Speaking to the Vice President of strategy and communication at athos. You have been busy looking at this. Lets start with the coverage of the students decision, those students in florida who were in at school, many who survived that are able and awful atrocity last week. They are planning a march on washington these the. The question is will it make a difference . This terrible attack that happened last week at school. What it seems is that the students of not just this what it seems is that the students of notjust this school but the us stu d e nts of notjust this school but the us students are finding a voice here. Their target, they have in their crosshairs, is the National Rifle association of america. This is a strong body in america that looks out for the rights of people to bear arms, purchase guns. Arms, purchase guns. It is very fundamental to the american psyche that they should be able to have this freedom. But not only have previous president s including barack obama have
Has been reshaping its trading relationship with the rest of the world. Over the weekend china threatened to retaliate if the us went ahead with proposed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. So a high level un led meeting in geneva is looking at the way ahead. In many parts of the world the importance of multilateral trade deals can be seen in the number of people theyve lifted out of poverty. The World Bank Says the number of People Living in extreme poverty has halved since 1990 because of free trade. But President Trump has been wringing the changes. He pulled out of the Trans Pacific partnership which would have covered about 40 of the World Economy and is seeking major changes to the nafta free deal between mexico, the us and canada which is worth more than 1 trillion a year. Whilst President Trump says hes trying to secure american jobs the us chamber of commerce says 41 million of them depend on international trade. But the relationships behind it are showing signs of strain.
In 1968 women who worked for the Ford plant in Dagenham discovered their pay was significantly less than male workers doing the same work. They struck for equal and despite ridiculing in the press the strike won a near wage parity, and promoted the debate on equal pay for equal work in the UK
Marilyn Janet Beard, of Frankfort, passed away early in the morning of December 15, 2022, at Wesley Manor Health Care Pavilion. Marilyn was born in Carroll County on Oct. 1, 1931, to Charles Milton and Hildred Magdalene (James) Robertson. She was a 1949 graduate of Burlington High School. On Aug. 28, 1949, she married