Work on a more normal basis, well continue to try to meet remotely so that we can play our part in slowing the spread of covid19. I want to also announce a couple of reminders to the conduct of this hearing. Members should keep their video feed on as long as they are present in the hearing, and members are responsible for their own microphones. Just be mindful that you probably have a little bit more responsibility than usual than if we were in a regular meeting space. And please keep your microphones muted unless youre speaking and finally if members have documents they wish to submit to the record, email them to the committee clerk. But if you dont have it, we can make sure you do get it. I welcome you to the science, space and Technology Committees First Virtual hearing. Today were discussing the impact of covid19 on the Fire Service Community and how we can best leverage existing federal programs to expedite assistance to Fire Departments during the pandemic. I appreciate our witne
15. 7 . Sort of a proxy, this is old data a week older than the other data for the Unemployment Rate looking at the chart you can see it coming down tick by tick but leveling off and well hope it keeps coming down in the weeks ahead. Lets look at the states with most claims. California, 28 , michigan 23 of those who are insured or eligible for Unemployment Insurance getting that insurance there, down to rhode island at 28 . Look at the states with the fewest claims, two stories going on here, one, some states not that hard hit, perhaps nebraska, likely wyoming, but look at the right, florida, again, thats a Big National Story here. The percentage of floridians who are receiving benefits being so small because of their problems with their computer systems, just 5. 2 . Now the fed out with a survey of Household Economic developments and they did a supplement for april just to try to get the recent data. They found 90 of households report either a lost job or reduced hours but 90 on the l
Online more Central Bank Action from japan helping fuel the bulls and despite all of that, oil plunging again, down more than 20 as we see one Energy Company file for brankruptcy. Ahead on todays show, were taking a deep dive on the path forward for retailers. That sector deals with the fallout from the lock down well speak with about the issues facing the industry and be joined by former macys ceo as Department Stores deal with their own challenges and bankruptcy concerns swirl around the sector were up 5 on the s p with 59 minutes left citigroup is up 8 still down 42 year to date. Lets focus on the big stories were watching today mike is is tracking the market moves. Meg has the latest mike, lets kick it off with you and the broader markets. After about two weeks of going sideways, the s p 500 gets a little bit of a boost today to basically the levels it saw at the post crash highs of ten days ago. Take a look at how it fits into the broader picture here 2874 is a number that we firs
Possible copyright implications for Software Development ahead of the Supreme Court case google versus oracle. Thats an institute hosted this event looking at the history of copyright protections and the importance of code being protected by copyright laws. Its an hour ten minutes. All right. I believe we will now begin. Thank you all for coming to our event today on google versus oracle case. Officially titled consequences of the case here i actually have my own subtitle, which is copyright in the future of the Software Industry. Very significant case and absolutely delighted to have adam mossoff here to speak to us today about the relevant legal policy in commercial issues that are raised by this case. My name is adam mossoff and i am a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and also now the chair of the newly constituted forum for intellectual property at the Hudson Institute. This is, in fact, our inaugural event and so were delighted to have it on such an important issue and with s
Officially titled consequences of the case. I actually have my own subtitle, which is copyright and the future of the industry. Im absolutely to have patton of the fast institute to talk to us about the legal and commercial issues that are raised by this case. My name is adam mossoff. Im a senior fellow at the hudson institute. And im the chair of the newly constituted forum for intellectual property at the hudson student. This is our inaugural event and were delighted to have it on such an important issue and such an important speaker. We will be hosting events and promoting datadriven fact base research that explores and investigates the important and key roles that intellectual property plays and not just driving the u. S. Economy for the past 230 years but all innovation economies throughout the world creating the foundation for flourishing societies. And we hope to play an active role in insuring that factbased research and datadriven studies are in the hands of our policymakers a