In the u.s. those workers are still fighting for just $15, but pay isn t the only problem. m.i.t. s professor writes american workers also receive less notice and severance when fired compared to workers in other wealthy countries. they take less vacation, unlike their peers in most other rich countries. they don t have guaranteed paid parental leave. the labor shortages that we re seeing, the record job openings alongside record resignations are a market phenomenon that compels companies to improve on some of these policies to attract workers. we ve already seen this in terms of pay. average hourly earnings for workers have risen by more than a dollar in the past year. that s not just good for workers, it s also good for the economy. that s because since the dotcom era of the 1990s worker productivity has stagnated. at smith notes in bloomberg, the 2001 recession contributed to an oversupply of non-skilled workers in cities. many companies reduced employee
Stagnated. the elevation from emergency use to full approval appears to have changed hundreds of thousands of minds a day. and on the vaccine front, united kingdom study published in the lan set medical journal shows vaccines, pfizers, modesto and j&j all protected people very well against catching breakthrough covid-19 infections and becoming seriously ill. and the study reported that the odds of somebody vaccinated who then ends up getting covid-19 ending up in the hospital dramatically cut with the vaccine by 2/3. back to you. julie: after court battles over school mask mandates in texas and florida, colorado high school students staged a walk-out to protest them. no more masks. these people agree with me. they hate masks. i believe that masks have been going for two years now. this will be the third year of my high school career that s compromised.
Doug, i ll start with you. democrats now have the building resentment and the criticism of them, this is very one-sided, the republicans have had no voice in the deliberations. they weren t able to call the witnesses they wanted to. this seems like a culmination of that tonight. it definitely is. look, i think this could have been done in a better and fair way. look, i think the chairman protests too much. shannon: the ranking member of. the ranking member. i misspoke. it s 11:30 at night, will do it back at 10:00 in the morning? that doesn t strike me as the worst thing that could happen. you were alluding to the polls, this has stagnated. this is not going to turn whether there is a vote at 11:30 or 10:00 a.m. it s not going affect public opinion. it might affect the members
46%, strong pro-impeachment, 32%, strong anti-impeachment, and then it s about 15%, 6% no opinion at all, and 9% soft either way. i think democrats think that this is a pretty risky process, particularly those in the sort of battleground districts that helped the party win back control of the house. i can say that when you re out on the presidential campaign, this is not something that comes up all that much. once in a while somebody asks a question, maybe there s a question per event, but for the most part democrats are far more focused on issues like health care, the economy, and i think the concern is the longer the impeachment goes on, they get away from talking about those issues. and there s certainly a contingent of the party that believes those were the issues that helped them win back the house and that is a successful message. so we ll have to say. it doesn t seem like this is really changing minds as the polling points out and dan pointed out, the numbers have sort of stag
United states and some experts say your fears are overblown and point to the unemployment rate at a 50-year low and labor increases that have stagnated, not what you would expect to see if robots were indeed taking over. are you concerned that you might be overstating the threat of automation? well what is indisputable, jake, is manufacturing employment went down by 4 million over the last number of years and the vast majority was due to robots and automation. and it is also indisputable despite the headline labor rate we are at a multi-decade low of 63% and millions of americans have stopped participating in the work force which artificially makes that unemployment rate look better much better than it is in real life. i want to ask you about something that you tweeted about at length this weekend. one of the three new cast members for saturday night live a guy names shane gillis from meck ansberg, pennsylvania, he offers what i think corrects would call a half-heart add