rise. and in new jersey, the courier news, has a front page feature on lawmakers considering offering incentives to businesses that allow their staff to work from home. a broad outline explains the state would offer tax breaks to companies that buy satellite offices in new jersey to serve as occasional work spaces. this way employers would be considered new jersey workers, instead of the state where the company is based. interesting. and coming up for all the political division in this country, one thing americans can agree on is being an nfl fan. we have new polling on the league s popularity ahead of the playoffs. and before we go to break, morning joe reporter daniela pierre bravo has a look at some of the pieces featured on know your value right now. daniela? good morning, we have a lot going on on know your value.
you are seeing things for offering incentives whatever you destroy you get a certain plus-up in salary or a bonus to return to the fight. if you have to beg people to return to the fight with money you are in a desperate situation if you are the russian military. separately from that looking at the big picture, down here in the south or toward the east and the south what you will see the russians try to do is essentially bisect these portions in the donbas region. they would like to take the donbas region because it would give them something they can claim to be an achievement. vladimir putin has said his original motivation for going in here was to retake donbas. if he doesn t have that, he doesn t even have a bargaining chip through which he can negotiate. secondly and more importantly in the south is where i want to shift to, the ukrainian military putting up an intense fight here. this is where the russians went in weeks two, three and four, advancing to here and were blocked. you
and the national league of cities, that their vaccination sites to donate more than $1 million of ppe to help run the sites. and in our own facilities, 32,000 companies across the country we ve been working with our employees to help get them vaccinated. offering incentives, offering timeoff. getting nurses into the facility. as you mentioned one member offered free trips to vegas. if you get vaccinated, you re thrown in a pool for that. we ve done everything we can. we ve incentivized them in any way we can. most of those remaining tell us if the government mandates it, fire me. and so, we ve tried everything we can. and so what we re asking is simple. we want a small delay to help prepare for implementation. and we re also asking the president to amend the order to include a testing option. so, if people at the end of the
fashion to get there. so sorry for your loss and so thankful for your guidance to us. new evidence vaccine mandates work. united airlines says 90% of its staff has been vaccinated. last month they set a deadline for its employees. and the ceo note as high level of compliance with very few resignations. the ones i m aware of are in single digit number of people. we ll have more by the time it finishes, but it will be very low number of people. we have not seen the mass resignations that opponents of mandates had predicted. many companies have been offering incentives to get vaccinated. requirements for vaccines. and implementing routine testing if you don t get the vaccine. bottom line, companies need vaccinated employees to get back to normal. and president biden announced plans to require all large employers ensure their workforce
an average of nearly by p 90 million people were getting their first dose every day. that s the highest it has been in three weeks. states, local officials and even business owners and employers are making a full-court press to get more shots in arms. we start this morning in dekalb county, georgia. natasha chen joins us live. it s where many experts are encouraging people to roll up their sleeves by offering incentives, right, natasha? reporter: yeah, boris. they re giving out prepaid gift cards today in hopes more people will come to this spot at a mall and get the shot especially as school districts in this area sometimes a bit early to make up for lost instruction time during the pandemic.