You can also send us a text this morning, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, and otherwise catch up with us on social media. That is facebook. Com cspan and cspanwj. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now if you are an essential worker in this country. As you are calling in, we show you this map from abc news of the 46 states and washington, d. C. That have enacted policies to close nonessential businesses in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The exact number of essential by. Oyees, hard to come there is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. Atut 7 million employees Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force is employed in essential operations. The standard
An exact number of essential employees, hard to come by. 49one estimate tomorrow million to 62 million workers. That is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. About 7 million employees at Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes specifically to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force is employed in essential operations. The standard definition of essential comes from the 2013 essential services act, generally defined as someone who performs work involving the safety of human life and the protection of property. Of course, those in the Health Care Industry and law enforcement, Food Security and Food Production included under that definition, but as fox news notes in their story, states have been free to add their own designations of what is an essential business in their sta
And amazon tops 1000. Stocks up 50 and on course for a 1 trillion sale tag. 1 trillion in sales. Yvonne a trillion dollar company, yvonne. Speaking of trillions, we saw on interesting reaction in the bond markets. Again, another day where yields the house and Senate Finally passed a tax reform package. Theaps all of this by on rumor in salem the news is affecting not only equities, but also the bond markets as well. Yvonne yes. Callsall of the extreme for yield curves to flatten, it seems like we are pushing back on that now. We are seeing a steepening here as we close 2017, betty. Reaction in the equity markets. Kind of a collective shrug. S p trading flat, and closing unchanged. Same with the nasdaq. The dow down about 30 points. Not setting up for a really recession. Of course we are waiting for the boj. Yvonne we saw a bit of a rally that petered out on wall street. Here is how we are. So on to new asia, zealand. A gross load in the third but a healthier picture than what economist
The trial, and to some degrees, thats what were talking about this afternoon in our sessions on witch city and also our keynote speech by professor foote on gallows hill. Just one thought for me before i introduce the panel for the panel discussion, and that is that its my sincere hope that the work of the past couple years to recognize the execution site at proctors ledge can hopefully be a new start, a fresh beginning for salem to really recognize officially and formally this troubled history. And i just want to say, i probably should have said this this morning when the mayor was here, but the mayor and her staff, and everyone in the city of salem, i think, has just been incredibly supportive. When we first came forward to them as a member of the gallows hill team and told them that we had the execution site, i didnt know what the response would be. And some of us were saying, like mary and i were saying, wow, how are we gonna raise money to build the memorial and what do we do . An
The trial, and to some degrees, thats what were talking about this afternoon in our sessions on witch city and also our keynote speech by professor foote on gallows hill. Just one thought for me before i introduce the panel for the panel discussion, and that is that its my sincere hope that the work of the past couple years to recognize the execution site at proctors ledge can hopefully be a new start, a fresh beginning for salem to really recognize officially and formally this troubled history. And i just want to say, i probably should have said this this morning when the mayor was here, but the mayor and her staff, and everyone in the city of salem, i think, has just been incredibly supportive. When we first came forward to them as a member of the gallows hill team and told them that we had the execution site, i didnt know what the response would be. And some of us were saying, like mary and i were saying, wow, how are we gonna raise money to build the memorial and what do we do . An