Increased 5. 4 over a year earlier. Senate committee of banking will come to order. Today our economy is growing because of the american Rescue Plan. In the bidenharris administrations leadership. Putting shots and money in pockets families have extra to pay the bills. Beginning today, july 15th, most parents will see a 250 or 300 monthly payment in their Bank Account for each child. In my state 92 of children are eligible. Small businesses are reopening their doors. Workers are safely going back to work at higher wages. Last month we added 850,000 jobs to the economy since biden took office. We gained 3 million more jobs, more than in the first five moves any presidency in modern history. Not only the jobs numbers but theuality of these jobs. For the first time in decades workers are starting to gain some power in our economy, the power to negotiate higher wages, the power to get better working conditions, the power to have more control over their schedules and stronger benefits, and
That is a discussion we are going to be having on an ongoing basis. We talked about some of the things at the last meeting, and we will talk about them of the next meeting a couple of weeks. Sen. Toomey i think that is important. Let me close with a question on a central make digital currency. During your testimony yesterday, i sensed what i wasnt sure, but thought might be a change in your tone about the virtues of a central bank digital currency being issued by the fed. One of the things you said yesterday if that one of the stronger arguments in favor of a cbdc is that you wouldnt need stable coins if you had a stable u. S. Currency. Isnt the reverse also true . If you have stable coins, cryptocurrencies and use, then maybe theres no need for a central bank digital currency. It is my view that the development of a central bank digital currency by the fed would require congressional authorization. I wonder if you share that view. Secondly, it is still not clear to me what problem a c
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the final frontier. and begin this hour with the latest on the fight against the coronavirus. just last night, texas governor greg abbott issued an executive order banning vaccine mandates statewide, a direct rebuke of president biden s plan to mandate vaccines or testing for government workers. he called president biden s mandate federal overreach. he s not alone. 24 attorneys general have threatened legal action over the federal rule. joining me now is heidi przybyla. some have no concerns at all. i m outside of colubia sports and the ceo says, we opposite in over 90 countries. we don t have a problem. in fact, when he looks around the country here in the u.s., he thinks this is the only country that actually has a problem. when you talk to ceos, though, for instance, in the deep south, as i did, ceo lex taylor, of a machine parts company in mississippi, he says, i have tried to give incentives to get vaccinated and yet only 30% of my population, of my employees are vac
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