The untold true story of americas middleclass. Guest thank you for having me. Host how do you define the middle class . Guest there are so many ways you can define the middle class and some new ways people have over time. Sete it as an aspirational of Economic Security items that americans want to have to make their lives feel safe and secure , and to pass a better life onto their children. I defined middleclass as someone who is able to buy their own home, their own car, send their kids to school come a safer retirement , save for retirement. Stablel people feel more through tough economic times. If you can build enough wealth up to buy those things, i think in america we would call you middleclass. Are strivingle who for that security are aspirational middleclass. Host how far back in our history does the use of the term middleclass go to refer to economic success . Guest we think of the middle class as quintessentially american, but it is relatively new term in terms of popular news
The dow as the president says the u. S. Government should take a cut of its deal. Apple inches toward a 2 trillion market cap. The price were looking for to hit that level is 4. 6777 about 27 above where we are now. Apple is up 1 today gold topping 2,000 an ounce for the first time ever. The precious metal is up as the market attempts to price in a postpandemic recovery, there are new signs the road back could be longer and bumpier than experts think steve is digging into the data good afternoon. Even if the forecast of economists for the strong second half ebound pans out, the u. S. Economy is still going to be in the e kwif lenquivalent of a reb year end the Unemployment Rate forecast decline from 11. 1 now to 9. 8 by december. Look at those numbers and the 9. 8 Unemployment Rate would make it the third highest among recessions we have done a good job of taking it down from 15 . It would be e clipted by the surgeon jobless followed by the 81 and 08 recessions. Charlie evans talking t
Our goal for this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful and deliberate consideration of your qualifications for the positions that youve respectfully been nominated to fill. The witnesses have provided written responses which you all will have. As youll see, mr. Miller graduated from George Washington university. He was commissioned as an infantry officer, he has a masters in National Security studies and a graduate of the Naval College of staff. Began his military career as a infantry man in the army and served in the district of col n Columbia National guard. He served with the fifth special forces group. He participated in combat operations in afghanistan and iraq. Upon retiring from the army in 2014, he worked as a defense contractor before serving as the special assistant to the president and senior director of counterterrorism at the National Security council. He currently serves as the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for special operations and for combat
Americas Cable Television company as a Public Service and brought to today by your television provider. The Senate Intelligence committee met to consider the nomination of Christopher Miller to be the director of the National Counterterrorism center in peter to be the general counsel to the office of the director of National Intelligence. The two nominees were asked about Russian Election interference, interrogation tactics, the fisa application process and whistleblower protections. They were also questioned related to the recent deployment of federal Law Enforcement agents in u. S. Cities experiencing ongoing protests. [silence] the goal for this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful and deliberate consideration of your qualifications to the position that you respectively have been nominated to fill. The witnesses have provided written response from the committee and its members which you all will have in this morning the members will be able to ask any additional
Experiencing ongoing protests. [silence] the goal for this hearing is to enable this committee to have a thoughtful and deliberate consideration of your qualifications to the position that you respectively have been nominated to fill. The witnesses have provided written response from the committee and its members which you all will have in this morning the members will be able to ask any additional questions and hear directly from the nominees. Mr. Miller graduated from George Washington university in commission as an infantry officer in 1987, he has a masters in National Security studies from the Naval War College and also graduated at the Community Staff and army war college. His military career as an enlisted infantryman in the army reserve in 1983 and served in the district of Columbia National guard. In 1993 christopher transferred to special forces and served for the fifth special forces group and participated in combat operations and iraq and retiring from the army in 2014 he wo