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able to achieve without also acknowledging the cataclysmic situation american women find themselves in today. one that threatens to wipe away many of the advancements we re supposedly celebrating. let s start with the unemployment crisis. the latest jobs report reveals that overall unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 6.2%. that number doesn t tell the whole story. for example, since the pandemic hit, the retail sector has lost nearly 363,000 jobs, 98% of which belong to women. pandemic related job losses are hitting women of color especially hard. we talk about that a lot. compared to this time last year, total employment for white women is down just over 5%. for black and latino women, that rate is nearly double. a bunch of factors continue to contribute to the disproportional impact on women of color, including an overrepresentation in industries that have been hit hardest such as hospitality and leisure. in addition, the coronavirus crisis is forcing an impossi ....
was so desperately needed, urgently needed. this plan is going to make it possible to cut child poverty in half. i m going to succeed. we re going to succeed moving forward. look, the american people strongly support this. that s the key here. as someone who spent the entire primary campaign criticizing joe biden, this weekend, the president did what i thought he couldn t, or just wouldn t, by getting results on what undeniably is the most pro-worker, anti-poverty accomplishment by an american president since lyndon johnson. don t take my word for it. listen to the senate budget committee chair, a certain bernie sanders, who called it, quote, the most significant piece of legislation to benefit working families in the modern history of this country. and he s right. i mean, how else to describe a bill that halves child poverty. halves it, thanks to $1400 direct payments, survival checks, a typical family of four gets $5600 in new payments or $7600 in new payments if ....
office, our state s leaders had come together to pass bipartisan measures that were making a difference. in reading and math, our student were in the top. that reveals what good teachers will do if the system will let them. the problem was, this success wasn t shared. a significant achievement gap between students of different races remain. so we set out to do our best to close it. i urge faster interventions and promote science and excellence skills in schools and propose paying bonuses to our best teachers. i refuse to weaken testing standards and instead raise them. students now many massachusetts have to pass an exam in math and english and i added a science requirement as well. i put in place a merit scholarship for all those students who excelled the top 25% of students in each high school in massachusetts were awarded a john and abigail scholarship, four years of learning. and not only did our test scores improve, we also narrowed the achievement gap. they were n ....
governors whose states have been hit hard. and also, a talk with john hickenlooper about the wildfires in colorado. this is state of the union and i m candy crowley. white a fight in the white house. a major victory in the supreme court followed by a victory of a different sort on the house floor. the president used the trappings of this case in the formality of the east room to suggest in history and words that the supreme court settled the controversy over his health care law. today was a victory for people all over this country. as the president tried to close the books on the health care debate, his republican rival was writing the next chapter. obama care was bad policy yesterday. it is bad policy dye. it is bad policy today. while trying to wring the politics out of it, they were equally trying to put the politics into the botched gun running sting. the republican-led house cited attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress for failing to share ....
an hour before her death by someone in the very hotel room where she died, according to ed winter, the assistant coroner here. the person left the room and then came back about an hour later and found whitney houston s body inside the bathtub. and then ed winter said her body was removed from the bathtub. they tried to revive her. they coop revive her. of course, at 3:55 a.m. pacific time she was pronounced dead. as you know, you had been covering these beats when stars die, when people die. they want to do toxicology reports. and usually they have some sort of idea just from doing the autopsy which, by the way, has been completely. they might have an idea or a suspicion about how that person died. but using the toxicology reports, that s the final word. and i pose that question to ed winter a short time ago during a briefing. and i spoke to him afterwards, as well. here s part of our conversation at the briefing. and i ll tell but our conversation afterwards toxicology ....