So the question am I Ok is my health good and exactly the same applies to an economy you can t look at any one statistic as a substitute for doing your job so let s look at the American economy yes unemployment is low but the quality of the jobs which is what matters for most people has been deteriorating for years what I mean that paying lower wages these jobs that we now have than they used to they have fewer benefits with them than they used to they are less secure than they used to be they are more part time and temp jobs relative to secure long term full time jobs now we even have a measure of that which the president carefully avoids ever mentioning it s been a measure developed at Cornell University one of the leading higher institutions of learning in this country it s called the job quality index j Q. And it looks at jobs to get a sense of their quality and if I had a graph behind me I d show you a line that goes straight down indicating that the quality of jobs in the United
That the president does not have the authority for a war with Iran she says must ask for congressional approval if he intends to extend the conflict Kelsey Snell n.p.r. News the Capitol secretary of state says the u.s. Is prepared for possible retaliation including a cyber attack in response to the American air strike in Baghdad N.P.R. s Pam Fessler reports officials are advising companies to pay special attention to threats against critical infrastructure Christopher Krebs head of the department of homeland security cyber security agency tweeted this morning that quote Given recent developments it s a good time for u.s. Businesses to brush up on Iranian cyber threats he said special attention should be paid to systems that control manufacturing facilities oil refineries and the energy grid u.s. Officials are also concerned about retaliatory attacks against American interests overseas but a cyber attack is one way or Iran could inflict serious damage inside the United States warnings
Wallace this is a huge impact on the wildlife and the system here in Australia as well as family of the man critically hurt in Saturday s machete attack at a New York Hanukkah celebration says he may not regain consciousness you re listening to a.b.c. News value news now with crying in the. News Radio 1091 f.m. One o 1.50 does it vary says Sunny to wavy that day 45 will be the high 40 right now and how soon the full forecast is coming up now the latest from the w b i l 24 hour broadcast center 29 t. Now history will go down as the deadliest Baltimore has seen in 2020 so often violent start as well w.b. As Robert Lang and Kramer are here with the details right this morning about our city police are investigating a shooting at happened along the block police in Amistad along Gay Street around 4 this morning the homicide total for 21000 in Baltimore stands at least $348.00 with the latest victim a man who died on New Year s Eve and injuries he suffered in a shooting earlier last month th
Since we re the result of a chain of events the legal profession has made progress but still has a long way to go to achieve full gender equality that s from the Law Society has it celebrates 100 years of women solicitors and women being able to sit on juries and serve as magistrates However they re still not reaching senior positions in sufficient numbers Fiona Hill s a partner at the law firm or Blatche in Southampton we finally and delightfully have managed to get just a vet 50 percent of the perfect thing profession on and women and with the new entries we ve got a staggering 61 percent of women starting each year which is lovely because hopefully that will then bring forward to more senior positions in the future more on women in the law with Sam in the next hour on this program a young girl from Hampshire has turned santa clause for a group of elderly patients who won t be home in time for Christmas 4 year old Abigail McDonald saved her pocket money to buy gifts for patients at
Atticus I just found out about houseboats what is a do way that last one was confusing because he pronounced the word duet as if he were speaking French do a dad Sterling asked one Sunday afternoon out of the blue What s a shit of how is a ship of you. I love watching Sterling as he comes into contact with the world through words it pleases me to see him puzzling over and parsing his thoughts and experiences in this way I think of the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass who showed us in his autobiography narrative of the life that language is a source not only of immense insight and pleasure but also a key to freedom today s poem is a sale as sale. Ass by Dora Malik n.h. Line of the poem a statement is made and then the very same letters are reconfigured so that something else can be said post becomes stop claims curse becomes claims cures reading the poem aloud I feel a little like one of the witches and Macbeth who speaks nonsense and ends up making sense yes words allow us to sa