This is kathleen from minnesota. Good morning. What is the state of Small Business in your Small Community . Everything is drivethru, but you cannot go in and sit down and eat. Its at disney had 30 two thousand jobs, so everything brickandmortar, you have to wear masks if youre going into the store. We are barely hanging on. The United States department of agriculture stopped giving out School Buses School lunches out on the buses. Host as we look at the state of Small Business including mississippi, what is your message to washington at this point . Where is Mitch Mcconnell . He put the bill on the table to be passed and he left town. Nancy pelosi put up the heroes act, and nobody is talking about recession. Nobody talking about people in the hospital that need ppe. This is dire. Just sitting at home ever since january of 2020, when the first covid19 came into mississippi. Ost thank you we want to hear from Small Business owners, employees, shoppers, folks like kathleen who live in mi
The freeman foundation. By judy and peter blum kler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected need and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. A breakthrough in the race for covid19 vaccine. Nearly 95 effective. Pretty intensrelief. It has been a arng, cap long, hard run. It could be easier to deliver to the millions who ne the u. S. Is still worst hit by the pandemic. Infectious past million. We are expecting president elect joe biden to speak in wilmington as he moves toward with his transition into the white house. Sweden rethinks its approach to the pandemic. Prthe minister says this is the new norm. Dont go to gyms, dont go to libraries, do not have cancel them. The french president phones the new yorkimes accusing them of legitimizing violence. Well hear from the journalist he spoke to. Very warm welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and all across the globe. Weil start in delaware where president elect joe biden is about to start spe
From wilmington, delaware, this is 35 minutes. Vice president elect harris good afternoon. President elect biden and i just met with some of our nations business and union leaders. Together they represent millions of workers across our country. And some of americas leading technology, auto and retail companies. We had an important conversation about the impact that this pandemic has had on workers. Especially essential workers, frontline workers, who have risked their own health and the health of their families and many whom have given their own lives to keep us safe and keep our economy running. And we all know that this pandemic and this recession have hit communities of color particularly hard. Black americans and latinos are threetimes as likely to contract covid as others, and more likely to die. Native americans are more than four times as likely to be hospitalized as others. And last month, the Unemployment Rate for black americans was almost twice the rate of others. And we hav
For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
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