recover all the jobs lost. now, the issue is not as simple as companies aren t hiring. many report they are. they would hire even more workers, but they can t find them. the theory was the fat checks were keeping people at home. but benefits expired and more people dropped out of the labor market altogether. it is an unprecedented mix of factors. parents can t find child care. kids are back in school, but there are not enough school bus drivers to get them there. wages are rising, especially for front line workers. companies must pay more to attract workers. john, it s not all about the money. in a census survey, 5 million people said they re not working because they re taking care of their kids now. 3 million are concerned about getting or spreading coronavirus. covid has completely changed how people think about their family,
unemployed right now. profits are up. wages are stagnant, and companies aren t hiring. companies have parked lots of billions of dollars overseas, all of those kinds of things. clearly the top-down, the trickle-down theory doesn t work very well for this country. republicans still want to subscribe to it for whatever reason. but that s the reason i m optimistic, though, i think pope francis said something pretty interesting. he was exhorting his parrish priests. he said go out and smell like the flock. he s saying it s important to get out among the people who don t have the privilege you have. i think as more senators do that, they become pretty convinced that extending unemployment benefits is the right thing to do. and i m hopeful that more and more of my colleagues understand that and begin to see that this is the right thing to do for the country. well, unfortunately, pope francis, the holy father wasn t born in the usa. he is not eligible to run this country. but he is cert
i was thinking this is great. this is terrific. i hope they all leave. then i will take the whole show. i have 45 minutes of abc air time. i didn t think they should have walked off. you got skin and fight for what you believe. you wouldn t walk off your own show, would you. no. but i would walk off yours. [ laughter ] i think mayor bloomberg, events a different view than that. 70% of the american people agree with me according to all the polls. [ applause ] [ laughter ] that s a lie! right now everybody is scared. they don t know what s going to happen. companies aren t hiring. banks aren t lending. if they have some kind of consistency that they know for two years here are the tax rates, that s going to loosen things up a little bit. that s the most important thing. [ applause ]
this is terrific. i hope they all leave. then i will take the whole show. i have 45 minutes of abc air time. i didn t think they should have walked off. you got skin and fight for what you believe. you wouldn t walk off your own show, would you. no. but i would walk off yours. [ laughter ] i think mayor bloomberg, events a different view than that. 70% of the american people agree with me according to all the polls. [ applause ] [ laughter ] that s a lie! right now everybody is scared. they don t know what s going to happen. companies aren t hiring. banks aren t lending. if they have some kind of consistency that they know for two years here are the tax rates, that s going to loosen things up a little bit. that s the most important thing. [ applause ]
this is terrific. i hope they all leave. then i will take the whole show. i have 45 minutes of abc air time. i didn t think they should have walked off. you got skin and fight for what you believe. you wouldn t walk off your own show, would you. no. but i would walk off yours. [ laughter ] i think mayor bloomberg, events a different view than that. 70% of the american people agree with me according to all the polls. [ applause ] [ laughter ] that s a lie! right now everybody is scared. they don t know what s going to happen. companies aren t hiring. banks aren t lending. if they have some kind of consistency that they know for two years here are the tax rates, that s going to loosen things up a little bit. that s the most important thing. [ applause ]