Discusses the 2020 campaign. We take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Its the washington journal. President trump is in arizona and joe biden is in ohio. Senator harris returns to the campaign trail in floor. Early voting begins in that state. Vice president pence is in pennsylvania. He will also go to maine. Devoted to youis telling us about your top issues heading into election day. What is it . Perhaps its the pandemic. Maybe there are other topics. This is how you can let us know. If you support joe biden. 202 7488001 if you support President Trump. If you are undecided, 202 7488002. You can text us. You can post on our facebook. The Gallup Organization pulled republican men and women what their top issues were. Gauging that and response, when it comes to matters of the economy, 48 of republican men and 49 of republican women say the economy versus 38 of democratic men. When it comes to the coronavi
Statistics. The United States now leads the world in the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus with more than 1. 5 million. Another 2. 4 million workers filed jobless claims this week, joining the more than 38 million americans have applied for unemployment assistance since the crisis began. Veryl soon our country will reah another grim milestone. We are fast approaching the day when more than 100,000 american lives will have been lost to covid19, the size of a small city erased from the map. Speaker pelosi and i have sent a letter to President Trump this morning requesting that the American Flag be flown at half mast on all public buildings on the day the total reaches 100,000. As families all across the great country mourned the loss of friend, colleagues and loved ones, flying the flag at half mast would be a national expression of grief. And of course this weekend is also memorial day, where we commemorate so Many Americans who through the centuries have lost their lives for
Neighborhood. We fund and work with dozens of communitybased organizations in the neighborhood, so through our Community Benefit investment we do go outside of the walls of the hospital to try to make sure that we are meeting the needs of the community in the neighborhood. In terms of the services on campus the data, which im happy to send you in a larger format shows you that we try to recruit a workforce that is reflective of our patient population. That is really the number one thing from a healthcare perspective that helps with cultural linguistic access to services. In addition, in the packet you will see we did an assessment of all of the cultural and linguistic access standards and in the packet theres a detailed document that outlines what the consultant found recommendations, and how we are working to address them. Theres a lot of Different Things that go into that, but it is in the Compliance Report that we submitted in may of this year thank you. Any other comments or questi
2019 items 3a and b for case numbers 2015010589 and ofa2300 harrison street, large project authorization and Office Development authorization are proposed for continuance to november 14. I have no other items for continuance and i have no speaker cards. Do any members of the public have any comment about the ims proposed for continuance items proposed for continuance . Public comment is closed. I move to continue the items to the dates specified. Thank you commissioners on that motion to continue items as proposed. Commissioner [roll call vote] the motion passes unanimously. Placing under the consent cal calendar. 1046, 14th street a condominium subdivision. Do any members of the public wish to provide Public Comment on this item . Okay. Public comment is closed. Commissioner koppel. Move. Second. Thank you commissioners on that motion to approve item 4 on the consent calendar. [roll call vote] so moved. The motion passes unanimously. Commission matters consideration of adoption of min
Government. Washington journal continues. Host each week in the segment of the washington journal, we take a look at how your money is at work in a different federal program. We are taking a look at the 9 11 Victim Compensation fund. We are talking with Michael Mcauliffe with the new york daily news. How long after 9 11 was it established . What is the criteria to qualify . Guest there was a fund that started right after 9 11 and lasted for a couple of years. That lapsed. It did not take into account people getting sick after 9 11. , 2010, it wasars the last thing that passed congress. That renewed the Victim Compensation fund for a couple of billion dollars. That expired in 2015. They had to come back and do it all over again. A lot of folks saw jon stewart coming down then. It sort of made a popular impression on the country. They ultimately passed it near the end of the year. It seems to linger each time it happens. 7. 4bumped it up to billion. The way the Congressional Budget Offic