The minimum wage. You have a population thats aging, a big part of the population and a lot of people who are taking care of people who are older are older themselves and financially vulnerable. Some would argue that raising the minimum wage at this point actually makes that harder because it makes it harder for people to get the care they need at a price they can afford. How does Something Like that get resolved in your opinion . We need to show that were all dependent on one another. You have people who are care givers for their parents, care givers for children, care givers for the sick and disabled. They all care about each other in a community. Its not caregiver against person being cared for. We need to figure out ways, and i think they spoke about this on on the panel earlier this morning, we talk about how we value care in our society. Somebody caring for elderly parents or working as a Home Health Aide earning Poverty Level wages, thats not good for the caregiver or the person
For those who missed up in the morning im the Vice President of the atlantic. Have alle lighted to of you here today for the atlantic presents the shriver looking at women on the economic edge, a very, very important issue. I wanted to give a thanks again the companys and organizations that helped to make this possible. Womens nation team, maria and her staff and for American Progress and presenting underwriter the American Federation of teachers supporting underwriters, and thomsonatories reuters. Terrific inen giving up their support. I have gotten lots of good comments and questions and feedback during the break. Keep those coming using whatwomenneed and follow us at atlanta underscore live and report. Also through your comment cards q a and feel free to find any of us after the program. We will go straight through the afternoon. Brace yourselves. We will skip the afternoon break to fit a little more in. You need to get up or get a coffee or stretch your legs, feel free to do so. Ar
What we do will affect those numbers. This is not an act of god that we are looking at. It is an act of what society does. Shimon prokupecz is at the comfort, the navy ship that was brought for noncovid cases before. Reporter a large number of people but more importantly it is the number of people that have been calling out sick. We are almost at 20 at the nypd, the number of officers who has been calling out sick. At last count it was close to 7,000. That number is likely to grow. They had 12 deaths and a detectiv detectives, officers and civilians who lost their lives. This is everyone whos apart of the community. It is taking the toll on the nypd and also close to 2,000 members of Police Officers who have tested positive for the vir virus, anderson. 20 figure that does not necessarily mean that all of them have covid, it is just thats the percentage of officers who are calling in sick or employees of the Police Department calling in sick. Thats right. These officers are calling in s
Village, recovering five years after a devastating earthquake. Welcome. Im paula newton. Its 5 00 p. M. In manila where millions have been braving the terrible weather to celebrate the mass with pope francis. As you can see, pope francis exiting the stage. This was a large Outdoor Service and the pope in his homily talked about children suffering and families and the poor. This is the last day for the pope in the philippines before returning to the vatican. With us is anna who is there. Give us kind of some of what you are seen over the last few hours. Reporter well in particular the millions who have gathered here to see pope francis. Authorities predicted perhaps a papal mass of 6,000. I dont think we will get that. The rain has not stopped since pope francis arrived here. I can tell you now, as you can hear from the screams behind me they are expecting pope francis to get in his pope mobile and to the streets. They are all lined up to give him a wave and cheer. I was speaking to the
The city of Colorado Springs kicked off its Clean Water Community Challenge on Aug. 4 with the installation of a new Gutter Bin system, sponsored by GE Johnson Construction Company.