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December 9, 2020 ALEXANDRIA, Va. — December 9, 2020 — United Way Worldwide is partnering with the Business Roundtable and the CDC Foundation to launch America’s Mask Challenge, an effort to underwrite and deliver 200 million washable face masks to every student, teacher and staff member in America’s most under-resourced schools. The goal of the challenge is to get cloth masks to 40 million students, teachers and staff members at schools receiving federal Title I funding. That tran...

7,000 workers will be without a job in the coming months, breaking that news in a staff-wide email. hackett previously called 2018 a, quote, challenging year for the company while taking home $18 million for himself. the cuts are all for white-collar employees and similar to rival general motors cuts which we saw back in november. 15% of salaried and contract workers lost their jobs in that case. and in the world lead, prince charles has agreed to tea with president trump during the presidents...

Its never an easy thing to do and in the email today, ceo jim hackett said this. saying goodbye to colleagues is difficult and emotional. we also have a huge range of resources and services in place to support employees and matching this transition. they are trying to be sensitive to it. profit margins at fort have been struggling in terms of the competition and part of that is due to the tariffs. they import steel and aluminum. so taking those away from the canada and mexico products helped the...

And cover es the auto industry. can you talk about the context of this? what is behind these cuts? >> this is about the ceo jim hackett has he has been doing saying the company needs to be leaner and more efficient and that will drive greater profitability. of the job cuts announced, the 7,000. most telegraphed to wall street over the last several months and this will happen in waves by the end of august. most of the 7,000 jobs eliminated will be overseas. will be some jobs being cut in dearborn...

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Week that we had on wall street so the dow was up on monday and wednesday, and it then dropped 660 points on thursday that was the second trading day of 2019 only to swing back up 746 points on friday. are you dizzy yet? investors watching the ongoing tensions with china, now bleeding on to corporate balance sheets, apple big story gets a fifth of its revenue from china, ceo tim cook sending a bombshell warning to investors saying we did not foresee the magnitude of the economic deceleration par...

Ethanol, or e-15 as you might know it. currently, e-15 is banned in summer months over concerns it contributes directly to smog. the increase of ethanol is seen as a win for farm states that have been fighting for greater sales of the corn-based fuel. the ford motor company is planning to make cuts that could result in thousands of workers losing their jobs. as part of its $25.5 billion reorganization, ford could cut up to 24,000 white-collar jobs across the world. according to a report from m...

Face next. president trump now gets to fill another important judgeship. his former seat on the d.c. court of appeals. it is considered the second most powerful court in the united states after only the supreme court. around country, there are now 14 total judge seats open on courts of appeals which president trump has an opportunity to fill. you know filling judgeships across the board from the supreme court down, this has been a huge win for president trump with his conservative base. keep an ...

Florida and texas. they are looking to maintain that momentum after whats been six pretty tough years. >> while we are on the topic of the u.s. auto industry, fords new ceo laid out an ambitious plan to investors. what can you tell us about that? >> jim hackett has been in the job there since may. he is now focused on cost cutting. he looks to slash about $14 billion over the next five years. he is hoping to sell more trucks as well as electric and hybrid cars. he has pointed out things like par...

Company, being replace plad witm hackett. earlier, i had a chance to speak with bill ford, hes the great-grandson of henry ford, chairman of the board, about what happened and what it means for fords future. >> on friday the board met and then after that, i went to see mark and we had a long talk and he elected to retire and so were going forward with jim hackett as our new ceo which im very, very happy with. and he will provide us really transformational leadership at a time of great change for...