80 of folks in puerto rico support the board can whats the problem of actually putting it to the people for a vote . The most recent poll i saw on the board suggests that perhaps its 4951, or 50 50 folks opposing. If thats the case in which the problem of actually putting it to the people on a vote . Like congress did in 1951 . That would render something illegitimate perhaps. As regards to your proportion of Economic Development, before we get to that conversation we need to make sure that energy costs go down in puerto rico. We need to make sure the board is credible. Its incredible the local government right now came up with a 9. 1 billion budget, okay, in the face of this crisis. In other words, that are suspending payments on the debt that they our still spending like crazy. Thats something that is unjustifiable. It really takes away credibility or whatever credibility was left from the puerto rican government. Thats something that has to be dealt with in a meaningful way moving f
Act a year or so ago. Tell us how that impacted all and what that means for every one here. Sure. The pregnancy discrimination act is a part of title vii of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Congress passed the pregnancy discrimination act in 1973 after a Supreme Court ruling, and last year, about a year and half of those a case before the Supreme Court, young versus ups, and in that case peggy young had been working for ups. She had a normal pregnancy. So there was, she had no reticular medical issues with her pregnancy particular. Her doctor recommended that she can later in the pregnancy, not live more than 20 pounds. 20 pounds. Which if youre a driver for ups, you can imagine that might be a problem. She asked for an accommodation for light duty, gps said we dont give accommodations for people who have anything other than an on the job injury. So this is your only option is to not work, and you can come back after your pregnancy but thats your only option. So she sued under the pregnan
President obama thats great. Thank you. [applause] thank you, its an honor to be here. When i was growing up in rwanda, i used to be in the forest collecting firewood for my parents. Other children in africa are facing the same challenges, they are involved in a number of activities to help their parents just to prepare their meal instead of going to school. So as i was growing up, i kept thinking about something that i can do to help these families have access to alternative fuels they can use to replace charcoal wood that they have been using for many years. So i came up with an idea whereby we collect wood and turned turn them into an affordable, environmentally Friendly Product that people can use, its a great cooking fuel which can improve health and sanitation in homes. Its been two years and we have employed more than 25 people, giving them jobs and we are trying to expand to other areas of the country so that we can continue to improve sanitation as well as providing alteshtive
But i know its still hard sometimes and frustrating. Lets go back to the earlier question i asked. What do you find to be some of the biggest hurdles for your success . And are there policies that either your governments could be pursuing or the United States in conjunction with your governments could be pursuing that would really make this process if not easy, then at least a little smoother . And are there questions or concerns that you have in terms of how more established businesses like facebook, how they might be able to interact with startups like yours . So why dont we well go in reverse order this time. I think theres been many challenges along the way and in our case, we tried to disrupt many preconceptions. In the beginning, people were like, how are you going to train them, how will you get a young woman who went to a Public High School who isnt very good, to become competitive in the labor market. I think weve overcome those and weve proved that you can learn in months ins
Youre watching bloomberg s lets take a look at markets here today. Currently closed for a lunch break. Heres how they went in the morning session. Just fractionally down. today on the hang seng. We are seeing a turnaround youre watching bloomberg west. Im emily chang, this is bloomberg west. The d. O. J. Picks away apples legal argument of not being able to yahoo adds two directors to the board. Can they give the company a much needed lift. Amazon goes to hollywood. Well hear from the head of the amazon studio. First, u. S. Government strikes back in a legal fight thats expanded beyond apple including dozens now of the worlds Biggest Tech Company taking stand of the protection of encryption. The d. O. J. Is seeking to narrow the focus back to one iphone 5c. Apple opposition to a federal court order to unlock one of the season bernardino shooters phone. Apple wants desperately needs this case not to be about one isolated iphone. That there is probable cause to believe there is evidence