Who have paychecks. People do not right now, which brings us to the second big issue, which is Unemployment Insurance benefits. A gut instinct is we will see two month extension of the current Unemployment Insurance booster payments such as 600 a week through september 1. The alternative is we cut it to 400 a week, but extended for a longer duration, say through year end. Referenced achin technical correction needing to be made. This is far from a technical correction. This is a deepseated issue of disagreement between democrats and republicans. I would say this is the biggest sticking point. The way it will get resolved it to throw money at the problem. To that end we have shifted up our expectations of the overall scale and scope of the bill. The last time we spoke i was expecting a 1. 5 trillion package. Now our base case is 1. 5 trillion to 2 trillion. The further that rises, the more generous the Unemployment Benefits will be. You can see potential spending directly on certain sec
Here in california. Cases have risen above 2000 up to 2102. That is up from 1700 above 2000 up to 2102. That is up from 1733. Federal Health Officials are asking people who are leaving new york for other places to self quarantine for 14 days as an effective measure. The number of cases is doubling every three days. And it is now above 25,000. The white house at 4000 more ventilators are now going to the state after an urgent plea today for help from governor andrew cuomo. Health officials are also working on experiment always to use one machine for two people. There are two ventilators here, with two sets of pipes going into the two patients. Bill de blasio said the city may shutdown playgrounds and parks this weekend to ensure that people are using those social distancing recommendations. Hospital workers are obviously concerned about the safety and protective gear. And heres why. Today we know that there 2 hospital workers are not tested positive. Hospital in San Francisco. Christian
Worldwide, the confirmed cases at 260,000. That is our starting point on this sunday morning. The ap has this headline, the week america changed. How has your life changed over the last week to 10 days and what you expect moving forward . Numbers,the phone 202 7488000 in the eastern and pacific time zones. Central and mountain, 202 7488001. Medical professionals, you can call in on 202 7488002. Send us a tweet or send us a text message at 202 7488002 at 202 7488003. Be sure to tell us your first name and where you are texting from. The number of coronavirus cases continues to increase world wide in the Associated Press has a headline thought would be a good jumping off point of this sunday morning. It has been a week that has changed all of our lives directly or indirectly, one way or the other. The week that america changed, we want to hear from you and tell us how your life has changed. From the ap, there is this that from the Associated Press. Our phone lines are divided regionally
Final push for overhaul on wednesday. As a candidate i promise we would pass a massive tax cut for the everyday working American Families who are the backbone and heartbeat of our country. Now we are just days away, i hope, you know what that means, right . Keeping that promise and delivering a truly amazing victory for American Families. We want to give you, the American People a giant tax cut for christmas. Wall street journal columnist Dan Hettinger joined the panel, and editorial writer kate odell and assistant Editorial Page Editor james freeman. You followed the ins and outs detail on detail, good tax policy, good reform or not . A major improvement on the business side, structural reform, 35 to 21 and territorial system where it is earned instead of taxing it twice when it comes to the us. Expensive on new investment. Extended by congress but this is a marginal improvement on the individual side but not really a reform with the same deductions and credits but on the whole repres
Pretty good ones. We had sarah battle earlier this year, john hodgman, last semester, these three great stuff planned for next semester already. Also, tonights forum is being filled by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and also, hopefully state your name in your question another reason we ask you to state your name is because we then do a write up of all the forum afterward which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on a website which is [inaudible] in the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius which is another group here at mit. I am thrilled to be able to introduce these three it is a different three than we initially thought would be here because just called me up a little past five because his daughter was puking as the father of gms kids myself i said stay home and fortunately chris couch who writes a lot about technology is a brilliant journalist in their own right and ha