One thing that caught my attention was how he talked about the economy kind of finally working for people at the bottom of the income ladder you know that the strongest wage gains have been for lower paid workers you know he knowledge there are still gaps for people of color people in rural communities but say are there more signs that the wealth is perhaps being shared more broadly here I mean there s a really good evidence that essentially hot economies are very good and disproportionately good for folks who are really on the margins of the labor market so the unemployment rate will pull fastest. African-Americans. In the kind of the hottest point of the recovery and so so that is that is really positive I think one of the other things that that Jay Powell said at the testimony was that you know that fiscal policy should you know had more to do that there were lots of reasons why people want in the labor force that really monetary policy couldn t actually help with and and my respon
E 3 dot Ai addressing the world s most challenging problems at the convergence of artificial intelligence and the last to cloud computing learn more and see 3. From Washington d.c. I mean he s got in for Kyra it s Friday November 15th good to have you with us while the Us political system is in turmoil there were plenty of reminders this week that the u.s. Economy is holding pretty steady thanks once again to the American consumer we ve got to May a Keynes with the economists with me here in Washington and Lynnette Lopez with Business Insider at our New York studio to discuss this and more how you 2 and a. Great let s start with the hearings here in Washington not the ones everyone s talking about Fed chair j. Paul testified in the House and Senate on the outlook for the American economy what did you take away from those sessions I think the thing I took away was basically the same message that we got from off to the last Fed meeting right and essentially it is that the ball for anoth
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His convictions for child sex abuse George Pal He s 78 was jailed for 6 years in March for abusing 2 boys in Melbourne in the 1990 s. He s always denied any wrongdoing concerns have been raised by the n.h.s. Scheme which I used to help people with mental health issues in England more than 20 Serapis sov told 5 life patients were coached into entering inflated wellbeing measurements to try to increase success rates and h.s. England says any falsification is unacceptable yet h.s. Is expected to be the focus of election campaigning later Labor will announce a package of health policies including bringing back bursaries for student nurses in England to help with the cost of studying the party says it ll spend the conservatives on health. A draft copy of the review applied a hitch to says it should be built despite the huge costs the report was commissioned by Boris Johnson in August and won t be published until after the election Michael being worked on costing for Network Rail he says it
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