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and late yesterday, the chancellor announced the minimum wage is to go up by more than a pound, to £11.44 per hour, from april next year. and jeremy hunt decided the rate would also apply to 21 and 22 year olds for the first time. here s our econmics corrrespondent, andy verity. ona cold, on a cold, damp day at the south london market, ask what they want the government to do something about and you will hear two big concerns that haven t gone away. energy and food. , ., , ., , food. used to get six or seven oran . es food. used to get six or seven oranges for food. used to get six or seven oranges for a food. used to get six or seven oranges for a pound, - food. used to get six or seven oranges for a pound, now - food. used to get six or seven oranges for a pound, now it i food. used to get six or seven i oranges for a pound, now it has five. lemons, ten for a pound, now 87 for a pound. it is hard for the customer, it is hard for the customer, it is hard for us as ....
Good morning, its wednesday, september 20th. We are following a number of stories. President trump was America First se u. N. And steps up his warnings to north korea meanwhile, republican as far as see daylight on Health Care Reform. Some gop governors arent so sure about that. The Russian Investigation rolls on with new details on whos paying the president s legal bills but first, two Natural Disasters unfolding in real time. Rescue efforts happening right now in mexico after a powerful earthquake ripped through that country yesterday and Hurricane Maria about to slam directly into puerto rico. Well go straight to meteorologist bill karins with a check on the storms latest track. Bill. Power knoc ....
Future. vaughn hillyard, beaver dam, wisconsin. joining me now is jake levine, former energy and climate aide to president obama. i had michael mann on last hour talking about the environment and one of the things was the u.n. climate report and one of the things he said could jumpstart progress on fighting climate change is to put a price on carbon from a policy standpoint. what would that look like? reporter: well, there is plenty nice to be here, katie, happy black friday. there are plenty of ways that policymakers have sought to price carbon. the most straightforward way that you ve probably heard of is a carbon tax. and that s something that even republicans have proposed in our latest congress. there are other pricing mechanisms in california. we have a system here called cap and trade, which sets a cap in terms of the amount of emissions that certain industries are allowed to emit. ....
Shoes. i want to get it started with she s a student at new york university. majoring in environmental studies and supports elizabeth warren. your proposal is unclear wlrnt you support a carbon tax, what deters you? and what would you put in place. so, we should certainly price carbon. i think the best possible path to do that is through a cap and trade system. there would be allowances granted or sold. to polluters. not just in the energy sector. but in transportation, as well as industrial sector. cement. steel. the chemicals that we produce. there would be a set number of allowances to decrease every single year because the clock is running. we have more than ten years left. we don t have time to experiment. i think that is the best possible path to ensure there s ....
Behaves in the world, throwing out something that works because you don t like it, but it works, you re actually inviting a much more active path. mike barnicle? another deal on the verge of being shredded, the paris accord. hasn t been spoken about much. the trump administration is on the path of destroying the paris accord. we had a two-day conference at yale that ended yesterday. secretary jim backer, former republican treasury and secretary of state came. he spoke about the need to price carbon. hank paulson, former republican secretary of treasury, jeff immelt, general electric. we had a group of former secretaries of energy and all of whom talked about how what we re seeing today should convince people that they need to move on climate change. irma, first hurricane to ever ....