a fouryear institution has a different mission than a graduate institution. And thats all fine. And thats why weve e
Launches an intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Ah, hello, im emily anguish. This is al jazeera live from doha. Also coming up, funerals is said to be held in garza for 21. 00 victims of a fire. Inside a refugee camp. Twitter temporarily closes its offices after reports. Hundreds of employees have quits and a setback for synagogue just 2 days before the start of the world come in cotton. Ah, welcome to the program. The us and south career have held joined to air force drills, hours after north korea launched a long range Ballistic Missile incident to overshadow the start of the Asia Pacific Trade summers in thailand, us Vice President Carmella Harris gathered ladies of allied states to condemn the launch this conduct by north korea most recently is a raising violation of multiple un security resolution. Stabilizes here in the region and unnecessarily raises tension. We strongly condemn these actions, and we again call north korea to stop further unlawful. The stabilizing act on behalf
Deep south. In just a few hours president obama will deliver his fifth state of the union dress to the stationthenation. Libby casey has more. Libby, over to you. Reporter expect the president to talk about income inequality, Immigration Reform and afghanistan. We have heard the president say he plans to use executive forward, some other refrains well hear tonight we heard before especially when it comes to the economy. The president spoke about the economy in last years state of the union. Create good middle class jobs. That must be the north star that guides our efforts. Reporter the middle class once again on his mind, tony, and the economy is doing better now. The best its ever done during the obama presidency. The question is will americans attribute that to his leadership . Do they give the president credit for that. So far the poll numbers indicate they do not. Could he turn that around and get some credit for how the economy has been faring. Will he use executive orders to push