Employees who have been out of work now for months. The Second Quarter Gross Domestic Product plummeted 32. 9 between april and june. Thats almost a full third and its the sharpest decline we have seen in u. S. History. The drop in gdp is nearly 4 times worse than it was at the peak of the financial crisis in the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the previous record was 10 in the First Quarter of 1958. Turning over to the stock market and see how stocks are reacting to this dire news. The dow jones is down by almost 200 points, just a little bit more than that right now. S p is suffering a loss of not quite one half of 1 . The nasdaq is the only right spot if you count the addition of 52 points. Nasdaq is up by one half of 1 . You can see stocks mostly regained their footing after a very steep drop at the opening bell and after we got that labor news. Californias jobless claims were down last week despite a nationwide increase. Our state reported 249,000 workers filed firsttime claims during the
The different regulations are a violation of the First Amendment. This oral argument from last week is an hour. We will hear argument, first, this morning in case 13502, reed v. Town of gilbert. Mr. Courtman . Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court the towns code discriminates on its face by treating certain signs differently based solely on what they say. For example political signs may be 32 square feet, may be unlimited in this number and may be placed in the rightofway of the entire town for phi months before five months before the election. But the churchs signs can only be onefifth of that size, only placed in the dark of night the night before the Church Service. While the churchs signs with directional content are only allowed up for 14 hours other signs with directional content are allowed up for much longer. For example builders directional signs to home sales events are allowed up the entire weekend, and Homeowners Association event signs are allowed to be up for 30
The towns code discriminates on its face by trading certain signs differently, based solely on what they say. For example, political signs may be 32 square feet, unlimited in number, and placed in the rightofway of the entire town for five months before the election. The churchs signs can only be one fifth of that size, only placed in the dark of nights the night before the Church Service. While the church signs with directional content are only allowed up for 14 hours other signs are allowed up for much longer. Builders directional signs to home sales events are awloud up the entire weekend, Homeowners Association events signs are allowed to be up for 30 days. What are you seeking . Do you want whatever is the most favorable rule say for ideological signs, is that what you want . Or do you accept that it could be some limit on event sign ss . Some reasonable time limit . Were seeking the same which in this case would be both ideological and political signs. Ideological isnt time limit
A users guide to health care last week and cover the secret committee of doctors pay in america put out by the American Medical Association and is up the signs codes for every imaginable procedure imaginable purview have seen them and they set the price you and your Insurance Company have to pay but unlike every other part this code has not kept up with the times and that means it allows them to putted for a 50 hour day that stretches the imagination and here is the best part the federal government and i read the prices the services pay are up to 50 . You say this may be part of the reason . It is a total racket. The ama conducts surveys and they never err on the side to say it is too little but it is so challenging we have to be reimbursed more. Gerri when we talked about this last week that makes no sense of all. Give us the example. With the intensity of the work required and the time that it takes is the overhead costs so basically that is the incentive for higher reimbursement for