To understand why people are anxious to see how concerned they should be. And what is changing and what is different this time. And what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change leaves not just a productivity growth but some degree of shared prosperity. Our focus is on the labor market and how we make the labor market function while for as many workers if possible. Also the challenge and the lesson if you read a report which was just released last week. One of the things that we say is a critical economic lesson of the 20th century. Is that a wellfunctioning labor market is the foundation for a healthy middleclass and without that foundation of opportunity and prosperity its very difficult for other things to work well. It also makes work work and that is why its such an honor to have mary kay mary gray here today talking about her book ghost work just to give you a tiny bit of background she is a call drill cultural anthropologist. Her earlier work has been on the communicati
Different this time and what can we do to ensure that the coming era of change leads to not just productivity growth, but some degree of shared prosperity. And our focus is on the labor market on how we make the labor market function while for as many workers as possible, but that is where we see this as the opportunity and also the challenge. The lesson if you read the report from just last week one of the things we say is coming and im kind of critical on this with a well functioning labor market is the foundation for tha healthy middle class and the political system and without the foundation of opportunity and prosperity it is difficult for other things to work well. So our focus is on making the work work and that is why it is such an honor to have mary here today from the Indiana University research talking about her book and here is a photograph and here is the actual person. Just to give you a tiny bit of background, the earlier work has been on the sort of communication and us
The russell up nearly a full percent. The broader markets, though, flat s p just lower dow, just higher joining us for the full hour, stephanie link very good afternoon to you thanks for having me. Markets flat overall, but whats happening underneath . Massive rotation today, and it actually started over the last couple of weeks and a lot of that has to do with a little bit better Economic Data that were getting around the world. Even over the weekend, we got the export import numbers out of china. And even though they were down year over year, the trend is still definitely up. And this comes on the heels of better pmi so i think a lot of it is a little bit better Economic Data. And then its this trade talk seems to be making some sort of progress so the cyclicals are actually the ones that are leading. Its financials, tech, industrials. And within tech, its se semiconductors versus Software Software is actually getting slammed. Is it that the expectations came down too far, too fast,
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla the dow is up 61 were going to start with apple again today after that big pivot to services kicking off yesterdays event at apple the arcade, of course, the streaming service, apple tv plus being priced at 4. 99 a month. Julia boorstin joins us with what this means for the likes of netflix, of hulu. The big question is whether apple tv plus costing 5 a month for nine shows at launch will get consumers to drop rival services or having a lower price point consumers will feel not they dont have to choice and will tack on another service the Company Believes most of its customers will see apple tv plus as incremental rather than a substitute for netflix, both in terms of pricing and the smaller amount of content that apple tv plus is offering but news of apple tv pluss lower than expected price hitting rival streamers. While apple shares have gained 3 the past two days, roku is down 8 , disney down 2 , netflix down 1 . Ap
Prodemocracy demonstrators plunge the city into crisis. Plus, a case of fraud off the pitch. Former top german football officials are charged with corruption. Did they buy germanys right to host the 2006 world cup . Also on the show tonight, the world loses a beloved author. Nobel laureate writer Toni Morrison whose novels exploring africanamerican identity gave voice to millions, has died at the age of 88. Im brent goff. Two viewers on pbs in the u. S. And all around the world, welcome. Tonight, there are new worries of a political and maybe military firestorm over kashmir. Yesterday, indias hindunationalistled government revoked kashmirs special status by the. By repealing article 370 of the constitution. Earlier today, Pakistans Army said it would go to any extent necessary to support the contested territory. Residence in pakistani controlled kashmir have been making their anger clear. India says it is revoking article 370 of its constitution, which gives the region more freedom to