Consistently speaking throughout this nation, one of the fastest ways forward is in fact education. Your comment do you disagree with that . I totally agree with that the comment with senator cotton is a part of the challenge we had with upward mobility in our society that put the focus on education is the importance of understanding globalization and technology and the chasm that it creates for the workforce for those on one side are going to be impacted by the grow iing technology and gap being created. This economy requires a different type of education. It may not be the formal education we are all used to in the figures i talked about from the High School Dropout to the person with an advanced degree that still works in addition that one, the reason why myself and cory booker and others focussed on apprenticeships is because our nation speaking of someplace like germany, we are woefully behind on using apprenticeships of using a mechanism or vehicle to help folk who is may not wan
to the region and quite frankly the whole world. the israeli leader also talked about the president s visit to the saudi kingdom. giving him a message to pass on to the leaders he will be meeting there in his trip. mr. president, you will meet with the leaders of saudi arabia, qatar, kuwait and oman and iraq. i would like you to pass them all a message from us. our hands are outstretched for peace. with that talk more about this nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander and jane harmon and president emeritus of the wilson center and author of insanity defense while why the failure makes us less safe. so peter, what more do we know about what president biden s expected to do and talk about when he is in saudi arabia? it s quite an accomplishment, a president of the united states going from israel to saudi arabia. reporter: yeah, that really says as much about the changing landscape here in the middle east as it does about anything else. the first u.s
Claims at a fiveweek high bon employee bonuses of 1,000 at some places. Now on to the next total in washington the shutdown as the deadline approaches well go live to d. C. For the state of play. And the apple conspiracy theorists were right the company does slow down your old iphones and consumers are upset. Details on that, coming up first up, though, as the tax reform bill awaits the president presiden president s signature, Many Companies announcing bonuses, pay hikes and Capital Spending sn initiatives. At t will invest an additional 1 billion in the United States. Our own parent, comcast, says it will give 1,000 bonuses to more than 100,000 workers and spend more than 50 billion over the next five years in infrastructure boeing, 300 million in workforce training and facility enhancements for its employees both wells fargo and fifth third raising their minimum wages to 15. Fifth third also handing out bonuses to 15,000 workers. Kudlow a few moments ago on twitter said hes never se
Americans are open for business and we are competitive once again. Thats the president making his case for u. S. Economic growth at the World Economic forum. Good friday morning, welcome to squawk on the street. I am Carl Quintanilla and jim cramer and david faber well have more on trade, the dollar and International Cooperation and we still have earnings to get to starbucks and intel both moving in different directions. The ceo of starbucks is also coming up with us a the president just finished at the World Economic forum in davos. He emphasized the new trade stance in his administration the United States will never turn an eye on economic planning these and other behaviors are harming businesses and destroying the Global Markets and harming businesses and workers around the globe went onto call regulations still taxation and talked about how it has been around the world. Americas first is not america alone. Look, i think that he made a great sales pitch for america. I think thats no
Cheese burger in paradise heaven on earth ho hum another month, another new high for your money. The slow meltup marching on. The nasdaq looking at that hitting a new high. The oil and Energy Stocks all the Big Eight Oil names, exxons, chef rons are higher. On the other side of the trade, yeah some of the real estate stocks are lagging, but overrule a good day. What individual names are making investors money today . The casino stocks. Look at that. Las vegas sands are up big on some big numbers from chinas ma cow. Bikky . Good afternoon im becky quick. Here is what else is happening at this hour. A government watchdog said that medicaid was overcharged for epipen from 2006 to 2016. That is far more than the amount mylan agreed to pay the settle overcharging allegations. Construction spending posting its biggest drop in a year in april. A sharp upward division pointing to underlying string. Illinois Credit Rating getting closer to junk. Its debt downgraded after lawmakers failed to app