Who will pay for the financial fallout of the coronavirus pandemic governments around the world pledged trillions of dollars try and keep their economies afloat will the massive bailout stop another Global Financial crisis this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im bernard smith. Most economists agree the coronavirus pandemic has pushed the world into recession trade and business abruptly stopped when billions of people were told to stay at home governments are pledging huge stimulus packages to try and reduce the damage the European Union has agreed a 590000000000. 00 rescue package to prop up the worst hit economies such as spain and italy that includes Unemployment Benefits loans for Small Businesses and Health Care Services but leaders couldnt agree on how to share the cost of the crisis the french finance minister is calling this the most important economic plan of the e. U. s history this response contains bald and b. Shoes proposals that will then be unsinkable in jus
Lets get started. Good afternoon and welcome to the march 21st, 2020 special meeting of the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the role. Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer. Here. Supervisor fewer, did you say present . Yes, i said here. Fewer present and supervisor haney . Here. Supervisor mandleman. Present. Supervisor marr. Present. Supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor preston. Present. Supervisor ronan. Present. And supervisor sayaye. Present. Supervisor stephanie. Present. Supervisor walton. Present. And supervisor yee. Present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart and would you please join me in the reciting of the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge that the staff records each of our
Issued. We are continuing to see that trend. For those that have to go out, be careful. Social distance. We had a significant drop in property crimes and violent crimes. The overall crime is down over 26 from this time last year when you do a month to missouri comparison. That is a month to missouri h comparison. Report crimes if you experience them. We are doing what we can to try to limit exposure to officers, general public and general public to officers. You can call in if it is nonviolent call the Emergency Line 415 5530123 to report the crimes. You can utilize 311 or utilize the website. Some crimes you can report online as well. We have started a call in center for Crime Reporting to make it easier to report those crimes. If you have suffered a crime, report it. If it is violent we will respond to those crimes in person. I ask everyone watching this add hed the Public Health orders, keep your distance, listen to what the professional in the Public Health department and around th
For medical supplies and how the recently passed federal aid package will impact new jersey residents. Afternoon, good everyone. Thank you to everyone joining us, especially the thousands of new jerseyans. Communicate will electronically with you unless there is a reason to do otherwise and if there is, you have my word i will personally along with members of our team anavailable and will call audible. Monday, even the we said we would go to 1 00 for our briefings, we will be at 2 00 on monday at the warm oriole with theeve got a vtc white house, which is typically on mondays. In this case, 11 30 so 2 00 is andgh time to attend that communicate with the white house and then we will be with you after that. Anored to be joined by allstar Team Including the commissioner of health. To her right, the department of Health Communicable disease director, good to have you with us, co. Doc. , thank youiate left for joining us and to her left, the superintendent of the police, pat callahan. By th
Coronavirus cases continues to tick up, up and up. A report by the World Health Organization last week noted while it took more than three months to reach 100,000 cases nationwide, excuse me, worldwide, it took 12 days to 1get another 100,000. It doubled in 12 days. And now we know it took less than a week to have the next t100,000. Some of this is because of increased access to testing, something we knew we were not ramped up to do and more and more people are getting tested. Thats good news for those that have it can be isolated and treated if necessary. Those who dont have the peace of mind knowing that they do not carry the disease and they can by virtue of good personal hygiene and social distancing they can remain healthy. But if we are going to have any success at slowing down the trajectory of this and minimizing the economic arm, the time to act is now. The eyes of the nation are upon us. They want to know if partisanship can be set aside in the face of a pandemic. They want t