From the school where a former student, nikolas cruz, killed 17 people. Laura westbrook reports. No more outside fort lauderdale, this was the message to lawmakers. Among the protesters was emma in silos, who took cover as a gunman started shooting gonzales. She had this to say to donald trump. Started shooting gonzales. She had this to say to Donald Trumpm the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing will be done about it, i will happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle association. What she is referring to is the millions of dollars the nra has given to the trump campaign. On a visit to the hospital where the victims are being treated, the president once again made no mention of guns or gun control. Instead, he says the problem is mental illness. Just a few kilometres south of where the protest is being held, a gun show is taking place. In
As a gunman started shooting. She had this to say to donald trump. If the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, i will happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle association. What shes referring to is the millions of dollars the nra has given towards the trump campaign. On a visit to the hospital where the victims of the attack are being treated, the president once again made no mention of guns or gun control. Instead, he says the problem is mental illness. Just a few kilometres south of where the protest is being held, a gun show is taking place. In the us, there are as many guns as people. The nra is the most powerful lobbying organisation in the us and they have successfully resisted every move to tighten gun controls. And for their supporters, it is a fundamental freedom. When someone infringes a right for p
Had a slight beat on revenue. But they did better on earnings per share, 1. 24 as opposed to 1. 19. Thats the first of several to come. Now we want to go to our morning brief. Were going to continue with retail sales reports, as we have macys out at about 8 00 this morning eastern time. 30 minutes later, its weekly initial jobless claims in the United States, plus Producer Prices coming up for the last month. And at 10 00, as alix mentioned, bill dudley holds an economic briefing on Regional Wage inequality. Finally at 1 00 this afternoon, the u. S. Treasury is going to auction 15 billion of 30year bonds. Throughout the day, people on both sides of the pacific are following developments in the potential conflict between the United States and north korea. To take us through the perspective from asia, were joined from hong kong by our chief asia economics correspondent. Give us a sense of how it looks over there. What are the possible effects that people are expecting of a possible confl
The information, it will not do them any good. Host got you. That is terry and alabama. A headline saying, for our safety, our future Chris Christie for president. That is the New Hampshire union leader, Chris Christie is their endorsement. Lets go to jean. Caller good morning, pedro. Just on,eman who was he is on point. Never have a card with large sums of money on it, where is someone gets a hold of it, they can use it. As americans, we have gotten lazy, where we want all the convenience, but along with the convenience comes the danger of other people, or bad people, doing things that are not good. The internet is a wonderful thing. There is no such thing as security on the internet. I used to work for for ricin. I worked for them for 33 years. I did network administration, system administration. The name of the is if you can get access, anyone, and does not necessarily have to be some criminal on the street stealing your credit card. There are people who are trafficking information.
So personal savings can only go so far for these individuals. At the same time though Social Security treat single women far less well than it does married women so they are not getting much help from that end of things either. Thats one reason i and others have proposed reforming Social Security to provide a flat universal benefit for all retirees regardless of income participation. On top of that individual would save in accounts provided through their employer or of not available through the government. This approach is qualitatively similar to that of the u. K. Australia canada and new zealand. In the u. S. Context you can affordably reduce the elderly poverty rate from todays level of roughly 9 to approximately 0 while increasing the Retirement Savings among the middle and high highincome workers who truly should be saving more. The lesson in all this is that there is no simple problem and no simple solution but a small if more complex problem is better in the retirement crisi cri