Digital citizenship pandemic, political information and action in 2020. I am rebekah tromble, director George Washington universitys institute for data, democracy and politics and and i am pleam welcome you to our conference. Today we had the opportunity to speak to a number of renowned experts, academics, journalists, medical and Public Health professionals as well as grassrootsro activists about how the coronavirus pandemic has reshaped digital communication, campaigning and activism in the lead up to what is the most consequential elections in this nations history. We will discuss thehe challengef Fact Checking political claims in real time, the targeting and effects of this information on communities of color, potential postelection violence being organizedol online and much, muh more. However, before we begin our first panel i would like to invite you to watch a few remarks from George Washington universitys president. Good morning. Im thomas leblanc, president of the George Washi
When looking at fiscal years 20, 21 and 2122, its important to note the significant reduction in state revenue state reassignment, ab109 dollars and while they continue to remain fairly stable, ab109 allocation have been significantly reduced. We are projecting an increase in Grant Funding from the star, which grant through department of publichealth, which is the supporting treatment and reducing recidivism grant, and two additional grants that adult probation has applied for to assist in expanding housing opportunities and treatment for justice involved people with Mental Health and co occurring disorders. Both our bureau of justice funding opportunities that we are very hopeful that we be competitive and eventually decide. To help with that program and then certainly an increase due to the other two grant opportunities if wore fortunate to get those. The increase in rent from 20192021 is over a Million Dollars. And that is due to the departments pending relocation to 945 bryant in t
Diego, it will be Online Learning only for the rest of this year. That is shut down. The l. A. Teachers union demanded medicare for all and the defunding of the Police Department as a condition for reopening. What has that got to do with education . Leftist politics rules and the largely minority student body in Southern California will be deprived of a meaningful education. All right. Lets talk about money. Earnings season has begun. Look at delta. Lowest revenue in 30 years, 3 billion forked out for virus expenses, burning through 27 million a day. That shows you how tough it is for airlines these days. The stock down a little premarket. Overall, a tiny bounce back for the overall market. Big tech largely in the red this morning. We do have some decent earnings from some big banks and thats giving the markets a very very modest boost. The dow is looking for a very small gain, maybe up 10 or 12 points. And we have the s p and nasdaq on the downside. Thats premarket. All right. Now loo
Disney has postponed its plans to reopen disneyland in anaheim, california, indefinitely. We will talk about that. It was a volatile day on wall street. Stocks rising nonetheless. I want to bring in kailey leinz, who has been following it with a choppy session, but still ending about 1 higher. What happened . We saw the fluctuations between positive and negative territory until the last hour of trading. We saw the furious rally into the close. Likely people taking advantage, using it as a buying opportunity. One caveat is the volume was about 17 below average for the past 20 days. Obviously, investors trying to take advantage from yesterday, despite the fact we are seeing worsening headlines, in regards to the spread of the coronavirus. Texas and florida having to pause reopening because of researching cases. Research in cases. They took part in the rally, smallcap kind of a proxy for the recovery story. They are more domestically oriented. The nasdaq lagged marginally, but it wasnt te
All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Im london breed, im mayor of San Francisco. And today we are joined by the department of Emergency Management, director carol as well as the department of Public Health director, dr. Grant coal fashion. Colfax. We are joined by police chief scott as well as our sheriff and the director of homelessness and housing services, abigail kahn. Today we want to provide a few updates of where we are and and some very serious challenges that we face. So far as of today, we have confirmed 797 cases and sadly 13 people have lost their lives due to the virus. The covid19 virus. And we had said all along that this would be very challenging, and in fact, in the past week or so, dr. Colfax and i continued to make it clear that it is of course important to stay at home as much as possible. Because the fact is the worst is yet to come. And today, unfortunately, we have a situation that we knew could potentially happen in one of our congregate living settings. An outb