Mom. You are also an economist. Is there an actual economic benefit to inspiring girls to reach higher . Absolutely. I fall into the camp that the single greatest underutilized resource we have as a nation is women and girls. 50 of the talent tool pool, the brains, the innovation and creativity, that is underrepresented across the board and it is its not a womans issue to help get women and girls into science and technology and business and go. Its a societal issue. If we could figure out a way to totally empower half of the brains in america, imagine how much better and more productive we would be . You think a woman president can do that better than a male president . I do. I think if a person is committed to making that happen well get that done but on balance it is powerful. You cant underestimate the value of a role model. Great. Well, governor raimondo, thank you very much. Weve run out of time. Time to wrap up. Next id like to welcome governor Susan Glasser with Governor Terry m
At home, setting up a battle on capitol hill with republicans over spending. We will spend to economist dean baker. Then to chasing the scream. it is now 100 years since drugs were first banned in the United States, and i went on a journey to figure out why they were banned in the first place what caused this addiction and what are the alternatives, and what i discovered is almost everything we need we think we know about the subject is wrong. Johann hari on the first and last days of the war on drugs from the governments targeting of Billie Holiday to new efforts to decriminalize all drugs. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Islamic State has released a video showing a captured jordanian Fighter Pilot being burned alive inside a cage. First lieutenant moa alkasasbeh was captured in december when his f16 crashed in Northern Syria during an airstrike as part of the u. S. Led campaign against the Islamic
Worlds biggest shipping companies, who pride themselves in getting things where they need to be and doing it on time. It was a sparse christmas for some this year. Shippers and retailers missed the delivery targets because of an avalanche of lastminute holiday orders. Ups noted on its website that it missed some targets, and will start resuming delivery. There something about ups logisitics . Music not so sweet this morning. Ups and fedex did damage control over all these late deliveries. The company had a massive influx of online shopping, but expecting it was not good enough. We expect our average volume between thanksgiving and christmas will be up about 8 . We will pray for good weather and hopefully get all the procrastinators presents to their homes on time. Apologies abound this morning. Ups said in a statement, the company is, quote, making every effort to get packages to their destination. The volume of packages exceeded the capacity of our Network Following christmas. Fedex s
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Black box stops pinging. Melissa apple on a downward slide. An internal memo says the worse may be yet to come. Consumers want larger models with cheaper price tags than the iphone. Facebook and google are snapping up companies, apples giant war chest lies dormant of. We have Charlie Gasparino and marketing expert bruce turkel with us. This is a feignful memo to come out in the midst of the samsung trial. They basically made a full screen to show to the whole company, Consumers Want what we dont have and theyre talking about phones less than 300 with screens bigger than four inches. How embarrassing is this. This is embarrassing but if you watched fox business since last year this is what apple is worried about over the past year. We reported exclusively that apples board was worried about the pace of technological advavancnce in the company a innovation and whether tim cook, the new ceo that replaced steve jobs, whether he had the chops to do that sort of innovation and this is a func