140,000 that have closed or consolidated in the last nine years. Its one of our hay meadows, its owned by my grandma. Reporter in pottawatomie county, kansas, 34yearold matt and his younger brother, tim, are also fifth generation farmers. You have guys my age that are trying to raise a family, trying to farm, and having to work in town, just to produce cheap food for the country. Its a crisis. Reporter they say they spent 34,000 last year farming wheat and other crops, but they only brought in 35,000. So they may have found a solution. They now sell cattle and cut out the middle man. When these cattle go to slaughter they might make 1,000 a head, but if they slaughter, process, and sell directly to the consumer themselves, each head would be worth 2,100. With an uncertain future, those like don teske can only hope the family farm will survive. Were going to lose another generation of farmers through this, and thats sad. Reporter david begnaud, cbs news, pottawatomie county, kansas. Pel
Of americans believe the economy is in good shape, and that is the highest since before the great recession. The dow gained 34 points today to close at 20,810. The tenth Straight Record high. The first time that has happened in decades. Jim axelrod is here with us tonight to tell us more about what many people are calling the trump rally. Reporter well, scott, the dow just barely made it, but it managed to scratch out a slight gain today to run its streak of record highs to 10. Now, the markets have been on a roll since election day, up more than 13 in the last 107 days. But never mind that, try this this is the longest run since 1987 of consecutive trading days that we have seen. Pelley and why is that . Reporter well, there are a number of reasons, scott. You have to understand that Industrial Companies are expecting an increase in Infrastructure Spending, as we saw today when the president met with manufacturing executives to discuss jobs. Now, the president has signaled he will pus
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Be right back. Our cbs news pol found 77 of americans believe the economy is in good shape and that is the highest since the great recession. And the dow to close at the 10th Straight Record high. The first time that has happened in decades. Jim axalrod is here to tell us more about what many people are calling the trump rally. Well, scott, the dow just barely made it but manage to run its streak of record highs to 10. The markets have been on a roll since election day, up more than 13 in the last 107 days. But never mind that. Try this. This is the longest streak of consecutive 1997 of consecutive trade days we have seen. Theres a number of reasons. You have to understand Industrial Companies are expecting an increase in Infrastructure Spending as we saw when he met with executives to discuss jobs. The president has signalled he will push for an Infrastructure Spending bill and everybody likes the signals on Corporate Tax reform and regulation roll back and while some pull back could
Philly institute of hip hop entrepreneurship is all about inspiring local youth to become Business Owners tayibb smith and Meegan Denenberg are taking a new approach when it comes to teaching young people Business Practices. We worked with a lot of young men and women who are looking to i think be founders, president s, all these big labels and everything they want to do. And we realized that a lot of them had no idea on how to run a business. So the pair received a 300 thousand dollar grant from the Knight Foundation to teach a group of urban millennials in philly how to create their own companies and the institute of hip hop entrepreneurship was born. We have a lot of people who maybe came through the lens of wanting to be an artist or a performer, or have some kind of connection to the music industry. So hip hop as an ethos of inspiration, because hip hop is influenced so many different Business Practices in the last 30 years. 24 participants were chosen out of 300 to meet up once a