who we are as a country. that is our show for this evening, now it s time for the last word with ali velshi in for lauren, good evening. caitlin is the reporter for the 80s on this particular story, which goes in and out of fashion for the right sometimes. it s the biggest story, and then sometimes, we forget for months. what your story tonight told us was that you might forget about this. this might not be the biggest thing on your agenda. you might be thinking about israel or ukraine or inflation or whatever it is. these people don t have places to sleep tonight. it s cold outside in your city. in new york city, around the roosevelt hotel down the street from where we work. we need to see them again. we have effectively it is a dehumanization of sorts. there are things that we talk about. they are pawns, as you describe. you re store humanize it and remind people, whatever you are doing, whatever your real passions are, whatever is important to you, there are many d
never go away. kaitlan, your reporting, it s so great that you won a pulitzer. it s so deserved. this is one of the essential stories of our times, and you are a great chronicler of it. thank you for doing that, for all of us to remind ourselves who we are as a country. that is our show for this evening, now it s time for the last word with ali velshi in for lawrence, good evening. caitlin is the reporter for the ages on this particular story, which goes in and out of fashion for the right sometimes. it s the biggest story, and then sometimes, we forget for months. what your story tonight told us was that you might forget about this. this might not be the biggest thing on your agenda. you might be thinking about israel or ukraine or inflation or whatever it is. these people don t have places to sleep tonight. it s cold outside in your city. in new york city, around the roosevelt hotel down the street from where we work. we need to see them again. we have effectively
today on inside politics, the final four. the stage is set. four republican presidential candidates have made the cut for the fourth gop debate. get ready for some fireworks between ron desantis and nikki haley, but will either take on donald trump? plus a desperate plea for ukraine. senators will hear directly from president zelenskyy about the stakes on the battlefield if they do not approve more fund ing. with just days left to act and the world watching, will u.s. lawmakers give up on cukraine? and hate on campus. the leaders of three of the country s most elite universities are on capitol hill right now answering questions about the terrifying rise of anti-semitism. did they allow hate to flourish. and what can be done to stop it now? i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start with the 2024 race. ron desantis, nikki haley, vivek ramaswamy will be on the stage in alabama with less than six weeks until the first votes are cast, the fro
or more if the going rate for theirjob is higher than that. now, from next spring, as we ve been hearing, that minimum salary threshold will rise to £38,700. but there are exceptions in what are called shortage occupations, jobs where there are lots of vacancies which can t be filled by local people. well, not easily, anyway. and since last year, the sector which has seen the most workers come in by that route is, of course, health and social care. the numbers are remarkable. in the year to september, 66,000 people got a conventional skilled worker visa, but in the same period, 144,000 people got a health and care visa, mostly to work in care homes. but many of the foreign workers bring close family with them, too. so if you add dependents to the skilled workers, and the numbers rises to 117,000. but in health and care, the combined figure goes up to 318,000. now that s an additional 174,000 dependants who d no longer be able to come unless the worker earns more than £38,70
there are now just five days for congress to,a vert a shutdown of the federal government. newly elected speaker mike johnson has announce a two-step plan to fund the government and it is running into opposition from democrats and some republicans. cnn s manu raju has the details. speaker mike johnson in his first test as speaker unveiling the plan to keep the government open with just a handful of days before the end of the week deadline, but already facing fire from his right flank who members of the house freedom caucus concerned about the lack of spending cuts. democrats didn t want any spending cuts and would vote against it and it would not have aid to israel and they re criticizing the unconventional approach by johnson and some agencies would be funded until mid-january and others until early-february and this is an unusual approach, but one johnson says can help achieve their legislative objectives. how many folks on the right will push back and try to push him out