Terrific conversation with the terrific guest on an interesting topic, so thank you for your presence this morning. Y name is Eric Farnsworth i head the Washington Office of the counsel of the americas and the America Society. It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to review this book today, and to talk a little bit about the latino immigrant experience in the United States. Our guest is ray suarez, who has written a really terrific book entitled latino americans the 500year legacy that shaped a nation. Its a companion to the Ground Breaking pbs series on latino americans. In barely 250 pages, ray takes the reader through the broad sweep of Latino History in the United States, even before there was a United States, from the spanish explorers to the modern day. Its a majestic effort, in my view. Seeking to discover and highlight the history and future of the latino experience in the United States, and to put in context in order to build a broader appreciation for latino experience. It
Launching that service here in the u. S. Later this month. We are staying at home and we want our groceries and other purchases delivered and quickly. And we are on that story throughout the program today. As for the overall market, dead flat following a selloff on tuesday but keep in mind the dow and s p are up 40 from their march lows and the nasdaq is up 50 since then. Pretty impressive. President trump says he will pressure governors to reopen schools in the fall. This is a major step in getting the economy back on track. Kids go back to school, parents can then go back to work. That, of course, will be an issue for sure in the election, where joe biden has the lead in all of the polls, if you believe them, and even some wall street firms are apparently preparing for a biden win. But we have a democrat pollster coming up in a few minutes who says the race is a lot closer than the polls would indicate. Just wait until you hear what congresswoman ilhan omar wants to do to the economy
Recalled the tires number of daily coronavirus cases and sanctions the use of an anti malaria drug despite warnings about the risks. And israels just scrap its an exaggeration plans the u. S. Envoy to the middle east towards the project will threaten the 2 state solution and regional peace. Welcome to the program a new standoff could be brewing between the United States iran and venezuela over a shipment of millions of dollars worth of fuel 5 Iranian Oil Tankers could be just days away from arriving in venezuela in a bid to ease fuel shortages there both countries are sanctioned by the u. S. And the white house says its considering a response to the shipment venezuela says its military will escort the tankers assoon as they enter its territory now ship tracking shows the 1st of the 5 tankers left the iranian port city of banda bass in march analysts say theyre between 89 and 99 percent full judging by how theyre sitting in the water the 1st tanker fortune is expected to arrive in venez
Like in the fall. And mothers messages. New moms tell us about living throsi a their hopes for the future. Mothers never give up hope, but first, heres todays effe vaccine and unless something very unexpected happens, our viral enemy will be with us for many months and possibly many years. The former head of the cdc warned the scope of this pandemic is unprecedented. The worst thing that can happen is three to four weeks from now we see the numbers are really going up and then we have to decide whether or not were going to reverse course and ask people to stay home even more. Nearly 3. 17 Million People filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. It brings the total to more than 33 Million People over the past seven weeks as lockdown orders started. The president is taking heat for not wearing a mask during his tour of a mask factory in arizona. I actually did have one. I put a mask on i had a mask on for a period of time. We didnt see you in a mask. I cant help it if you didnt see me.
Deaths from the virus slow the Prime Minister warns its still too soon to ease lock down measures and after months of protests a plan to tackle lebanons financial woes but will it be enough to pull the country out of its economic spiral. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to batter economies around the world another 3800000 people are filed for unemployment in the u. S. This past week this means an unprecedented 30000000 americans have now sought on Employment Benefits in just 6 weeks and the numbers are still rising the jobless rate hovered around 3. 5 percent between the summer and february but in march it jumped to a 2 and a half year high to 4. 4 percent equating to more than 7000000. 00 people as state governments now try to kick start the economy their relaxing containment restrictions more than half of u. S. States including florida will partially reopen by the end of the week. As the Johns Hopkins that board shows at least 1000000 people in the u. S. Have contracted the viru