Before, and indeed is doing right now with the boston fed itself, running a special fund to back up money markets he says that regulatory changes will allow restructured loans from the banks can be brought to the Federal Reserve and be funded that way, and wont be frowned upon by supervisors, so kind of an encourage from the Bank Survivors to get to the to work with their customers and restructure loans. Finally, says its the need to support essential workers and its the best of times here for the public spirit here let me just talk about this rising unemployment rise dramatically were only looking for 0. 2 of an increase in the friday jobs report, but thats not going to pick up whatwear seeing in the more frequent data we had north of 3 million claims last week. Expectation for tomorrow is north of 3 million as well both of those together would raise the Unemployment Rate quite a bit by itself. So were looking beyond the data, tyler and kelly, because its not necessarily going to pick
From before miss major gives any announcements, i want to thank all of the staff from the clerk of the board who are bringing this Virtual Meeting to everybody who is participating and watching. Thank you to john c. And author thorougarthurcoo. The board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are close. However, members will be participating remotely as if they were present. Public comment will be available for each item on the agenda. Channel 26 and sf gov tv are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities to speak via phone by calling 888 2045984. The access code is 3511558 and then press pound. You will be lined up in the system in the order you died, 1 and 0. While youre waiting, the system will be silent. Thank you, madam clerk. Could you please call the first item. Sure. Item number one is a resolution renaming the 200 block of stewart street to stewart lane to honour william m. Executer. Ste
You. When i think about this book i see it as having three major parts, after you introduce a situation now, you do a really good job of talking about through stories how workers struggled, they themselves built the middle class in this country to a great extent by organizing, by striking, bargaining through a lot of adversity and demanding more from policy changes and then you go through a lot of the hard times of what i call the reagan era which we are still in Work Companies and starting with the president of the United States really attacked workers a lot and their unions and then you tell a lot of hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organizing and unions and other forms and make policy recommendations and one thing i have to say, a lot of books like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendation but i hope we really get into that because you made quite a few interesting suggestions on what might be done t
Steve greenhouse, thank you so much for coming in to talk about your new book, beaten down, worked up. It was a real pleasure to read it and i look forward to having time to talk to you about it. Guest thank you for your kind words, congressman. Great to speak with you. Host when i think about this book i think of it as having three major parts. After you introduce the situation now you do a really good job, i think, of talking about, through stories about how workers struggled, really they themselves built the middle class in this country to a great extent by organizing, by striking, by bargaining and through diversity and by demanding policy changes and then you go through a lot of the hard times of what i call the reagan era which i think we are still in where companies and starting with the president of the United States really have attacked workers all hot and their unions and then you tell hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organiz
I would say it is a very serious moment for everybody in the country and it is probably a new chapter in our history that is going to be rewritten. Or written this time. We have things that have never happened before on a scale that have never happened before to this country. And we are going to have to get back the way we did during the world wars where we all started pulling together to try to solve a common problem. That new chapter would begin with what . Employers do not know that they have to do or what they should do. We need to adopt that standard. The federal government has to to lead on that. The second thing we have to do, is get personal protective equipment in the hands of a number of our front line people because the shortage is there. People do not know how to get it. The strategic stockpile is not being opened up the way it should be. So we need to have one person in charge at the white house that is telling people, heres how you can get those supplies. Then we need to