Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. Im hari sreenivasan. We begin in greece, where the results of a nationwide vote tomorrow could keep the debt ridden economy afloat or cut off desperatelyneeded Financial Support from its european creditors. Voters from both camps have been holding massive rallies. If greeks vote no to adopting a set of severe austerity measures, the country would lose any chance of getting financial help. If greeks vote yes to the cuts, the country could get some debt relief. The referendum comes after greece failed to pay a 1. 6 billion euro debt payment, shuttered its
The countrys new finance minister trying to figure out how to keep greece in the euro zone. This is al jazeera live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. South Carolinas Senate is in pegs right now, and it is set to give final passage to a deal that would take the Confederate Flag off of the capitol building. In the end the senate overoverwhelmingly 373 to take down the flag. The house takes up the measure later this week. Diane eastabrook is live in the capitol. Good morning. Reporter good morning. It could be a bit more contentious in the house, stephanie. The House Democrats just had a press conference a little while ago, asking members to follow the lead of the senate and pass this bill. There are amendments being proposed in the house bill that would replace the Confederate Flag with another potential confederate banner possibly an infantry flag. The house members are concerned that this bill could get tied up and we might not see something get passed this week. Diane voting on whe
David we are in an odd moment where many of the technical issues that needed to get sorted out, including between Energy Secretary and his iranian counterpart, both of m. I. T. Sitting there for days, trying to work out questions of development are at a largely solved those, all the big issues that need to be resolved now are basically political positions. They are decisions that either the americans or the iranians are unwilling to go make to get to that last stage. There a great deal of end of bargaining brinksmanship going on here. We have hit one of those moments where nobody believes in the deadlines anymore because the americans think the deadline that was set in congressional legislation, this thursday, was being used against them by the iranians, who figured out that the americans might give up more simply to limit the amount of time that congress could review the agreement this summer. Secretary kerry said, im willing to go with a longterm review that is required if we go past
Then they wouldnt be waiting in the middle of the town. We all have requirements on how long we can block thank you. And just if i could, just one more question on distracted driving. Right now only one state received our funding for the distracted driving grant which we would really like to have changed. Theres a ton of money sitting there and we have an emerging problem. Thats why senator hoven and i have sponsored a bill with senator booker to change that criteria to get that money out to states for engsducation efforts. I thought id ask you, ms. Ault, whats kinds of technology . We know thats drivers are doing things they shouldnt do in the cars. A lot of them have admitted to this in sorry have as and ss ss survey surveys. Weve had more than 3,000 People Killed that we know of from distracted driving. Again, these are individuals making decisions on their own. Are there any technologies you think from the Car Companies that could be helpful with this . I can speak not from the Car
Isnt this something that is just absorbed over time as more employers employees make money, they spend more and then youll have to rehire. Isnt this a red herring argument . And my second question is, why dont we just increase minimum wage or do some index so were constantly increasing wages and we dont have to have this discussion. With the minimum wage l on the increase economists by and y large agree that there is a negative impact overall on the economy, particularly on like the 18 to 25 demographic where you see recordem levels of n unemployment. Thats because they do not get the entry level jobs. Employers are not hiring those low level jobs. I wo i would disagree that its a red herring. Theres a real impact on the businesses in this country. I with due respect, i completely disagree with her ngs of readings of the economic studies which have come to conclude theres no significant job loss associated with raising minimum wages. And while it is true that youth hat yout unemploymen