Witnesses and audience members. Thank you everyone for joining with us today as we all bear up under covid19 and address technologically to coming together. We will begin with Opening Statements by myself and the Ranking Member. Follow the by testimony from our witnesses and the opportunity for each member to ask questions. We will dispense of our practice of observing givens rule and instead go to go in order of seniority for questions. Alternating between minority and majority. Members will be responsible for muting and unmuting themselves throughout the proceedings. I thank you all for your patience as we navigate this new technology in order to continue serving our country in this great time of need. With that, i would like to again welcome everybody to the ways and means social subcommittee virtual hearing on the impact of covid19 on Social Security and its beneficiaries. Again, let me add my thanks to the member and of course our witnesses who have joined us today at the ways an
A look at the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Social Security. Witnesses before a house panel say recipient to rely on the income could be affected by a prolonged economic downturn. The subcommittee on Social Security will come to order. I want to welcome all of our witnesses and audience members, thank you for joining with us today as we bear up under covid19 and addressed technologically to coming together. We will begin with Opening Statements by myself and the Ranking Member. Testimony from our witnesses and the opportunity for each member to ask questions. We will dispense the practice of observing and instead go in order of seniority for questioning, alternating between minority and majority. Member will be responsible from youding and then muting themselves throughout the proceedings. Thank you all for your patience as we navigate this new technology in order to continue serving our country in this time of need. With that i would like to welcome everybody to the ways and m
Night two at the jersey shore inside you can rent it for the right price. Early today starts right now good friday morning. We begin with the threat of the coronavirus, here at home. A seriously ill patient in california has experts concerned. She is perhaps the first u. S. Case that is community spread, meaning doctors dont know how or where she got sick. That suggests that the virus is out there in the community, and that means pretty much that everybody is at risk we dont know who might be carrying it or who we could get it from. The uncertainty has been rocking the tom. Our reporter has more. Reporter a dramatic drop, nearly 1200 points, the most ever in a single day for the dow. In coronavirus crash mode. On pace for its worst week since 2008 just ugly, ugly all around janet yellen warning of a potential recession, adding there is risk, but basically i think the u. S. Outlook looks pretty good. Reporter Vice President pence with a show of force at the health depth we want all hand
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Hello, everyone. Can anyone hear me . Sounds good here awesome. Thank you all for coming out tonight and supporting your local independent and Employee Owned bookstore. [applause] before we begin tonight speaking with Holly Jackson, american radicals, to mention other Great Program it coming up later this week we have romance writer here with boston globe love letters columnists Meredith Goldstein on thursday. Next week on tuesday we are hosting former poet laureate Robert Pinsky along with a few contributors for the new anthology, the mind. Next wednesday where hosting nancy for the atlas of boston history. We have many more events coming up and you can find more information on our website and in the brochures by the registers when to pick up your copy of the book tonight. Tonight were so glad to be hosting Holly Jackson for her new book american radicals how nineteenthcentury counterculture shaped the nation. Book page magazine calls the book magnificent saying this incisive and well