In washington coming out new unemployment claims the United States drop below 1000000 for the week as we look to find the bottom of the pandemic coverage and there are a lot of headlines about trade tension between the u. S. And china dont forget the u. S. And the European Union well they still have trade issues of their own have a lot to get to so lets get started. Its thursday which means u. S. Unemployment numbers were released weekly jobless claims fell to 963000 last week now this is the 1st time the numbers are below 1000000 since mid march that was when the coronavirus was declared a pandemic in late march u. S. Filings hit nearly 6900000 in a single week while the better than expected numbers come as President Donald Trump issued an executive order that provides an extra 4 100. 00 a week of unemployment thats down from the original 600. 00 of insurance but those by. That may not show up for weeks and employment rate fell to 10. 2 percent last month this was after peaking near 1
Should not be ended as fast or as abruptly as they are 1 then what is the actual trade here and florida unfortunately heres what i wish we could report right if you were in a Perfect World you and i would go on the air today and say the surge of cases. Of coal that my team are down oh and by the way employment is up yeah unfortunately we only are able to attach ourselves to half of that story which is employment is looking like its starting to go up by the way and when we say you know comparatively speaking because yeah better. Lets not lets not set off as my mother would say any fireworks yet but if were playing with. A little tiny bit but were still seeing kobe 1000 cases go up in places like florida then you know most Health Experts would say its not a good tradeoff. Some economists would say ok politicians depending on their party would say yeah we love that lets keep doing it so thats kind of whats going on right now in places like florida and arizona and others its a little bit o
This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss im sorry montecito in washington coming up new unemployment claims in the United States dropped below 1000000 for the week as we look to find the bottom of the pandemic coverage and there are a lot of headlines about trade tension between the u. S. And china dont forget the u. S. And the European Union will they still have trade issues of their own have a lot to get to so lets get started. Its thursday which means u. S. Unemployment numbers were released weekly jobless claims fell to 963000 last week now this is the 1st time the numbers are below 1000000 since mid march that was when the coronavirus was declared a pandemic in late march. U. S. Filings hit nearly 6900000. 00 in a single week while the better than expected numbers come as President Donald Trump issued an executive order that provides an extra 400. 00 a week of unemployment thats down from the original 600. 00 of insurance but those benefits may not show up f
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Gettysburg won the james j. Roberts award for best civil war book that year and his book on confederate goliath earned the prestigious award on Civil War History given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind, id like to tell you the story about the young history major what decided after he got a bachelors degree in history, he probably ought to get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. So he was accepted, enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business and wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his first exam and so did everyone in the class. Now, the professor was notoriously irrascable, he came in