Down to 321,000 down from 1 million. 321,000 job losses is still eight times the number we were averaging in the first two months. However it could skyrocket again if washington does not replenish state and local governments to pay public employees. Thats this sector now thats beginning to be hit. Second, temporary layoffs may be back to work sooner. We site the university of chicago jobs study that just came out. Up to 42 . 42 of the job losses are not coming back. Stocks have balance back. Thou up 750 points this week. Anytime you have investor and Consumer Confidence indicators going up, that helps in terms of job reconstruction. Spending is starting to recover. The question is, is a Consumer Spending going to be increasing enough . Versus asia do not see a resurgence of covid cases yet. It suggests that can be control. Merely opening up a few retailers for curbside business wont help much. That will have small the very minor impact. He said the federal paycheck Protection Plan whic
Or on the line every day. Last week, we talked about how important testing is to our desire to reopen the economy while taking every appropriate measure to protect the lives and health of customers, staff, business owners, visitors and residents in every corner of our state. Today, we are very pleased to announce a partnership with idx it employs 3000 people in our state, and worldwide leader in the production of diagnostics is partnering with us to provide covid19 test material sufficient to more than triple our current Testing Capacity. While this a deal was and that works, we boarded for the fda and washington to give final emergency use approval to idexx new approval. That approval arrived this morning. This changes everything. For weeks, my administration has been in discussions with idexx to make sure people of wade would be the beneficiary of their new test kits should fda approve them. And now we have that approval. As a result of this partnership, the state of maine will have
Coronavirus testing to every resident. Regardless of symptoms. Good evening i am ken stevens. And elizabeth cook. Healthcare workers will have priority in the tests will require unemployment. The mayor saying it is critical to learning who has the virus and using stayathome rules. Kpix 5 first exposed that coronavirus Testing Facilities in San Francisco are being underutilized at a time when widespread testing is essential. The city has the capacity to test as many as 5800 people per day. So far it is only testing about 500. The city has recently expanded the symptoms that qualify for testing to include things like headache or fatigue. But its not clear how many people are aware of that. It took me forever to find out the link that would give you access to the test. And yeah, from other people that did the test before. But i could not find this link. It has only been within the last week that we have increased or expanded the symptoms that will qualify someone for testing. So you will
Announced a new partnership with a local laboratory 11 the state to test more people for covid19. Her state or conference with state Public Health officials is about an hour. Gov. Mills good morning, good afternoon. We have good news for you today. 67 days, our Coronavirus Task force has worked day and night to provide the resources to make every man, woman, and child in maine safe. Has talkeddr. Shah about the critical need for testing of the virus in any number of settings, particularly when it comes to protecting our most Vulnerable People and our frontline workers whose lives are on the line every day. Who lives or on the line every day. Last week, we talked about how important testing is to our desire to reopen the economy while taking every appropriate measure to protect the lives and health of customers, staff, business owners, visitors and residents in every corner of our state. Today, we are very pleased to announce a partnership with idx it employs 3000 people in our state, a
Basis points. Lets get to our guest now. We have a very fascinating guest right now. Ed hyman, Institutional Investor economist of the year for decades. The surveys he carries out are unparalleled in the industry. We are going to talk about Central Banks, the ecb, and the fed meeting this week, and the bank of japan coming out with some decisions today. Chairman of evercore isi, is with us now. Small and mediumsized enterprises, and companies that do business is with china. Obviously, the data is falling off a cliff right now, but in your estimation, what will the severity of this recession be in comparison to, say, 2008 . Ed much worse. But this is a very interesting time for me. Ive probably been the most bearish person on the street with our gdp numbers down 50 , and like you say, things have been kind of freefall, Company Surveys included. I just wanted to share with you that for the past two weeks, our surveys have increased a little retailers and restaurants. The checks that were