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COVID-19 has changed the healthcare workforce, but automation could be the future.

Just to give you, you know, an example, yes, you want to give your top employees good compensation and their executives so they have the ability to innovate, to make hard decisions, to take risks. but if you put all the gains from productivity on the top of the ladder, then the workers have no incentive to work hard and be loyal and be engaged in their work. that is where we are, for example, in the united states where a lot of employees arent engaged. so were having a productivity problem in th...

Production trade. economics, i thought economics for 20 years, sometimes we look at it -- theres other reasons, productivity in this country has been going down, down for a lot of reasons other than trade, china is cheating, we need to fight back at unfair trading and practices and president trump is coming through on a promise that the american people will understand. the elites always benefit from trade but the middle class, their wages have been flat for 30 years and bernie and the democrats ...

>> i think there are four things probably every company of any size can do. basically no matter what your fallacy is, if somebody is sick or taking care of their mother they have to deal with that and unfortunately the health care system pretty much works from 9:00 to 5:00 monday through friday, exactly when you want to be at work. so things you can do that prevent what they call absenteeism, which is like a $790 billion productivity problem in the united states, or another aspect is presenteeis...

Things, probably, at every company of any size can do. basically, no matter what your policy is, somebody is sick or they are taking care of their mother, they have to deal with that, right? unfortunately, the health care system pretty much works 9:00 to 5:00 monday to friday, exactly when you want to be at work. so things to prevent absenteeism, which is like a $790 billion productivity problem in the united states, or another aspect is presenteeism when people come to work but are not at their...

Out this week that couldnt be more different from each other. vice president biden launching a summer of stimulus spending and the republican senator jim demint pushing a permanent tax cut on some investment. jonathan, who has the right plan for jobs? >> cutting taxes creates wealth. true, you tax something and you get less of it. government plan, washingtons plan to spend more money to take money from people who earn it and redistribute it to those who dont unincentivize the need, it doesnt inc...