Fighting a preexisting condition known as brittle bone disease. It is thanks to the Obamabiden Administration and their work to pass the Affordable Care act that my son cannot be denied medical care is of his preexisting condition. I vote democrat because they fight for people like my son and the right for quality, Affordable Health care. The last two months of not been easy either. The coronavirus. As hurt workers in las vegas its clear to me that donald to do whatailed needs to be done to protect american. What about those who are not so lucky. Or not so lucky . Out for them and their families . That is why we need joe biden. Someone like us. Who grew up in a workingclass community, not part avenue. Joe will fight for us. Word describes the spirit of nevada. Resilience. With joe biden as the next president we will move past the darkness of the last four years to a brighter future. 24 days from now, nevada, we have a chance to answer this nations call for compassion, for faith, for re
I want to note our deep appreciation to the ford foundation, prudential financial, walmart, the Cigna Foundation and the Mastercard Center for growth for the support of opportunity in america series. At the Economic Opportunities program we focus on advancing strategies, policies and ideas to help working people and Small Businesses thrive. Working people and Small Businesses are facing extraordinary challenges today with over 26 million recently applied for Unemployment Benefits and millions of Small Businesses at risk of closing for good. At the Economic Program we recognize for too long, race, ethnicity, gender and race have played out side role in who has access to opportunity and to a shutout. We see today black and latino workers being most affected by unemployment, and by the health risks that come with being classified as an essential worker. We see black and latino owned Small Businesses facing much greater vulnerability to the economic devastation of covid19 and more challeng
That if government aid doesnt reach their small and midsized farms soon, it will make it nearly impossible for american farming to stay in the family. Its just hard, because ticking i worry about them all the time. Your good cholesterol is nice and high. Elizabeth ellis is a Nurse Practitioner. Come on. When we met her, she was tearing around her east texas farm with her fourlegged side arm named pistol. Social distancing is built into the landscape here and enforced by barbed wire, but the pandemic has reached elliss sparsely populated county, too. Im so sorry. And she finds herself administering covid tests ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im Sharyn Alfonsi. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking this portion of 60 minutes is sponsored by progressive insurance. Save when you bundle auto, home, or motorcycle insurance. Visit progressive. Com. Scott pelley as may begins, millions of americans delete another month of calendar events
A far better measure is the ten Million People who filed for jobless benefits in the last two weeks. Fed governor lockhart just told maria the jobless rate is already more like 10 . Clearly, we are in an employment crisis, and another report that comes up at 10 00 eastern will likely show the Services Sector in collapse. Thats a strong word to use but its accurate. Later this hour, we are going to talk to larry kudlow, the president s chief economic adviser. I will ask him how bad is it and he will spell it out. Look, with nearly 300 million americans under a stayathome order, the economy is shut down. Morgan stanley says that between now and june, the economy will shrink by 38 . That would be a depression, the likes of which we have not seen before. Travel, shut down. At the airport tsa checkpoints, they are processing two million fewer passengers every day. Thats down 93 from a year ago. Those flights that do take off, virtually empty. Public transit ridership, down 75 . Commuters ju
Former Vice President joe biden widened his delegate lead over senator Bernie Sanders for the democratic nomination. Wow, it is starting to look like biden is going to wander away with this thing. [ laughter ] after a Strong Performance in yesterdays socalled mini tuesday primary, former Vice President joe biden spoke last night from philadelphia and said, quote, tonight we are a step closer to restoring decency, dignity, and honor to the white house. And to anyone who says differently youre full of [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause seth at a press conference seems like mixed messages at a press conference yesterday President Trump encouraged americans to remain calm through the coronavirus outbreak and added it will, quote, go away. I dont know, ive been super calm for three years now and youre still here. [ laughter ] thats right [ cheers and applause thats right, President Trump is encouraging americans to stay calm during the coronavirus outbreak you know, like he alway