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And in portland, the teachers union has proposed shifting to one at-home instruction day per week for high school students and one shorter school day for elementary and middle school students, all this despite congress doling out a whopping $189 billion in its three covid relief bills to shore up k-12 education. were back with kim■ç strassel, bill mcgurn and jill january mel key your -- gillian mel key your. our money has gone to the public schools in the past three covid bills, wheres that m...

Us develop societies that are sustainable and resilient and green, and one of the key parts of that is shifting away from our fossil fuel funding onto clean energy. now, our countries have been talking a brilliant rhetoric about green recovery and building back better, but a recent report from tearfund showed that over the course of the pandemic the 67 nations have pumped $189 billion into fossil fuels, as opposed to 147 billion into green energy. so we have the rhetoric and then we have the rea...

To see the other g7 nations following that lead and also ending their support to overseas fossil fuels projects. but then, domestically, we need to be working towards a green recovery that helps us develop societies that are sustainable and resilient and green, and one of the key parts of that is shifting away from our fossil fuel funding onto clean energy. now, our countries have been talking a brilliant rhetoric about green recovery and building back better, but a recent report from tearfund s...

♪ griff: welcome back. the left lashing out at a lone g.o.p. congressman for blocking a $189 billion disaster relief package. but what theyre not mentioning is that the bill isnt addressing the disaster at the border. here to defend his move is that congressman chip roy of texas. congressman, thanks for joining us. before everyone headed off to the weekend you drew a lot of attention when you voted against the bill. why did you do it? >> good morning, griff. thanks for having me on. and i real...

Stock. in the first company of this year, companies on the s&p 500 spent $189 billion on repurchasing their own stock. you cite a study which said if companies give raises instead of buying stock buybacks, this is the kind of stuff you would key. thats not what were seeing. >> absolutely. the trend of companies using their profits, using just money they had in pocket, or even taking on debt to buy back their shares, it really precedes the tax cuts. this has been going on and becoming a bigger an...

>> were already at something like 189 billion for the first three months of the year. all weve seen are one-time bonus, no real wage increases. so its been a great positive for the market. but in your piece in "vanity fair," which you write, it has been a fun ride. wall street braces for trumps economic colonic. why is there going to be a colonic? all of this is great for the market. its terrible for the american worker. >> there are many reasons as i talked about in that piece. >> many reasons ...

California and undisclosed across the united states. stock repurchases for the s&p 500 hit an all-time high of $189 billion in the first three months of 2018. so far, the tax windfall is barely trickling down to americas workers who are barely hearing about wages, long-term wages, look at slow wage growth shareholders.ng the pockets of were going to focus o that in the next few months. moments ago, former fbi agent peter strzok walked into the house judiciary committee and hes about to discuss...

$189 billion in the first three months of 2018. so far trump tax cuts for companies is barely trickling down to the american worker. instead, it is lining the pockets of shareholders. ali, you lots of employees own stock. not people in the middle and bottom. and -- >> most of people are passive investors. half of americans, those 100% of whom work for a living, dont. >> and giving that one-time bonus is a kiss you get once. the reason -- >> it doesnt raise your base pay. you dont have to get tha...

According to a new york university study, trade between china and africa has risen from 10 billion in 2000 to $166 billion in 2011. a 16-fold increase. china is now africas largest trade partner. as i reported last week, chinas total aid budget has surged as well from $1.7 billion in 2001 to more than $189 billion in 2011. a substantial chunk of that aid goes to africa. in the short-term, africas leaders may rejoice at having struck a good deal. they no longer need to listen to western criticism...

Afraid to stand up for what he believes even if hes one of a hundred. i like that. but when you pick a fight even if youre one out of a hundred, you better have the ability to say this is a win. if it was delay obama care, that was a win. if it was to get the budget numbers back to $189 billion, thats a win. but when he was in the senate conference, a couple day laters a senator stood up and said how do we get out of this mess? how do we get out of here? he didnt have an answer. >> so not only d...