Coronavirus impact on the nations Food Industry, Small Business can be heard from representatives of the industry on supply chain issues, loss of customers, perishable food than facility cleaning and maintenance, this is just over 90 minutes. I call this hearing to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. I think everyone especially our witnesses for joining us today for our committees private hearing. I want to note some important requirement. Let me begin by saying the Committee Rules and practice continue to fly during hybrid proceedings. Members are reminded they are expected to adhere to these rules including decorum. During the period designated by the speaker the committee will operate in accordance with House Resolution 965 under subsequent guidance from the rules committee in a manner that respects the rights of all members to participate. House regulation requires members to be visible through video connection throughout the proceedings
To participate in another proceeding please exit this one and like back in later. Any that a member encounters technical issues that prevent them from being recognized from their questioning i will move to the next available member of the same body and will recognize the member of the next appropriate timeslot provided they have returned to the proceeding. In the event the witness loses connectivity during testimony or questioning i will preserve their time as staff address technical issue. I may need to recess the proceedings to provide time for the witness to reconnect. Finally remembered to remain muted until you recognize to minimize background noise. Over the last few months the outbreak of covid19 has led to an unprecedented Public Health crisis and creating a dire economic crisis for small firms. Three out of four businesses are experiencing a decrease in revenue and over half of Small Businesses are concerned about being forced to close. Small businesses across the Food Supply
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This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss. In washington coming up extra Unemployment Benefits are running out for millions of american congressional negotiations stalled for the next relief bill and we take a look at the hard hit Restaurant Industry to see how workers and Small Business owners are hoping to shut down for now limited capacity we have a lot to get to so lets get started. A looming deadline for democrats and republicans as unemployment aid expires admin night on friday while the Senate Republicans want to decrease those 600. 00 per week to 200. 00 but democrats that will theyre not settling for less parties are clashing on several sides including Liability Protections for businesses and schools and funding for state and local government now this comes as applications for Unemployment Benefits increased for the 2nd. Straight week in the week ending on july 18th the number of people receiving those jobless aid well they increased by 867000 bringing th
Government now this comes as applications for Unemployment Benefits increased for the 2nd straight week in the week ending on july 18th the number of people receiving those jobless aid well they increased by 867000 bringing that total to 17000000 americans earlier this Week Senate Republicans released a nearly one trillion dollar relief package of their own this was to counter the 3 trillion dollars package that the House Democrats passed back in may talks are scheduled to resume through the weekend but a deal still seems pretty far from sight. Commodities in crypto markets are heating up around the world as traditional equity markets take a breather from their epic rally last quarter well it seems like we are seeing a big asset rotation coming on in the boom bust cohost Christine Christie chinese regulators theyre rushing to curb Precious Metals trading in order to temper speculation how dangerous is this for. Or the speculative market well this could be very dangerous especially when