If you have been following the news in recent years i imagine that you like me have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a jerefugee experience in communist vietnam in 1975, but in many ways it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at icet, refugees suffocating in meat trucks. Theyre crowding onto leaking boats, theyre drowning the bodies of those unable to cross to safety are washing up. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being up rooted by conflict all around the world. Were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other war torn regions. Especially in the past couple of years it has been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlements like so many other topics today has become a polarizing topic. On one hand opposition has been fierce
Plan, we have been talking about it for a long time. I know you are headed to a meeting pretty soon, so you might have to leave early, but what can you tell us about the details of this tax plan . Guest we are excited that the republican tax plan will simplify the tax code, it will broaden the base of taxpayers, so that we can lower rates of all americans, and really get the economy moving again. We would like to see more robust gdp growth. We think that there are specific features of this tax plan that can make a substantial contribution. First would be bringing back the trillions of dollars in assets that are currently overseas as a consequence of a tax code that seems to disadvantage america to the betterment of other jurisdictions by having one of the highest Corporate Tax rates in the world. Bringing those dollars back will inject some immediate vibrance into our economy. We are also excited about bringing down the Corporate Tax rate. Because we have one of the highest tax rates i
The first trillion dollar company, the details on jeff bezos power lunch. Welcome, everybody im brian sullivans better looking twin brother lets look at the markets. The dow, s p and nasdaq hitting record highs again today telecon and Consumer Discretionary are the best performing sectors not a lot but enough, the nasdaq and the s p may be down a bit right now but hitting lord highs, verizon, merck, boeing, disney are your dow leaders. Boeings move comes on the back of 10 gain yesterday. On the flip side, the transports are having their worst day in over a month 5 below their record high get this, just breaking a few minutes ago, adp shares, they probably make your payroll checks, soaring on news that bill Ackmans Pershing Square is building a stake in the company. Im Michelle Carusocabrera its the busiest names of the earnings season. Check out the names, verizon, u. P. S. , adp, mastercard, twit to name a few lr then the afterthebell biggies, and this is a biggie, amazon, starbucks a
Next on reel america, jet Passenger Service began in late 1950s in the United States and Pan American Airlines started transatlantic flights with boeing 707 in october 1958. Pan ams 12 minute film promotes the concept of trans atlantic jet Passenger Service by documenting a flight from new york to london. Sky over the atlantic. The vast air ocean when he saled from europe to america a few hundred years ago in over two long months. The same air ocean over the atlantic probably did not seem as endless to Charles Lindbergh when he flew from new york to paris 30 years ago. Still it took over 33 lonely hours. Today that same atlantic air ocean leaving columbus two months and lindberghs 33 hours in its wake zooms by in a dramatic break through. The year 1954 marked an historic event in the history of aviation. A new flight was inaugurated called flight 1,000. There was nothing unusual about airport operations before flight 1,000s takeoff. It was duly announced and passengers checked in. Flig
Eastern on cspan 2. Next on real america, jet Passenger Service began in the late 1950s in the United States and Pan American Airlines started with the boeing 707 in october of 1958. Panams 12 minute film promotes the concept of trans atlantic jet Passenger Service by documenting a flight from new york to london. Sky over the atlantic, the vast endlessly for columbus when he sailed from europe to america a few hundred years ago in over two long months. The same air ocean over the atlantic did not seem as endless to lind berg when he flew from new york to paris some 30 years ago but still it took 33 lonely hours. Today that same atlantic air ocean leaving columbus two months and lindbergs 33 hours in its wake, zooms by in a dramatic breakthrough. The year 1954, marked a historic event in the history of aviation. A new flight was inaugurated. It was called flight 1000. There was nothing unusual about the airport operations before flight 1000s takeoff it was duly announced and passengers