tenth grade biology class, co2, co2, hmm, don t trees consume co2 for photosynthesis? quick google check. how about we plant a whole lot more trees across the country and across the world? that seems like a natural solution with lots of upside, trees are beautiful, and might help fight global warming. oh, but no, there is a problem with that idea. planting more trees might help solve climate change, but it definitely will not enrich your donors. trees are cheap. it is hard to make money from trees. worse than that, trees are impossible to regulate. once you plant trees, they grow by themselves, they do not need federal help. trees definitely will not make you more powerful, so instead, here is an idea, let s invest trillions of dollars of other people s money in batteries and wind farms and electric school buses. that way democratic politicians get fingertip control over the entire u.s. economy and all of their friends get rich. sounds perfect. let s go with that idea. that i
Match last night, rafa nadal knocked out after five hours and five sets. How coffee could be more than just a pick me up. Now two major studies say it may help us live longer. Cla p clap your hands together. One, two, three. Closing the age gap. Well find out about the new Nursery Opening on the same site as a care home. Theres a call for british businesses to do more to boost the productivity of their workers. Ill be finding out why its so important, and why the uk lags so far behind. And carol has the weather. Carol has the weather, good morning. Good morning from wimbledon, much cooler today than of late, the risk of interruption today. Early afternoon, a dry slot, heavy and persistent rain. Were likely to see significant rain for the first time ina significant rain for the first time in a while in Southern Parts of england and wales. For the rest of the country, sunshine and showers. We will be back with more details later in the programme. Thank you so much, see you later. Good mo
Great britain will be represented in the ladies wimbledon quarterfinals. Johanna konta says shes just focusing on winning the match. She is delighted she has got this far. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. Cash jobs like Window Cleaning and decorating are said to be worth up to £6 billion a year, so we want to hear from you this morning if you get paid in cash of if youve paid forjobs in cash around you home. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. And if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Ending cash in hand jobs and changing the rules on the gig economy, where workers get paid per task, are two of the recommendations in a major report into the way we work. The Matthew Taylor review also says there are too many people who are being treated like Cogs In A Machine, rather than human beings. Our economics correspondent, andy verity, reports. In the last ten years,
British female finalist since 1978. Aims to become. And scientists have confirmed that they have found that people who drink beer live longer but they dont know why. Coffey. Coffee. Good morning. Its tuesday, july 11th. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. A wide ranging review of the british workplace has urged the government to provide good work for all by creating more skilled, well paid jobs. The study led by a former adviser to tony blair recommends that people working in whats known as the gig economy should receive better protection and their employers should make National Insurance contributions. Theresa may, who commissioned the report, says the conservative government will always be on the side of hard workers and good employers. Labour say the review does not go far enough. The report calls for an end to the Cash In Hand Economy. Workers working in whats known as the gig economy should receive new Legal Protections and their employers should make National Insurance contributions. A
tingling the repulsive and that? it isn t readily repulsive, tucker, the argument is barbaric and of itself, but to have the secretary of the treasury making the argument is chilling because she is really talking about people, rather than as women and mothers and families, she is kind of revealing she is thinking about it in terms of cogs in a machine for the economy. she also talked about how it would disproportionately affect potentially women of color, who are in a lower economic state, which is really a sister, intellectually, to margaret sanger, the founder of planned parenthood, who would talk about, you know, those who are not suited to have children because their feebleminded or poverty-stricken because they don t provide, you know, something better to society, what can they give to society, and therefore they should not be having children. so really repulsive, really kind of exposes how she views the american people, and really kind of tells american women, you know, what sh