The official Government Jobs Numbers came out today. Unemployment is up far higherthanexpected, close to 14 million americans say they want to work but cannot find a job. That is an old story. Here is the new twist. At the very moment that unemployment is rising, fewer people are working, american businesses say they cant find employees. And its obvious they cant. Go to the nearest strip mall and count the help wanted signs on the doors, they are everywhere. Restaurants are closing because they cant find anyone to hire, so our manufacturing plants. That means america now has far too many workers, but simultaneously, far too few workers. How can that be . Another question. What happened to all of the Consumer Products . Many of the things that you buy add me to buy are more expensive than they have ever been. Inflation is real. At the same time, a lot of product seem to have gone missing complete we. The United States is currently experiencing shortages of chicken, generators, ketchup,
Unemployment is up far higherthanexpected. Close to 14 million americans say they want to work but cannot find a job. That is an old story. Here is the new twist. At the very moment that unemployment is rising, fewer people are working, american businesses say they cant find employees. And its obvious they cant. Go to the nearest strip mall and count the help wanted signs on the doors, they are everywhere. Restaurants are closing because they cant find anyone to hire, so are manufacturing plants. That means america now has far too many workers, but simultaneously, far too few workers. How can that be . Another question. T what happened to all of the Consumer Products . Many of the things that you buy and need to buy are more expensive than they have ever been. Inflation is real. At the same time, a lot of products seem to have gone missing completely. The United States is currently experiencing shortages of chicken, generators, ketchup, bicycles, diapers, and munition, automobiles, pla
Hello im katty kay, and welcome to the bbc s special coverage of president joe biden s first address before a Joint Session of congress. In the hour or so ahead well hear mr biden make his case for a multi trillion Dollar Overhaul of the very fabric of the nation. According to early excerpts hes due to say that america is on the move again. Turning peril into possibility. Crisis into opportunity. Setback into strength. the setting will the same as many such addresses, but the evening will be so different unique. Only 200 people will be in attendance, usually there are eight times that number. Masks are mandatory. Handshakes are forbidden. And for the first time in history, two women will be sitting behind the president as he speaks Vice President Kamala Harris, and House Speaker nancy pelosi. So thats the setting, what about the politics, and the policy. Well, mr biden s plan to lay out what would be the biggest overhaul of the role of government in decades. His American Families pla
Hours. Lets begin our coverage with our jeremy diamond. He joins us at the white house. Good morning, jeremy. Do you have a sense of i mean, they cant control what the reporters ask, but do you have a sense of what the administration wants to convey in this Press Conference . Well, and thats the critical decision there, poppy. What the administration wants to convey here, what the president wants to focus on during this News Conference, and then there are the topics that the president is going to face questions on during this first News Conference of his presidency. Look, President Biden is going to come out today and wants to talk about what hes accomplished in his first 64 days in office. Getting vaccinations to a pace of about 2 1 2 million vaccines per day. Crossing that 100 million vaccines goal within 60 days in office, rather than the 100 days that he had first laid out. The 1. 9 trillion Coronavirus Relief bill, which he signed into law in recent weeks and the checks that have
Counting the cost of coronavirus, more than 200 thousand people have died from covid 19 in india but experts say the real total is much higher. And, if a picture is worth a thousand words, whats a smirk like that worth . More than you might think, in this nft world of ours. Hello im Laura Trevelyan In Washington, Christian Fraser is in london. President joe biden wants to dramatically expand the role of the government in the us economy, and tonight hell present to congress his American Families plan. It will be a muted affair due to coronavirus, with only 200 people actually in the chamber. Aides to mr biden say hes rising to the challenge of this moment, when the pandemic has laid bare how families are struggling with child care and the lack of paid family leave. If passed by congress the proposal would represent the single biggest attempt since the 1960s to expand Government Support for Working Families in the United States. The American Families plan would cost taxpayers 1. 8 trilli