Lockdown has shifted the way people relationship with their bosses of their companies and how to account for costs in a down to the granularity of toilet paper and the only industry i know where toilet paper costs are incorporated in the p. And l. On a monthly or weekly basis is in the prison business in prison people are very parsimonious with their toilet paper and its all accounted for due to the nature of that industry so this is what coronaviruses done is created this Prison Planet type of situation certainly and the workers in the netherlands 80 percent of them are wrecked are basically part of organized labor they have collective bargaining so this is what theyre fighting over is 2. 02 euros a day for toilet paper that they now have to buy a home that they used to use at the office on the. Is this apparently considered a right across the rest of europe we see spain has obliged employers to pay for home office meat and some equipment germany is debating a bill in training Remote
This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss in washington coming up lawmakers in the u. S. Are preparing a fresh round of hope and i think relief as the economy faces the greatest challenge in decades straight ahead were going to take a look at the state of stimulus talks and how the nation stacks up against others and later well break down the economic toll the pandemic has caused on businesses as the u. S. Has seen record at retail closures with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program here in the United States is House Democrats have released a 2. 00 trillion dollar coronavirus alif package which they claim would restore 600. 00 weekly jobless benefits and provide another round of stimulus checks to. Most americans now the plan released monday evening is a last ditch effort to revive stalled stimulus talks with the white house Many Republican and democratic lawmakers have pushed for another round of economic stimulus for months but have
High Household Wealth is allegedly at an all time high in america and yet you read a headline like this 10 percent of adults did not have enough to eat in the previous 7 days Census Bureau stats show an increasing number of people are struggling with rent food and job losses due to covert so this was the Census Bureau households polls survey and they i guess they looked at 249200000 American Adults and they found that 134200000 had enough food of the right type 63800000 had enough food not necessarily the right type 17300000 sometimes to not have enough to eat 4900000 often did not have enough to eat and 29000000 did not report the grail arity of just trying to have minimum calorie intake per capita to keep workers alive to click on from their casino gulag hubbles of which they may or may not have to pay for their own. Toilet paper the corporation of course has Artificial Intelligence tools and data big data as its called to maximize their yield the average consumer is the on the other
Stimulus for months but have remained far apart on the amount necessary to combat the pandemic so lets waste no time and bring in towson investigative journalist ben swan and tobin smith c. E. O. Of transforming research to discuss thank you both for being here ben i want to get right to you here since lawmakers from both sides have been saying for months that another round of stimulus is needed why are they so far apart on the details. Or is the cost of this whole thing i mean democrats of come down a little bit this latest you know bill that they put forth about 2. 00 trillion dollars thats about a trillion dollars less than where they had been so there are some compromise there hard to believe that 2. 4 trillion is a compromise but lets take a look at some of the things they want to do here because obviously this includes as you said a new round of 600. 00 stimulus checks but on top of those that new out of 600. 00 stimulus checks comes another round of 1200. 00 stimulus checks for
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