Great britain will be represented in the ladies wimbledon quarterfinals. Johanna konta says shes just focusing on winning the match. She is delighted she has got this far. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11am. Cash jobs like Window Cleaning and decorating are said to be worth up to £6 billion a year, so we want to hear from you this morning if you get paid in cash of if youve paid forjobs in cash around you home. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive. And if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Ending cash in hand jobs and changing the rules on the gig economy, where workers get paid per task, are two of the recommendations in a major report into the way we work. The Matthew Taylor review also says there are too many people who are being treated like Cogs In A Machine, rather than human beings. Our economics correspondent, andy verity, reports. In the last ten years,
British female finalist since 1978. Aims to become. And scientists have confirmed that they have found that people who drink beer live longer but they dont know why. Coffey. Coffee. Good morning. Its tuesday, july 11th. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. A wide ranging review of the british workplace has urged the government to provide good work for all by creating more skilled, well paid jobs. The study led by a former adviser to tony blair recommends that people working in whats known as the gig economy should receive better protection and their employers should make National Insurance contributions. Theresa may, who commissioned the report, says the conservative government will always be on the side of hard workers and good employers. Labour say the review does not go far enough. The report calls for an end to the Cash In Hand Economy. Workers working in whats known as the gig economy should receive new Legal Protections and their employers should make National Insurance contributions. A
don t do anything that is going to put yourself in jeopardy. and there will be a lot of help coming on the back end of this storm. and we have now just learned that the storm has now been downgraded to a category 1 storm. and nbc s maggie vespa is in the middle of it. she joins us from tallahassee, florida, the state capital. maggie, what are you seeing where you are right now? reporter: we re kind of a metaphor for that downgrade. things have lessened in intensity here in tallahassee, which is good news for people here. not before these wind gusts topped nearly 50 miles per hour, knocking out power across the region. thousands of people in tallahassee lost electricity throughout the morning. power crews miraculously already back up out here across the area. restoring power. we got sandbags in front of business doors here, people did their best to prep. with roughly 24 hours notice here in tallahassee they were suddenly in the midst or in the path of this storm.
supermajority in heavily gerrymandered state house voted to create an entirely separate court system, and expanded police force within the city of jackson, the blackest city in america, that would be appointed completely by white state officials. that means that the voters of jackson, which is 80% black, do not get to elected judges or prosecutors in the separate district, unlike what happens in any other part of the state. white officials currently hold all of the state wipe positions, and they do the appointing. and no black official has ever held any of these positions. in fact, the last time a black mississippi held statewide office was during reconstruction. and the state, despite being one third african american, is gerrymandered to have exactly one black congressman, representative and general sixth committee chairman bennie thompson. meanwhile, the republican who introduced the republican bill, draconian bill says because it s there s a lot of court cases in the country that co
farish street that happened in jackson for the african-american community. anthony: the state capital of jackson, mississippi, located along interstate highway 55, just outside what s known as the mississippi delta. it s the kind of place that makes you wonder why did they make it the capital. until you grab hold of what used to be around here. farish street used to be the hub of african-american life in the city. its black commercial, cultural center. when dr. king came to town, he came here. everybody did. medgar evers had an office just upstairs, here. musicians like tommy johnson, sonny boy williamson ii, and elmore james all played here. and the likes of duke ellington, cab calloway, count basie, and louis armstrong all took the stage at places like the crystal palace ballroom and the alamo on farish street. what happened? where did it all go? geno: what killed farish