Moratorium on evictions during the coronavirus pandemic. Later, the moodys analytics chief economist joins us to talk about the state of the u. S. Economy. Host the house and senate are one week into what should be there august resource recess. Negotiationsld and between Democratic Leaders and the white house appear to have yielded no result, certainly, no agreement on additional coronavirus pandemic relief measures. Good morning. It is friday, august 7, 2020. This first hour, we will ask you your message to congress, in particular, congressional leaders on pandemic relief. Here are the lines. We welcome your text messages. Make sure you tell us your name and where you are texting from. Ur handle on twitter we also welcome your comments on facebook. A very similar sentiment expressed in headlines and reporting of capitol hill publications and other publications on those negotiations which ended last night well into the evening. This is roll call. Show you the report just out from the A
Chatter]nible by diane,joined president and ceo of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, to talk about the federal moratorium about to expire on evictions in the u. S. Thank you for being with us this morning. Thank you for having me. Lets start with your organization. What does your group do . Diane it is a Membership Organization about advancing federal policy solutions to ensure low income people have affordable, accessible homes. Host give us an idea how many renters there are in the u. S. Currently. There are about 43 million renter households, over 100 Million People in those households who rent. Ant since the pandemic, idea on evictions. Typically in the u. S. In a month, how many people are evicted from their apartments or home over failure to pay rent . And since the pandemic, how has that problem increased, or has it . Diane the risk of evictions has certainly increased because of the financial fallout as a result. In order to understand the crisis, the eviction crisis w
In the pacific. Welcome to washington journal. Washington journal on the 75th anniversary. Guest thank you. I am glad to be here. Host we have heard from harry truman after the hiroshima bombing. From your research and the study of the war and the bombings in particular, why did harry truman do it . I think the decision to use the bomb was really implicit in the manhattan project, so it was really assumed from the time, for the time truman came to office in ,pril after the death of fdr that this weapon, if it worked, it would be used. So it may be more accurate to say that there was a nondecision essentially. Truman did not decide to projecte, to stop a that was very much entrained when he came into office. The assumption had been made that if we had built the bomb, if we had the bomb, we would use the bomb in order to bring the war to an end, but i think from the perspective we have now that the atomic bomb, you know, is different, essentially different, from general weapon, that is s
Hill, House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer held a briefing with reporters to talk about negotiations taking place on future Coronavirus Relief legislation. This is half an hour. Rep. Pelosi good morning, ask everyone. We gather here today in the midst of our negotiations on how we can defeat the virus, how we can keep people employed, how we can put money in the pockets of the American People. To do so in a way that is valuesbased and can be done with the most, shall we say, what would be the word . Bipartisanship possible. That is our goal. It is what we have done four times already with covid hills. Four times, all bipartisan. We need that because we have to have a signature from the president and a vote in the senate. But we stand by our heroes act, which does just that, keeps people working. Healthcare care workers, first responders, sanitation, transportation, etc. Teachers, teachers, teachers. Next is to end the virus, contain the virus through test
Learning is more robust than before. Reporter the announcement comes amid a surge in covid19 cases statewide and despite a push to reopen schools the top teacher said now isnt the time. I do think that if school had to be open tomorrow, [ inaudible ] and that is a ecision that i think is a good improve, San Francisco schools hope to offer a gradual hybrid type of inperson and Distance Learning combination for some. Sumptter is a stayathome mom and knows it may be harder for other families. Her kids school adapted to Online Learning which looks like it is going to stick around. It went well. It was just tedious. Reporter united educators of San Francisco said it is important to Work Together to make sure that Distance Learning it the best that it could be. Meantime details of how the district plans to work are expected by the end of the month. In San Francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area. In san jose theyre asking the parents for input. San jose unified is reviewing the results of a P