know what they would benefit from? low-wage workers making more money and spending more money. how do we move forward when we don t agree why people aren t working? democrats say childcare issues. we look at the data, it doesn t show that. help us understand this. look, there s a lot of factors. the biggest is probably it just takes time to match workers to jobs. certainly the virus is out there. i think unemployment insurance has played a role. in some cases that can be a good role. it can help people find the right jobs for them. in other cases, it can have a down side. but the important thing is look forward. every one of those issues people talk about is going to solve itself over the next few months. what s the landing pad for after this? infrastructure plan, support for families and some form of unemployment insurance, not what we have now, but some cushion
state to defer parts of the visa process, calling the situation a crisis. the state department says it s waived some interviews to speed up the process. it s great that the state department took that action, but it s not enough. reporter: cal harrah resorts owns four water parks and hires about 700 year seas workers. this summer, maybe 100. the j-1 visa program is vitally important for tourism in america. reporter: they offered beanouses, relocation packages and even housing to find employees. but for sally, the issue is a personal one. i came over on a j-1 visa. little did i know i would end up marrying the camp director s son. reporter: summer is here. will the workers be? joining me now to discuss, austan goolsbee, former chairman of the council of economic advisers. there are all sorts of reasons we re not seeing people back to work, whether it s international workers who can t get j-1 visas, childcare issues, health issues, take your pick. but does all of this get work
people are staying home because they are getting paid so much money. it s going to take time. we are reopening the economy all at the same time. we are going out and we are spending more money. there s this rush. you have people with childcare issues, transportation issues. it s going to take time to work these kinks out. just because we say, parents can go back to work, school reopened, well school is about to close for summer break. if you talk to summer camps, they tell you they have a problem because they can t get the international workers they depend on every year because of the visas that have been put on hold because of travel ban issues. to say as soon as we get rid of the expanded unemployment, boom, this is going to be fixed, no. reopening the economy, getting back on economic track takes time. stephanie ruhle, thank you. kelly o donnell with the president there in ohio, thanks to you as well. quote, i m scared.
Many moms have been forced out of their jobs during the pandemic due to health or childcare issues. CBS News Business Analyst Jill Schlesinger explains what women should prioritize financially and what's in the new stimulus bill that could help them
is what cnn has learned. cnn has learned that i.c.e. was working to release many detainees from the raids because of childcare issues. i can t speak to the visa situation. but this was as long as they were not being criminally arrested. can you speak about the status of some of these separations? what do you know? yeah. what we know is that mississippi wasn t informed. child protective services was not informed that these raids were going to occur before they happened. our school districts were not informed. that everybody had to go into crisis mode to figure out how to care for these children and whe i.c.e. came in and ripped their parents away. what we do know is this was a horrible example of how to do anything within government in a proper way. what we do know is that this was actually an act to terrorize the people of our state. it was not an act to right any wrong.