The Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. Let me get to the point of this hearing. Today in our country, over 60 about where people are living paycheck to paycheck. And millions are working for starvation wages. Unbelievably, despite an explosion in technology and huge increases worker productivity, the average American Worker is making 50 a week less then he or she made 50 years ago after adjusting for inflation. Unless we change the nature of the way our economy works, it is all too likely that our Younger Generation will have a lower standard of living then their parents. What this means in reality is that workers throughout our country are struggling to pay for housing, struggling to pay for health care, and prescription drugs, struggling to put food on the table. Struggling to pay off their student debts and to deal with other basic sensitize of life basic necessities of life. And while that is the reality for the working class of this count
to stop assailants on a ram pain. easier said than done. let s go to c.b. cot in nashville with the latest. c.b. we re in downtown nashville where in a couple hours a citywide vigil will get underway. a vigil to bring together this broken city to honor the six lives taken in the covenant school shooting. jill biden will be here and we re expecting cheryl crowe to perform. we re hearing from community members that say they re floored by the loss of life. take a listen. i think it s horrible. i think the evil that was done here is obviously made worse by the fact that there s children involved in it. so i think that s gut wrenching for everybody. a big reason why we want to come out, put flowers down and say prayers and pay our respects. nashville police say they re no longer holding news conferences and will provide any up tates on their investigation in writing. so it s not likely we ll find out the contents of the shooter s manifesto any time soon. we know from the pol
in the actual trial to explain, defend, or perhaps confess to why they aired live in many ways that led to or softened the ground for an insurrection. that is why this is a media story, but far more than a media story. the evidence has shown many knew trump was lying tatting election, but they, quote, endorsed it any way, and that word comes from murdoch himself. the reason this is in court is not because of the january 6th committee or congress or media matters, which is a fox kind of critic group. the reason is that somebody says they were legally hurt and defamed by fox, specifically one of the voting machine companies you may have heard of, dominion. today, damning new evidence as the case heats up. more emails show the internal fox news fact checking department they have one of those that is supposed to provide guardrails it fact-checked in advance and alerted some of the claims about that plaintiff, the voting machine company dominion, were just false. and then th
And to our 330 Starbucks College Achievement graduates, so proud of you. Those who have benefited from the starbucks and asu partnership. Im incredibly proud to be your partner, congratulations to all of you. [applause] i would like to begin my time with you today by sharing a personal story. Last year, Starbucks Coffee Company Opened our first store in south africa in johannesburg. , i had never been to south africa before. I did not know what to expect. Certainly could not be prepared for the level of poverty and what i saw in the townships throughout the city. We opened 2 stores and lines were out the door in anticipation of starbucks coming to the market. Before we opened the stores i , gathered the 50 young people who would grace the green apron and represent the company. I sat with them for a few hours and wanted to hear each one of , their personal stories. As they were sharing their stories with me, despite their poverty, their plight in life, there was so much joy and gratitud
And to our 330 Starbucks College Achievement graduates, so proud of you. Those who have benefited from the starbucks and asu partnership. Im incredibly proud to be your partner, congratulations to all of you. [applause] i would like to begin my time with you today by sharing a personal story. Last year, Starbucks Coffee Company Opened our first store in south africa in johannesburg. , i had never been to south africa before. I did not know what to expect. Certainly could not be prepared for the level of poverty and what i saw in the townships throughout the city. We opened 2 stores and lines were out the door in anticipation of starbucks coming to the market. Before we opened the stores i , gathered the 50 young people who would grace the green apron and represent the company. I sat with them for a few hours and wanted to hear each one of , their personal stories. As they were sharing their stories with me, despite their poverty, their plight in life, there was so much joy and gratitud