Casstevens, serving as president ime, and then you start to come down. Washington journal continues. Host scott burris joins us from philadelphia, serving at temple universitys research. Some 300 andris, 11 million some 311 Million People living under stayathome orders in their states. Do these are the stayathome orders created equal, or are more restrictive than others . Guest while, they are getting to look a lot like each other well, they are getting to look a lot like each other. I think the trend is basically, you stay at home, your kids dont go to school, your universities are closed, you can go out for exercise, but you so have to socialdistance during that time. Playgrounds are closed, team sports armband. You can go to the team sports are banned. You can go to the Grocery Store. You can go to the gun shop. Gas stations are open, pharmacies are dont try to get your hair done. As they say, gray is the new blonde. Host what would be the difference between a national stayathome or
Participates in the citys planning process. Every five years theres a Strategic Plan and we also prepare annual action plans. Director mcfadden presented that to you earlier in the fall and provided an update a couple months ago. That plan covers all of the departments work, all of its programs. We also have a fouryear planning cycle that was established by the dignity fund. This includes Community Needs assessment and fouryear funding plan. That process covers all Services Eligible to serve funds from the dignity fund. Its looking at about 70 million. And then the area plan were talking about today is similarly focused on mostly Community Based services. We get 7 million from the state for those services. Thats about 10 of the budget for the office of Community Partnerships. As much as possible, we try to align these efforts, and an example of that is the Needs Assessment from the dignity fund is the primary Needs Assessment informing this area plan. Similarly, the departments Strateg
Approve the agenda. So moved. Do we have a second . Any discuss in all in favor. Any opposed . Motion carries. May i have a motion to approve the february 5th, 2020, Meeting Minutes . Thank you. Do i have a second. Second. Any discussion . All in favor. Any opposed . Thank you. The motion carries. Now i would like to introduce our newest commissioner, nelson lum, wholl tell us about his background. Thank you. Mr. Chair, fellow commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, good morning, my name is nelson lum, and im the newly appointed member of this commission. Ive been a resident since 1961, and i went to school here. Upon graduation from George Washington high school, in 1966, i was soon notified by uncle sam that he had a special interest in me. I was inducted in the army where i volunteers to be a member of the paratrooper unit, and after training, i was assigned to kentucky with 101st airborne division. In 1967, my division was deployed to vietnam. Luckily, i returned in november 1968, wit
With Margaret Hoover is made possib by. Di additional f is provided by. Corporate funding is provided by. Dr. Tom frieden, glad to join you. Ine. You were the former director of the United States center r Disease Control and prevention. You are currently the president and the c. E. O. Of resolve to save lives, a Global Health initiative which works to prevent epidemics. Andou are joining us in american history. D moment so thank you for being he on Video Conference as we practice social distancing. I look forward to speaking with you. Dr. Frieden, i am two hours outside of new york city, and you are joining us from in your apartmentci in new yor, which was just this week declared the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States. The white house has saidhat anyone who leaves new york city should selfquantine for 14 days. Do you agree with that directive . New york city, unfortunately, is in what we know the acceleration phase of the pandemic. That means that cases are doubling very qu
Quote, dont go to crowded places. Look, thats going to slow the economy. We dont know by how much. Remember, friday, larry kudlow was on the show, told us that targeted stimulus is being considered. The fed is being urged to take steps, too. Were watching for any announcement. Heres the other big problem. The price of oil is tumbling. The saudis have launched a price war, promising to flood the world with a glut because russia wouldnt agree to production cuts. American drillers will take a huge hit. They cant make a profit at 30 bucks a barrel. 31. 89 right now. Look at this. Money pouring into treasury securities, pushing the yield way down to yet more record lows. Takes your breath away. We were down to 0. 31 at one stage. Now we are 0. 41 . Extraordinary. It has to be said, the United States is in a better position to weather this storm. That jobs report was a blockbuster. Look at italy. Its locking down a quarter of its population, locking it down. That lwill ensure a deep recessio