Mr. Secretary, thank you for joining us this morning. I want to get right to the news. 2. 4 million new jobless claims of unemployment this morning, several Senate Republican said yesterday they want to see some action now on the next relief package. Is another package necessary and if so, when. Well, let me comment first of all, im very sympathetic to the people who are not working at no fault of their own because we close down the economy and as we slowly reopen the economy in a safe way we will get people back to work. In the current cares package there is several parts of it that are designed to help those American Workers. One is the ppp and getting people back to work through that process. The other is the Economic Impact payments which are the direct payments and finally be enhanced on employment insurance. We do need to fix where in certain cases we are paying more than they made so we need to fix that. We will carefully review the next few weeks and i think there is a strong l
[background conversations] [background conversations] [electromechanical sounds] [background conversations] [siren in background] [background conversations] [standing by for live event] cspan viewers are familiar with Richard Trumka, the president of the aflcio. We found out another 2. 1 lane americans fell for unappointed assurance insurance last week 2. 1 million americans filed for Unemployment Insurance last week. Can you give an idea of the effect is this coronavirus have done it has had on union jobs in america . There are two aspects, the members still working or people still working, we are concerned about their health and safety. The ones who been unemployed through no fault of their own, youre looking at 50 millan people now. Epi says in may and june, the Unemployment Rate will be 30 . In america. You are looking at 50 Million People now. There has been a loss of income for various groups. Hispanics, 58 percent of expense a loss of income and blocks, 55 and asian markets 48 ,
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People who are not working at no fault of their own because we close down the economy and as we slowly reopen the economy in a safe way we will get people back to work. In the current cares package there is several parts of it that are designed to help those American Workers. One is the ppp and getting people back to work through that process. The other is the Economic Impact payments which are the direct payments and finally be enhanced on employment insurance. We do need to fix where in certain cases we are paying more than they made so we need to fix that. We will carefully review the next few weeks and i think there is a strong likelihood we will need another bill but we just have three chilean dollars we are pumping into the economy and will step back for a few weeks and think clearly how we need to spend more money and if we need to do that. As you know, mr. Secretary, the house passed a 3 trilliondollar bill that is strongly opposed by the administration and Congressional Republ