Cspanhe senate live on two. By the seniored policy analyst at the National Employment law project. Remind us what your group does and how you do it. Work to advance the interests of underpaid workers racism,ting structural erasing any quality, and Building Worker power. Nelp. Org for viewers who want to check them out online. 6. 6 million americans filed to run employment last week. Put that number in perspective for us. How does that compare to the worst week of the Great Recession . Guest it dwarfs the worst weeks of the Great Recession. It is worse than the 3 million that came before, which dwarfed the highest weekly claims number in history, which was 1982. In 1982, the number was around 680,000. The Great Recession never reach any of those numbers. Host what are the projections for this coming weeks numbers . Guest i hesitate to gas. It is possible that it could be even higher because a lot of people have been trying to get through and have not gotten their claims approved. There
[inaudible conversations] welcome to politics politics and prose so we will jump right in. Please silence your cell phones we will be recording audio and video. To ask the same questions there will be a signing behind the register and then he will sign them and just prop them against the surface when were done thank you. Finance editor from the New York Times reporter and editor at the wall street journal david enrich before that and a reporter in new york winning numerous journalism awards previously the author of the Spider Network how the scheming bankers pulled off in history which was the book of the year so his newest book dark towers donald trump and the epic trail of deception and its relationship with us president and then to demonstrate the evolution and character to become the global face of financial malfeasance please welcome david enrich to politics and prose. [applause] hello. Ive had a lot of book events im not kidding six people in the room this is awesome so i will ta
Last week. But that number in perspective for us. How does that compare to the worst weeks of the Great Recession . Guest it dwarfs the worst weeks of the Great Recession. It dwarfs the 3 million that came before which completely dwarfs the number in 1982. The week before was 3. 3 million and in 1982i believe the number was around 680,000. The Great Recession never reached any of those numbers. Host what are the projections for this coming week . Guest i cannot tell you that for sure. I hesitate to guess. Thatssible that get it could be higher because a lot of people have been trying to get through and have not gotten their claim approved and they are layoffs all over the united states. Host of that number, do we know how many are layoffs and people not having a job anymore versus furloughing and the fact that there will be a job promise on the other side . Guest from an insurance system perspective, a furloughing and they layoffs are pretty much identical as long as your boss tells yo
Who want to check them out online. 6. 6 million americans filed to run employment last week. Put that number in perspective for us. How does that compare to the worst week of the Great Recession . Guest it dwarfs the worst weeks of the Great Recession. It is worse than the 3 million that came before, which dwarfed the highest weekly claims number in history, which was 1982. In 1982, the number was around 680,000. The Great Recession never reach any of those numbers. Host what are the projections for this coming weeks numbers . Guest i hesitate to gas. It is possible that it could be even higher because a lot of people have been trying to get through and have not gotten their claims approved. There are continuing layoffs all over the united states. Host of that 6. 6 million number, do we know how many are layoffs and people not having a job anymore versus furloughing and the fact that there will be a job on the other side hopefully . Guest from the systems perspective, a furlough and la
Club. I want to take a second might be going to please silentio cell phones. We will be recording audio and video so thats a great incentive to try phones, and also to ask questions with open the floor up, theres a standing mic here in the middle when we do that after the talk here following the talk and the questions there will be assigning. We have books available behind the register. After the talk if you want to get up and purchase book and come back david would be more than happy to sign the. Finally after everything is said and done if you could collapse futures pictures about them up against a surface, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Tonight i have the pleasure of hosting david unhra, plaintiff entered at New York Times. He previously was a reporter and editor at the wall street journal in new york and london. Before that he was journal of European Banking london and has won numerous journalism awards including the 2016 award for feature writing. He is the author o