2027488000. Mountain and pacific, 2027488001. You can also send us a text at 2027488003. You can also post to twitter and facebook. With thoseis morning numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. The total number of confirmed cases in this country approaching 1. 7 million. On the right side of the screen, there is that figure, the death 98,929, 98,000 929. Nearly 100 thousand americans have died. A special pullout on the usa today, these are 100 people out of the 100,000 americans who have died from the coronavirus. Different ages, races, and backgrounds they point out. The next 100 days could define a new era, right usa today. It did not take longer than 100 days for the virus to claim the lives of nearly 100,000 americans. Thenimaginable toll, since first person in the u. S. Died from covid19, which is thought to have been february 6 in california. Borne out by the diminished rates of new infections and deaths in may is not enough to keep the u. S. From reaching that grim mileston
Shierholz, former chief economist at the u. S. Department of labor earned the Obama Administration from 2013 to 2017. Now with the Economic Policy institute. Thank you for joining us this morning. Thanks for having me. Host wanted to talk about the impact of the pandemic on workers. What do you see . Its pretty grim. Its really bad right now. So as of mid april, the official Unemployment Rate had jumped to 14. 7 . But because of some misclassification and undercounting of people who had lost their jobs as a result of the virus, i think that a more accurate description of where we were in mid april is more like a 23. 5 Unemployment Rate. And weve had another five weeks of deterioration since then so its pretty grim. Really sachs which has a good Economics Research shop, they are forecasting that the Unemployment Rate average 30 in may and june. So its going to get worse before it gets better. Its pretty grim for workers out there right now. Host phone numbers at the bottom of the screen
Rep. Payne good morning. We are here to discuss the coronavirus also known as covid19. A moment to send my condolences to the American People who have lost loved ones during the crisis. We all know someone who has lost a loved one or someone close to us as well. Our condolences go out to the people. Specifically we are here to discuss the administration and femas response to the pandemic. As new states such jersey have been hit particularly hard. Im grateful to the fema employees i know are working hard to help us get through this. I think there is serious concerns about leadership coming from the white house during this pandemic as well as a need for greater level of transparency around new initiatives of fema. Joining me to discuss the administrations response, my colleague from the Home Security committee, val demings, representing florida and being a former First Responder herself, she is no stranger to disaster. Additionally we have a special guest online today, the former fema ad
Us with your first name and city , youate at 202 7488003 can also join the conversation on twitter or facebook. Yesterday follows the news that the Unemployment Rate the highest rate since the great depression. We want to hear from all of you. Becomingy about unemployed because of the pandemic. We begin with the debate on the floor. Here is David Schweitzer, the republican from arizona making the argument for the legislation. Phone calls last couple weeks talking to that Small Business person and you could almost hear the tears on the others of the call. You could hear the stress, the almost panic that they are about to hurt the very people they work with. Because their business is playing. A promise that payroll protections money that ran out a couple weeks ago. That and we engaged in a type of cruelty because we sat here and engaged, we are better than this. We knew what we had to do. Lets never do this again. For arizona, what we are about to vote on is 202,000 jobs. They shouldve h
Dobbs and his team. And all that has gone into mississippi being one of the states that is testing at a higher rate than virtually any other state. That has not received significant federal help. When you look at the hot spots in new york and new jersey and even to our neighbor to the west, louisiana, city of new orleans, the federal government put significant resources in there to help them testing. Understandably so. Whereas they had a significant peak that went up very, very quickly, mississippi appears to have at least for now slowed the spread of the virus and we are becoming more and more confident each day that for where we are currently plateaued that we will not be putting the kind of risk on our Health Care System as was the case in those hot spot areas. We are also seeing now that some of those hot spots are spreading out a bit. When you look at the boston metropolitan area, the detroit metropolitan area, and to a certain extent the chicago metropolitan area as well. Those a