Pandemic spread throughout the United States over the past 13 weeks. And while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, President Trump has chosen to suspend visas of Foreign Workers who would be in direct competition with American Workers. The new executive order suspends h1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for Agricultural Workers and l1 visas that allow multinational corporations to transfer their employees into the United States. As well as j1 visas for work and studybased exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. These impact, of course, the president s executive order, its much larger than anyone could have expected. It will affect hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers seeking those visas, of course, and state Department Data shows that is a big number. That of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h1b
Pandemic spread throughout the United States over the past 13 weeks. And while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, President Trump has chosen to suspend visas of Foreign Workers who would be in direct competition with American Workers. The new executive order suspends h1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for Agricultural Workers and l1 visas that allow multinational corporations to transfer their employees into the United States. As well as j1 visas for work and studybased exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. These impact, of course, the president s executive order, its much larger than anyone could have expected. It will affect hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers seeking those visas, of course, and state Department Data shows that is a big number. That of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h1b
Rolling hill country of northern maryland, the holders rallying to the call for more food, join the growing army of Victory Gardeners. This is dad holder. He helps with the heavy work. Mother, well, she helps with most everything. Grandpa holder, he says the only honest way to get a mess of peas or a crown of glory is to work for it. Brother bill is in the army. But dick, 14, takes his place. And this is jane, just 16. Grandpa and dad always kept garden plans in their garden plans in their heads but Victory Garden plans should be on paper. So they will study state and federal bulletins, which have been written to serve as guides in Victory Gardens. Now lets see on this little model of their quarter acre garden the plan they work out. Heres the early garden. Here, potatoes. Then two double rows of peas early, medium and late. One row of cabbage. Double row of carrots and beets. Half a row each. One double row of greens, spinach, mustard and chard. Tomatoes. Peppers, half a roll. Radishe
Drew gruber as the executive director of civil war trails, lives in williamsburg with his wife kate, their two cats, he enjoys reading, oysters, brown liquor and peace and quiet. Drew gruber. [applause] [laughter] [applause] i am going to introduce my coauthor, doug crenshaw, who is going to lecture about williamsburg today. [laughter] i sat down last night to review notes, and i couldnt think couldnt help but think about how ryan ended his presentation yesterday. It caused me to rewrite the whole thing. Thanks, ryan. Forgotten battles is a cool thing and i was going to open with a quote and then i thought about it, we have a morbid fascination with body count, only big, bloody battles are important. Then Richard Lewis said last night, the guy who falls from dysentery, that is his forgotten battle and certainly his familys forgotten battle. At the one guy on picket one night by himself on a cold day who is shut down, that is probably his most important battle. So i am going to open wit
This u. S. Department of agriculture film provides instructions to help citizens grow their own fruits and vegetables during world war on this farm in the rolling hill country of northern maryland, the holders rallying to the call for more food, join the growing army of Victory Gardeners. This is dad holder. He helps with the heavy work. Mother, well, she helps with most everything. Grandpa holder, he says the only honest way to get a mess of peas or a crown of glory is to work for it. Brother bill is in the army. But dick, 14, takes his place. And this is jane, just 16. Grandpa and dad always garden plans in their heads but Victory Garden plans should be on paper. So they will study state and federal bulletins, which have been written to serve as guides in Victory Gardens. Now lets see on this inaudible little model of their quarter acre garden the plan they work out. Heres the early garden. Here, potatoes. Then two double rows of peas early, medium and late. One row of cabbage. Doubl