Day from the field to the fork, to the grocers, to the meat processers, and thanks to the president s decision to use the defense production act we now have uniformity. The objective is work every day to keep those Meat Processing plants and ones coming down going back online. While were trying to keep workers safe an healthy. Weve done that. So with the testing, with the ppe, with the restructuring in the facilities theyre also doing a lot of that as well to social distance where they can, put in shields, look at lines to separate the shift. Partnership, really. Kim, we had great talk with owners of the plants, the top people, big people, big companies, actually. You wouldnt believe how many plants they have. I believe it was a very strong talk and i think they got the message. So within a week 1 2 we should be in great shape, maybe sooner. Another piece of it is, as the price for price of boxed beef is really skyrocketing. There is a huge price differential disparity. Farmers are hur
Businesses dont go anywhere americas war starts right now. Millions of americans are struggling to get their stimulus checks but even if they can get through the iris web site they can still have banks steal their money join me to talk about this is fair and cousins editor the national trialware magazine this this story i guess its no surprise right this whole litany the whole nature of this legislation was to put money in the hands of people so they could eat so they could pay their rent now we see the threat of banks saying what well the banks are saying hey you have Overdraft Fees from a couple years ago oh youre youre behind on this payment that you know this debt that we hold for you were going to steal your money and the worst part about this is not. Just the fact that the banks are doing this its that this was intentional this was intentionally put into this piece of legislation because they wrote in a provision congress did as part of the stimulus package here that the federal
[applause] im happy to introduce the moderator for the session. Hes not only im sorry, i skipped over. The moderator is curtis wilkie, associate professor of journalism at the university of mississippi, and hes also a fellow at the university over the center for southern journalism and politics. If you will take over. Thank you. And thank you all for coming. We appreciate the presence of the guests on the panel here at the mississippi book festival it is Getting Better and better every year. Im going to start off by introducing very briefly overcast and we will carry on a discussion i hope that you will have some questions for the panel towards the end of the hour. Karen is a bestselling author of several books, and her newest eden park is aof pick for august. Maybe some of you read it said it captures the bill of the age and the gangsters. They also call her but a well researched highly engaging work filled with intrigue, infidelity and headline catching courtroom drama. Its good to h
Instead the rule says were going to leave it up to the treasury run by steve maneuver the banker hill decide if banks are allowed to take your money and of course minucci did the very predictable thing which was to say absolutely banks if somebody owes you money this stimulus check is going right into their account at your bank you can go ahead and keep it that is what they explicitly told the bank teller and extent the bill exactly limit you the back story a little bit more Treasury Department is having this massive webinars telephone conference with banks all over the all of the u. S. And they they say by the way is it ok if we take this money that comes to us the 1200. 00 check and if they owe us money on overcharges are they on us money on delinquent payment on a loan that we can take that money and real cutesy she says well you know theres nothing the explicit that says you cant add other words youre right they understood this when they went into it. 1 understands that hes looking
Millions of americans are struggling to get their stimulus checks but even if they can get through the i. R. S. Website they could still have banks steal their money join me to talk about this is fair and cousins editor the National Trial where the magazine this this story i again its no surprise right this whole living the whole nature of this legislation was to put money in the hands of people so they could eat so they could pay their rent now we see the threat of banks saying what well the banks are saying hey you have Overdraft Fees from a couple years ago oh youre youre behind on this payment that you know this debt that we hold for you were going to steal your money and the worst part about this is not just the fact that the banks are doing this its that this was intentional this was intentionally put into this piece of legislation because they wrote in a provision congress did as part of the stimulus package here that the federal government cannot seize any of this if you are th