It is powerball election, there is still a chance, 1 in 292.2 million. todd: joe concha joins us, that is not a republican pollster saying that, that is somebody that works for charlie crist, what do you make and what should we take away from admission like that? joe: 1 in 1 292,000, you are saying there is a chance? ron desantis is seen by many in the democratic party biggest threat to their power by far on national level, especially if donald trump does not seek the republican nomination. in term of the governor s race, charlie crist, a former republican, there has not been a republican governor in the state of florida in 20 years, talking about a 50/50 state in terms of voter registration with democrats and republicans and
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The trend map right now it s encouraging. i ve been at this more than two years and the to see the green. green means cases are down. 47 states now that are reporting fewer new infections this week compared to data from last week. some from a high base line but at least 47 states reporting fewer cases this week. only one state trending up. the rest holding steady. you can see first here, 803,000 was our omicron peak. down to 291,000 cases. that s almost a straight line drop but as you know, it s significant drop and drops fast but still 291,000, nearly 292,000 new infections. at what point do you say the country is out of the storm? well, we re definitely not out of the storm. we have about 3,000 people a day dying as well. i think you have to make that judgment based on the data. let s take a look at the uk. they ve had the same omicron peak. they started plummeting in terms of numbers from about 200 to
So you mentioned restaurants and bars can t get enough staff, that s true. if we look inside the restaurant industry, 292,000 jobs were added last month in leisure and hospitality. about 198,000 were bars and restaurants. that s where the hiring has been aggressive. a lot of people getting back to work. that said, in the bars and restaurants industry we re still down 2.5 million jobs from february of 2020. that s a lot of jobs. a lot of folks make their living in the restaurant and bar industry. there s 12.5 million americans who used to work in that industry before the pandemic began. a lot of folks are still out. 110,000 restaurants still closed in america in 2020 due to the pandemic. that s a lot of people. we have a lot of long-term unemployed people in the economy, 3.8 million. folks that have been out of work for 27 weeks or more. the longer you re out of the work force, the harder it is to get back in, especially with the
Extended unemployment benefits. having said all that, this was a good number, bill you have more than half a million jobs in the month of may. unemployment rate ticking down to 5.8%. best performing sector hospitality and leisure indicating clearly a reopening of the economy. even here we look at 292,000 jobs created in hospitality. that s below where we were in the pandemic. indicating people don t want to go back to work in hospitality and leisure because they are getting all this free money. april and march were revised upward and i would point out that we continue to see growth in this economy and a picture of jobs that is good and not too hot. that it will trigger the federal reserve to take their foot off the gas and start raising interest rates. i think the conversation about lifting interest rates off of the bottom is beginning to