jewish students association. on behalf of the chat of jewish students association and all chatting students of like to welcome you to our campus this evening for this important and timely conversation with bari weiss, author of the book how to fight anti-semitism. as students at shadow our education is informed byis the universities mission to prepare graduates to be informed and engaged citizens in their communities and to recognize and respect diversity of culture, identity and opinion. both of these are on display this evening but it is this last idea, the respect for diversity of culture, identity and opinion that is needed more than ever in our society today. the tragedy at tree of life, the response to this book and the amazing tourniquet by all of you for this important conversation show why. bari will be available to personalize copy of her books of the back of the stage after the discussion. if you don t have a copy yet, the bookshop will bee sold them at that time
sweeping pieces of legislation in most recent history, set to impact american life on many, many levels. by now you probably heard about the $1,400 stimulus checks, which could start going out via direct deposit next week but the bill is also expected to add 7 million jobs to the economy. it s designed to cut child poverty in half, specifically helping black and hispanic families through the tax credits and family aid and it will fund nationwide vaccine distribution that should help bring an end to this covid pandemic. to underscore that, we just learned in the last hour, the biden administration will announce plans to buy 100 million additional vaccines from johnson & johnson. we should make it clear, that while there is a lot of hope and a lot of potential surrounding the new covid bill, we will not be sure how effective it s going to actually be until it s put into action. i want to bring in garrett haake on capitol hill. also with us, chief white house correspondent for n
All right. Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here. I am jenna mali dillon, im joined by my great friend jerry cohen who is the vice chair of the commission, and i call the final meeting of the Unity Reform Commission to order. I would just like the members to join for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, i now ask Patrice Taylor to call the roll please. Thank you, madam chair. Mr. Baker . Here. Ms. Bower . Here. Mr. Burns . Here. Ms. Flores . Congresswoman fudge . Yes. Ms. Harris . Here. Mr. Wentz. Yes. Mr. Coats. Here. Ms. Lewis. Here. Mr. Mnewport. Here. Ms. Turner . Here. Mr. Weaver . Here. Mr. Web. Here. Mrs. Omalley dillon . And mr. Cohen. Here. We are missing a few Commission Members but we certainly have a quorum. And i would like to start today by acknowledging chairman perez whos here, were very thankful for his participation. Good morning, everyone. I want to thank all of you for your hard work.
Greater than anybody ever anticipated and im sure the democrats would like to blunt that by shutting down government if the country shuts down, which could very well be, the budget should be handled a lot differently than it has been handled over the last long period of time, many years. But if for any reason it shuts down, the worst thing is what happens to our military. Neil now the president will be off to pennsylvania today to tout that tax reform, to tout what is happening to the markets, to tout all the promises of bonuses and jobs from the likes of apple and some others. Fox businesss hillary vaughn, with the latest on all of the above. Hillary, what do you have . Reporter hey, neil. Well apple says they are going to bring home a big chunk of that 252 billion they have sitting overseas and they say it is all because of President Trumps tax law that lets them pay a onetime tax of 38 billion to bring it home. Making it one of the biggest payments of its kind to the u. S. Governmen
Somewhere between debating somewhere between 0. 25, 0. 5. Mark the British Chamber of commerce says the weaker pound is failing to boost u. K. Growth. We speak to the head of economics. This is bloomberg surveillance. Im mark barton in london. Check out european stocks today, on track for a weekly decline, continuing that trend of alternating between weekly drops and gains. Down today by 0. 2 on the european benchmark. Above 1. 20. Rising for a fifth day today, best run since august last year, aside from admitting the Exchange Rate and volatility is problematic. Draghi declining to talk about any action to reverse the course. Highest for the euro against the dollar since 2015. Look at the u. S. 10year yield. Down by a basis point. Lowest since november 8 last year. You know what happened on that day, the election in the u. S. Geopolitical tensions, Hurricane Irma, driving yields lower across europe as well. Nymex crude is lower today. It is headed for the first weekly gain since july a