the gop. today, fresh perspectives. so let s fete right to it. first up, an interview with a biden aide. when it comes to joe biden, there s been a sudden shift in the narrative wins. i m sure you felt it. headlines are describing this week as one of the biggest and best of the biden presidency, filled with political wins and policy victories and many of those so-called wins happening when he was in isolation with covid. another win this weekend is now that he s covid free. so is the press pulling all of it together? is the news getting through? some prominent democrats don t think so, tweeting the media two weeks ago are saying biden was responsible for inflation and high gas prices. but the shift in the winds doesn t blow away inflation or monkeypox or homelessness or illegal border crossings. there is still many reasons for the media to be skeptical. one person who can help us is michael larosa, who worked for biden s campaign in 2020. and he joined the administration as
when you have the catastrophe like we had on 95, we realized everyone needed to come together. our state government and our unions in pennsylvania to make sure we could do that rebuild effort. we had to collaborate to make sure we got the funding and i want to thank the president for making sure all the funding we needed would be there. we had to collaborate with engineers and lawyers and others to create the the plan. importantly, we had to work the building trades had a committed to me they would work 24/7 to get this done. collaboration was key and we don t have much of that anymore. i hope this can be an example of what happens when people collaborate and come together. it has an outgrowth of that. people feel empowered. empowered to demonstrate real leadership.
she quit her job this summer and said it s a labor market revolution. i ve done it since i was 15. i love the customer service, hospitality industry. i love putting a smile on people s faces. but it got to a point where i thought i was giving a little too much of myself. reporter: as a bar back in tennessee, she gets $5.10 minimum wage. with fewer customers coming in, that meant fewer tips with more responsibility. . every day i had to enforce certain things where i m like this is not in my job description. and now i m being paid less. . more than 1 million people quit their leisure and hospitality jobs in november, with hundreds of thousands more quitting low wage retail and health care jobs. there s still 10.6 million unpaid positions. . people feel empowered, and they should.
there are still 10.6 million unfilled positions. people feel empowered. and they should because the job market is tight. if they re not happy with what they re doing. so i think quit rates will be high for a long time to come. as omicron sweeps the country, this silence is what restaurant owners are facing. michael dorf ceo of city winery says he is doing everything to keep the staff he has left, even with less business. we re still hiring as ironic as that is. he normally operates with 1,200 employees across his restaurant and music venues. we re only up to about 950 around the country. reporter: have you seen people quitting at a higher rate than usual? yeah, for sure. we see people quit on the spot. reporter: he says he has risen wages to above $15 an hour
well, people feel empowered by the internet, for example. right now online it s created this entire community called #saveminiskirt. on the ugandan parliament, itself, some outspoken members have said, look, when women wear provocative clothing, when they wear short skirts, it invites trouble. other parliament members are saying, look, this goes against basic constitutional freedoms so there s a lot of back and forthright now. can men wear shorts? men can wear shorts. can they wear their pants hiked up to their belts? as long as they don t wear miniskirts. hiked up to their chest. they re like put those down on your hips where they belong. seriously, the men are fine. they re just doing it to ladies. not fair. thank you. appreciate that. jumping out of an airplane is scary, but take a look at this first time sky diver. she did it as part of her birthday celebration. her 90th birthday celebration. see how she did that next.