Feel its impacts for some time to come. The energy and Commerce Committee has been conducting oversight of the trauma administrations response to this crisis in this subcommittee is charged with overseeing the ftcs response is the primary federal agency tasked with overseeing our nations telecommute occasions infrastructure and charged with administrating the universal Service Program at no point has Broadband Service in the work done by the fcc but more important to americans as it is right now. For many of us highspeed broadband has become the means by which we work, live and stay healthy. In the last seven months the internet has become the lifeline we use to buy groceries, see doctors and interact with the outside world. Zoom has become a verb and americans all over the country are connecting over video chat for virtual worship, family reunions and so much more. In so many ways broadband has become the glue holding our society together as our nation and the world weathers this stor
Oversight of the trauma administrations response to this crisis in this subcommittee is charged with overseeing the ftcs response is the primary federal agency tasked with overseeing our nations telecommute occasions infrastructure and charged with administrating the universal Service Program at no point has Broadband Service in the work done by the fcc but more important to americans as it is right now. For many of us highspeed broadband has become the means by which we work, live and stay healthy. In the last seven months the internet has become the lifeline we use to buy groceries, see doctors and interact with the outside world. Zoom has become a verb and americans all over the country are connecting over video chat for virtual worship, family reunions and so much more. In so many ways broadband has become the glue holding our society together as our nation and the world weathers this storm. But the Digital Divide is growing has more americans struggle to pay their bills and stay c
Morning. And the nasdaq is down by 182 points a lot of this is whats happening in europe right now. You dont just look at the oversees market but were going to take our queues from what is happening there. You can see the ftse down by 3. 4 and the other markets are down by more and a lot of this is coming in the last few hours. They could be considering a second lock down as covid cases there have soared theyre back to the levels in may. Theyre concerned about whats happening with the number of cases and the hospitalizations admissions doubling every 8 days theyre now looking at 6,000 cases a day and again theres been some talk of a potential second lock down there now they want to make sure that schools can stay open and that some businesses could stay open but just the threat of that, the potential for the second wave coming is enough to push all of the stocks in europe into the red. If you take a look at whats been happening with travel and leisure stocks they were down by 6 earlier
Economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Day welcome to the stream im josh rushing sitting in for me ok today from my home here in Fairfax Virginia think you for joining me now right off the bat if youre watching on you tube you see that chad over there the box those are those are live get your questions in there will try to get him to me and well try to get him in the show as were going i want to be a part of this with me now today were talking about. A chick kids return to school in the u. S. Now im coming to you from Fairfax Virginia this is one of the 10 Largest School districts in the country all around 190000 students here and i had to make a decision as appeared this week do i want my children or the entire school year either to return to school in person or to do it online and what you
Hey welcome to the stream im josh rushing sitting in for me ok today from my home here in Fairfax Virginia think you for joining me now right off the bat if youre watching on you tube you see that chad over there the box those are those are live get your questions in there will try to get him to me and well try to get him in the show as were going i want to be a part of this with me now today were talking about. A chick kids return to school in the u. S. Now on committee from Fairfax Virginia this is one of the 10 Largest School districts in the country all around 190000 students here and i had to make a decision as a parent this week do i want my children for the entire school year either to return to school in person or to do it online and what you made that choice you were pretty much committed to it i have 4 kids in School System here that meant it so were going to kindergarten so were going to high school so were going to miss school on one going into 5th grade and we had to make