Page 6 - 175 Billion News Today

>> neil: on top of the $5 trillion thats been spend. that money adds up, right? >> the $3 trillion was under donald trump. most of that money -- look at the $175 billion compared to the $5 trillion. that will not -- that will push inflation. that money is going to help with lowering child care costs, going to help with giving people lost cost of taking care of the elderly. i think theyre long-term investments that will help the working and middle class and long overdue. you pay less if youre in ...

Decade, we had losses of about $175 billion. this is from the world meteorological organization, as a result of extreme weather. fast forward to 2010, 2019 and weve seen more extreme weather since then, and it was approximately $1.83 trillion. $1.8 trillion. so were seeing far more damage, part of that is bigger population, greater density, higher assets. but we are also just being struck more by bad events. in fact, we now see four to five times more extreme events than we did in the 1970s. >> ...

Can finish negotiations. this is a complex bill that involves several committees, lot of very tough issues because weve got to resolve them between us first. again, were meeting today. 11 democrats, 11 republicans are working on this. were moving as fast as we can. dana, think about it. when we came together with the general framework agreement, it was decided that we would then get into the details. we have had one week of legislative session since then for a bill that, as you indicated earlier...

Can live with a shred of dignity. thats not a lot of money. now, i went to walmart in bettenville, arkansas, to make this point. that the family that owns walmart is the walton family. as you may know, dana, the walton family is the wealthiest family in america. they are worth $175 billion. $175 billion. they should be able to pay their workers a living wage, at least $11 an hour. and now you have the absurd situation that because they have a starting minimum wage in walmart of $11 an hour, you ...

Dignity. i went to walmart to make this point, that the family that owns walmart is the walton family. as you may know, the walton family is the wealthiest family in america. they are worth $175 billion, $175 billion. they should be able to pay their workers a living wage, at least $11 an hour. now you have the absurd situation that because they have a starting minimum wage in walmart of $11 an hour, thousands of walmart employees who are forced to go on medicaid, food stamps and public housing....

Helps or hurts all that much. the bottom line here is we have worked very hard with amazon workers to raise the minimum wage there to $15 an hour. with disney workers to raise their minimum wage to $15 an hour. and in the case of walmart, you have a company owned by the wealthiest family in this country, the walton family, worth $175 billion. their ceo got $24 million in compensation last year. yes, they can afford to pay their workers $15 an hour. and that is what we need to do nationally. the ...

Applebees new loaded fajitas. now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. >> shannon: senator bernie sanders taking his socialism to the home of one of americas >> bernie sanders taking his socialism to the home of one of americas great capitalist success stories facing off against the walmart ceo the 2020 candidate talking about minimum wage increases. >> one might think that a family worth $175 billion would be able to pay its employees a living wage. you cant pay rent, you cant get healthcare, ...

Otezla. show more of you. >> shannon: senator bernie sanders taking his socialism to the home of one of americas great capitalists success stories. facing off against the wal-mart ceo. investigate him to stump for minimum wage increases. >> one might think that a family worth 175-billion dollars would be able to pay its employees a living wage. you cant way rent. you cant get healthcare. you cant feed your kids or put gas in the car on $11 an hour. >> we moved up our starting wages in the united...

Was there to support a shareholder proposal that would have asked the board to consider walmart associates, the hourly employees, for a seat on the board. i just received the results of the vote. it got less than .01% of the vote. hopefully im sure senator sanders hopes he does better than when he runs for president than .01% of the vote. he made a fairly articulate kate to the meeting and to his supporters outside the meeting. take a listen. >> one might think that a family worth $175 billion w...

Good evening, jeff. >> starting pay at walmart, $11 an hour. bernie sanders says thats not fair. so he came here to the shareholders meeting in rogers, arkansas to argue for a shareholder proposal that would urge the company to put associates, hourly workers on the walmart board and to raise their wages to $15 an hour. >> one might think that a family worth $175 billion would be able to pay its employees a living wage. you cant pay represent. you cant get healthcare. you cant feed your kids. put...