we must call and politely ask for help and i would be so easy with confidence. this month, announced a new program that is committed to ending homelessness in five years giving an interview on fox, said in the last six years, the city has moved 120,000 people from shelters to affordable housing but the problem remains dire. each night, more than 50,000 people are sleeping in new york city shelters. more than a third of whom are children. most of the homeless are black or latino. the city estimates that another 36,000 homeless are sleeping on the streets and homeless advocates believe that number could be significantly higher. eric: thank you so much. sandra: let s bring in our a team now, happy new year to him, chairman and fox news contributor to jessica tarlov in the house. coming over from the fbn. happy new year s to all of you
about the next variant. so that s in play right here. just remember, we re at 0% interest rates. still printing between us and european central bank $250 billion a month that has fueled markets and a lot of bubbles out there. so that s in play and a big part of the equation that eventually there will be repercussions for. sandra: that s why charlie gasp at fbn, a good friend, possibly the biggest threat to the market is not ohm or any other variant, the possibility of a tightening money supply, right? rising interest rates if it keeps going to way it does. so gary, great to see you. thank you for joining us. my pleasure. happy holidays to you. sandra: so want to get to the u.s.? better get a negative covid test. jeff flock is watching new flight restrictions take off.
[laughing] sandra: there was a little bit of a shaking of the head. john: sometimes you can take the boy out of rock and roll but you can t take the rock and roll out of the boy. sandra: i love it. on to cotton prices because they are on the rise and clothing costs could soon be going up forcing retailers to increase prices just in time for christmas. fbn s live at a cotton farm in louisiana. grady. sandra, john can do the dance next. cotton prices up 50% from the beginning of this year. that s a 10-year high. unfortunately that could mean clothing prices going up just before the holidays. a cotton farmer here in louisiana. when we talk about the cotton prices going up, how much are we talking in terms of the end product like jeans and t-shirts? your typical pair of jeans is probably about two pounds of cotton talking about a dollar, dollar 50 jump of raw materials.
so we don t actually anticipate these disruptions. rachel: joining me now to react mike rowe he is the ceo of mike rowe works and narrator and executive producer of fbn how america works. welcome, mike. first of all, you have had some of your own travel delays as you were trying to get to the studio. but, let me just ask you this: because i thought that the silver lining of this whole pandemic was going to be that everyone was going to turn into mike roe that we were all going to begin to appreciate the people who make this country work. the people who keep us safe. the people that keep us healthy out of the hospital. somebody s it interferes with the political agenda or some big donors like big pharma. they throw those workers to the curb like garbage which by the way isn t getting picked up either. no. and i think there is more to it than that. there is something in us. it s the fault in our stars, you know, where we begin to resent the very thing we rely upon.
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