Terrorist attacks in brussels. This is about 40 minutes. Corporation. He says he opposes that. Order. The questions to the Prime Minister. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Nature and has made a belfast prison officer died last week as a result of injuries from a bomb placed under his vehicle. Investigation is underway and one man charged with the connection to the attack. We should offer condolences to the families and friends. Mr. Speaker, let me briefly update the house on the terrorist attacks yesterday in brussels. Details still emerge but our understanding is 34 people were killed and many other injured. In istanbul on the 19th of march. One british national. We faced a common Terror Threat and im sure the whole house will join me in expressing our full solidarity with the people of belgium following this terrible attacks. I spoke to belgium Prime Minister yesterday to pass on our lives. By police and agencies are doing everything they can to support the investigation. In this country weve
The middle class has been a major issue, the condition of the middle class in this country. The people at the Pew Research Center that said the american middle class is losing ground. We want to get your thoughts this morning on what policy is needed to help the american middle class. Byare going to break this up income. Here is the headline to the poll. They didnt couple of months back. Its very relative to this campaign. People say the government doesnt do enough to help the middle class. There are mixed views on which class the democratic hearty favors. This is a chart. They asked 1500 people which social classes do the republicans and democrats favor. Said republicans favor the rich. When those same people were asked about democrats, 31 said they bring the poor. 32 say they favor the middle class and 26 say the rich. There are some overview points. There are now roughly as many adults in middle Income Housing as in lower or upper income households. This is a shift from four decades
Brian Professor Robert j. Gordon, author of the rise and fall of american growth. 750 pages of a lot of statistics. I read this, another problem is that we may be creating too much data. What do you mean by that . Roberts i did not mean creating too much data in the context of big data, and artificial intelligence. Most of that is being used for marketing. Most of the big data that is actually being used by corporations is to steal market share away from each other. That is not producing productivity or social benefits, it is just carving up a zerosum pie. Brian when did you get the idea for this book . Robert the original idea of rapid Economic Growth in the middle the 20th century, Slower Growth before and after, came about when i was graduating many years ago, when new work on the history of the American Economy came up with some startling numbers. That is that the output, the total production of goods and services in the u. S. Economy doubled between the 1920s in the 1950s. And yet
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Agreement not to. And we begin with the ongoing violence between the israelis and palestinians have killed dozened of people on both sides. Benjamin netenyahu condemned sundays beating death of a migrant. He called on israelis not to pursue vigilantly justice. This came as israel deployed soldiers across the country in an effort to stop a wave of palestinian knife attacks against israelis. Karl pinhold joins us now from jerusalem. Lets start with the fallout from the killing of an eritrean man. What is the latest on that story, please . Yes, you mentioned the fallout there. This is what Israeli Society right now is beginning to analyze, and of course the Israeli Police is investigating it, because the police have announced they are looking for the israeli civilians who killed the eritrean man at the bus station. He was among the victims of that initial attack by what now appears to be a loan israelipalestinian attacker. But one of the security guards misidentified the refugee as a pote