Hockey so night and day to get it right for the 1st time since recovering from cope at 19 the u. K. Prime minister addresses media on efforts to battle a pandemic that. Autumn months of protests a plan to tackle the financial woes but will it be enough to pull the country out of its economic spiral. And put those birthday parties been postponed South Koreans will have to wait until next month to celebrate. In the United States where the economic numbers just keep getting worse the u. S. Labor department has released yet another bleak unemployment report more than 3800000 americans filed for benefits in just the past week taking the total number of job listable them 30000000. 00 over the last 6 weeks the Unemployment Rate hovered around 3. 5 percent between december and. February this year but in march it jumps to a 2 of the hof year high of 4. 4 percent thats roughly will than 7000000 people the state governments now begin to restart their economies the easing lockdown measures more th
Condition, the family of tech and publicpolicy under policy issues in the United States and around the world. These policy briefings provided opportunity to hear directly from our nations top scholars on the pressing issues facing the road during this difficult time. As we all unite to confront the challenges of the worldwide pandemic, conversations like this have never been more important. We will be taking on these questions today so i encourage you to submit yours using the q a button located at the bottom of your screen. Todays briefing is from condoleezza rice, the senior fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, she served as a 66 secretary of state of the United States the first africanamerican woman to hold the post, she was also president george w. Bushs National Security advisor, we look forward to her next director of the Hoover Institution this fall, welcome, thank you for joining us. Good morning. Youre an expert in the International System, how do you think the I
Thank you all for being here today. m going to go out of order, senator young has a related hearing to be at, i want to be sure hes able to be on the record before we begin. Senator young i first want to get on the record and thank our subblingt matter experts. If theres anything we legislative leaders ought to be doing an more broadly our government leaders, its listening to Public Health experts. Thank you so much and the experts in some of these discrete areas that will be impacted by the coronavirus. I regret that in minutes i have another meeting that pertains to this important topic. I just want to publicly express my intention to submit for the record some important questions i have for you related to the increasingly integrated supply chains that we now have between various enterprises and i guess this is this situation will create certain vulnerabilities uring times of what is now a pandemic. I have some questions related to supply Chain Mapping that im hoping someone will be
Thank you very much we just attended a very important Task Force Meeting on the virus, that everybody is talking about all over the world no matter where you go that is whats on peoples minds and we are going to take care of it happened to be taken care of the American Public and the american economy, we are going to be asking tomorrow we are seeing the senate. We are going to be meeting with past republicans rich mcconnell everybody, and discussing a possible payroll tax cut or relief substantial relief very substantial relief it is a big number. We are going to be talking about hourly wage earners getting help so that they can be in a position where that nikki never miss a paycheck. Will be working with companies and small companies, Large Companies a lot of companies. So that they dont get penalized for something that is not their fault. It is not their fault, our countrys fault. This was something that we were thrown into and we have been handling it very well. The big decision was
Of the coronavirus on the supply chain Small Businesses bid the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee heard about the drug supply chain glands on china and what Small Businesses need to stay afloat through the outbreak. This is an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here today. m going to go out of order, senator young has a related hearing to be at, i want to be sure hes able to be on the record before senator young i first want to get on the record and thank our subblingt matter experts. If theres anything we legislative leaders ought to be doing an more broadly our government leaders, its listening to Public Health experts. Thank you so much and the experts in some of these discrete areas that will be impacted by the coronavirus. I regret that in minutes i have another meeting that pertains to this important topic. I just want to publicly express my intention to submit for the record some important questions i have for you related to the increasingly integrated s