Slower than july, significantly slower than in may and june. More and more temporary layoffs, turning into permanent layoffs. 28 Million People have filed for unemployment and after 6 months in the pandemic, were less than halfway back to where we were with 11. 5 million americans not getting their jobs back. Were still down 720,000 manufacturing jobs. In fact, donald trump may be the only president in modern history to leave office with fewer jobs than when he took office. I talk to a lot of real working people. Ask them, they feel like theyre being left behind. Ask them, how do they feel about the economy coming back . Youll fine they dont feel it and thats why im here today to thank paul and his team for hosting us at west end Neighborhood House here in wilmington. Paul, your continued tradition of doing gods work for this community is important. Its been around for more than 130 years. Through pandemics, wars, depressions. West end has been here for generations of people. Who are j
For a complete schedule visit booktv. Org. Now on booktv, Edward Mcclelland reports on Americas Industrial midwest, also known as the rust belt. The author examines the regions oncepowerful Manufacturing Centers and how their demise has resulted in the exodus of local populations in search of employment. Its about an hour. [applause] thank you. That was a really good introduction because it segways right into what i wanted to talk about at the beginning which was the fisher body plant in its heyday. It was, i went to high School Across the street from the fisher body plant in lansing, michigan, and it was perfectly integrated into the industrial life of the state. The high school was part of the supply chain. It would provide the workers for industrial labor. And there was a saying that you had a diploma in your hand one week and a ratchet in your hand the next week. People would just walk right across the street two weeks after graduation, and theyd have a job. And when i was going to
Potential of conflict. Were at a crossroads. Were at one of those really hinge points in history. One path could lead to an enduring resolution and International Communities concerns about Irans Nuclear program. The other path could lead to continued hostility and potentially to conflict. And i dont have to tell you that these are high stakes. This weekend on cspan, secretary of state john kerry on why house members should not impose additional sanctions against iran as talks continue on freezing parts of Irans Nuclear program. Watch this morning at 10 eastern on cspan2s booktv, dick cheney and his longtime cardiologist Jonathan Reiner talk about the former Vice President s history with Heart Disease and recent advances in cardiology, tonight at 11. And on cspan3s American History tv, a look at the free africanamerican men and former slaves who fought for the union, sunday at 13 a. M. Eastern. And now on booktv, taylor branch, author of the multivolume america in the king years, presen
Reporter a flurry of global diplomatic activity were hospitaled by these comment business u. S. Secretary of state john kerry. Sure he can turn over the chemical weapons to the International Community in the next week turn it over. All of it. It will allow full and total accounting before that but he isnt about to do that and cant be done obviously. Reporter the state Department Said his ultimate was a flush eur. Flush flourish announcing a surprise change. Translator john kerry said the attacks can be avoid if damascus comes over to the u. N. We dont know if syria will agree to that. If they do, russia will immediately work with damascus tie chief that. Reporter he has welcomed to russian proposalle but its far from clear whether that means the assad regime will agree to oh new plan. The next in a far moveing chain of events came here in new york. The russian plan became a u. N. One with strong support from the secretary general. Im urging the Security Council to demand the transport
You just cant walk into General Motors. Larry eventually made it to General Motors but i think it took him 10 years also working another smaller concerns and still not in actual employee but a fireman and works for the subcontractor. And the other graduated in 1965 in the job search consisted of cutting classs to apply all auto plants in to hold down in town hall it was no coincidence that when the vietnam war was cranking up it was the perfect war for General Motors because it was big enough to provide 750 million per year of defense contracts but not so big that it could not build cars light in world war ii. So 65 to 69 not a single month when the Unemployment Rate was higher than 4 in the United States for you could not be as lacquer the hippies had to create the alternative morality to justify themselves. So dog got married and bought a house and he was 20 and went on to work 37 years of General Motors the course was set right out of my school he thought the baby boomers would be t