To fight covid so we can open our businesses safely resume our lives and put this pandemic behind us biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris met virtually with ceos and president s of Top Companies like gm microsoft target and various labor unions biden said those Business Leaders agree we need a National Covid strategy to help the economy recover biden and harris also laid out the incoming administrations broader Economic Strategy were going to buy american. No government contract will be given to companies that dont make their products here in america bidens plans include raising the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour and creating jobs by investing in Clean Energy Infrastructure and high Speed Broadband access. The Biden Administration also wants to invest in historically black colleges and universities and communities of color hit especially hard by the pandemic now is when the real work begins. The necessary work. The good work. Of getting this virus under control biden said o
The flat line. Dow futures up by 9 points s p futures down by 1 point. Nasdaq up by 5 1 2 nasdaq up for two out of the last three sessions as Technology Stocks continue to defy odds. Oil prices dragging things down yesterday. You can see in asia, the nikkei down slightly. Hang seng was weaker shanghai was down by a third of a percent. In europe, in the early trading, already seeing some modest declines the cac is the biggest decliner, its down by a half percentage point. The ftse off by 0. 4 crowd oil prices sitting at a tenmonth low. 42. 80. Still below 43. The big stories were watching today anything that happens at uber is big. Its another departure it took a day, but its front page on all the papers today about travis so late it missed the papers. Even now, if youre interested, some guy named bill gurley, who you may or may not know, a venture canpitalist at benchmark who was behind the push to get ckalanick out, now e stepped down from his role at company. Gurley served as a board
Our shoppers and Shopping Centers. If you look at Shopping Centers and jobs in stores its been very, very tough for them. They have had a hard time closing at numbers and records that have never been seen before. So we have to stop that. The online predatory practices. Since the beginning of the year, we have already created over 50,000 brandnew manufacturing jobs. And were just getting started. We will lift our citizens from welfare to work. We will turn boarded up communities into new outposts of american commerce. And we will once again rediscover our heritage as a manufacturing nation. We used to be a manufacturing nation. Not so much anymore but i will tell you, you look at michigan, you look at some states that have really moved, you know, in pennsylvania, two weeks ago they opened a mine the first mine that was opened in decades. Industry and much of that comes at the border. George washington encouraged americans to produce their own goods so that our young nation could become
Storm, after criticizing harry Morning Program the president tweeted, how come owi. Q. Crazy mika along with psycho joe came to maralago around new years eve and wanted to join me, bleedingfacelift. I said no. He did it while sitting in the white house added to the swit repudiation, including from fellow republicans. Kansas republican congresswoman lynn jenkins tweeted back at the president , this is not okay. As a female in politics im often criticized for my lookss we should be working to empower women. Please, just stop, was the twitter plea of nebraska senator ben sass. This isnt normal and beneath the dignity of your office. This, from South Carolina republican senator lindsey graham. Your tweet was beneath the office and represents what is wrong with american politics, not the greatness of america. With us to share their reporting and insights, jackie ckucinich and cnns Phil Mattingly. I think i know the answer that, this is who he is, but, why . And wouldnt the president s obse
Oregon Senate hit by another GOP lawmaker boycott, now over COVID-19
(Update: Adding video, more comments from Knopp, says it was one-day deal )
Knopp says Democrats afraid of people that don’t agree with their agenda
SALEM, Ore. (AP) Republican lawmakers boycotted an Oregon Senate session Thursday morning, using a tactic they had employed in the past two years to assert their will by stopping work in the Democratic-led Legislature.
This time, it was over the state’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Senate Republican Leader Fred Girod said the Legislature “has abdicated too much responsibility” to Democratic Gov. Kate Brown. He demanded legislation aimed at school reopenings, vaccine distribution, economic recovery and government accountability.