You can finish watching this program if you had to cspan. Org. Federal and local officials take part in a discussion. The event is being hosted by Americas Center on education and labor. Hello, everyone. Hello and welcome to the new america. We are happy to have you here. This is our first in person public event since march 2020, and yet grateful to be able to share this space with you. Thank you for coming and welcome to all of our guests online. We are looking forward to engaging with you in our question and answer. We are here to talk about jobs and how cities can leverage investments in infrastructure to create more good jobs and to make sure that people from all backgrounds can get into good jobs. My name is mary alice. I will be your conductor today. At the center, we we focused our research on the intersection of education and Workforce Development policies that prepare people and help them access those jobs and the labor and employment policies to make sure they are good jobs.
With the clock ticking toward a po oh tential u. S. Government shut down on tuesday, the senate voted today oh to move forward on a bill to keep the government running. The vote came shortly after texas senator ended a 21 hour throng speech criticizing the president S Health Care law. Mike has the story from capitol hill. Reporter well, whatever you call it, it was one very throng speech. Many are asking just one what did senator ted cruz accomplish . I like it being a bipartisan way. Reporter after talking in to lunchtime his this crucial time was up. The only time we will pass obama care, i would ask my friends in the democratic aisle pursue want to the order. Reporter the 21 hours the 5th longest speech in senate history. He raeuld against the new Health Care Law. Are we going to stand together and say lets break the broken pattern of washington. Reporter for some it got silly. I do not like sam i am, i do not like green eggs and ham. Now, shes losing that. Reporter potential candid
We have a calibration for the infection rate, and any state that goes over that infection rate, that state will be subject to the quarantine. Its only for the simple reason that we worked very hard to get the viral transmission rate down. We dont want to see it go up, because a lot of people come in to this region, and they could literally bring the infection with them. So how is all of this going to work . Cnns Alexander Field is in new york to tell us. How would they implement this . Reporter hey there, brianna. Were marrying from the governors this is a travel advisory, it will be the personal responsibility of people who chooses to come to new york, connecticut or new jersey to take this seriously and to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the state. The governor of new york is saying that people who choose to violate that quarantine and are found out would then face judicial orders, could face fines in the thousands of dollars and a mandatory quaranti quarantine. These are the
It is jobs friday, the bulls are betting that this mornings employment report will add fuel to the markets report run. But theres always that risk that the numbers could rerail the rally. We want to talk about this. Plus, cash back. U. S. Companies are showing investors are love with the windfall of dividendes and Share Buybacks. Plus, stress tests. The major banks get a passing grade. I think 18 out of 19 from the Federal Reserve. Still, critics say questions about the health of the Financial System remain. Its friday, march 8th, 2013 and squawk box begins right now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box here on cnbc. Im barack obama along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Happy jobs friday, everybody. Double whamny today, not only is it friday, its also a jobs friday. The full forecast says 160,000 jobs were added last month. I cant believe the which is fer numbers arent higher than that. Ive looked at a lot of numbers that say its above 200,000. The Unemployment Rate
Order to limit or ban such companies from getting federal contracts . And how soon would you like to see treasury act given congresss schedule . Just to review why were concerned here. You have accountants going to some big corporations that are clearly u. S. Based and have the bulk of their operations in the United States and these accountants are say iing we fou a great loophole. If you flip your citizenship to another country, even though its just a paper transaction, we think we can get you out of paying a whole bunch of taxes. Well, its not fair. Its not right. The lost revenue to treasury means it has to be made up somewhere, and that typically is going to be a bunch of hard working americans who either pay through higher taxes themselves or through reduced services. And in the meantime, the company is still using all the services and all the benefits effectively being a u. S. Corporation. They just decided that they would go through this paper exercise. So theres legislation wor