Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lets turn our attention to one of the important issues, and it is this. 20 Million Students and their families are in the middle of what has to be the strangest first semester of college in at least a century. Almost everything has changed for students except one thing, students still have to answer 108 questions on the dreaded fafsa form, federal aid application for pell grants and Student Loans to help go to college. For years now ive carried around the fafsa as a prop to make the case for simplifying it, but its no joke, especially this year. Many students are questioning their investment in a College Education at a time when many classes are only offering online courses, many of low income students who would benefit most economically from college long term are putting it off altogether. There was an 8 drop in the number of black undergraduate students enrolled in summer sessions compared with last summers enrollment according t
Oil, 41. 40 we talked for a long time about mike pences hawkish speech on china from a year or two ago but pompeo yesterday oneupped that and this consulate news from china is weighing on sentiment too. Yeah, he upped the ante jim did focus us at the time on Vice President pences speech because it was quite truck lant would be a word to describe it at the time but it continues to go up in terms of the tensions, carl weve talked about it pretty much every day, whether its a backandforth over huawei, whether it has to do with conversations about closing down the app tiktok in the United States, whether it is the closing of consulates here and the response from the chinese. This is not going in a direction that many, who at least are invested in the idea of global trade, certainly, mike, would wanting to see. For sure. On the one hand the market is not necessarily overly focused to this point on these relationships and not really counting on anything to come out of it. Its not quite like
Was nasdaq and s p 500 down almost 3 . Add boycott slit sit Major Companies pulling out of advertising dollars from social media giant is costing Company Millions anding to surngd pressure and down two and a a quarter percent right now. Boeing takes flight test of the 737 max begin this is week. The stock is up on the news this morning premarket up close to 3 and Federal Reserve Shopping List essential bank releasing name of companies that it is purchasing Corporate Bonds from. Including automakers, telecommunication companies, even beverage cocacola, plus china take more steps to plan down on hong kong frms and beijing says it will impose visa restriction on americans with what they call egregious conducts on Hong Kong Related issues. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets look like this european indices highser with the up a third of the percent and paris up about 16 points also a third of the and dax is higher than 34 points twothirds of one percent. In asia across th
Supervisor walton present. Clerk commissioner yee . Ie absent. We have quorum. Chair peskin because we are a subdivision of the state of california, the next item, which madam clerk will read, is noticed pursuant to state law and the governors executive order. Madam clerk, can you please read item number two. Clerk acknowledge and adopt meet notice and meeting conduct requirements pursuant to the governors executive order n2920. This is an action item. Chair peskin okay. Councillor, anything that you would like to add on this item . Thank you, chair peskin. Im tmy name is jill javy, council for the Transportation Authority. On march 18th, 2020, the government issued executive order n2920, authorizing policy bodies, such as the Transportation Authority, to meet by teleconference without having a physical Meeting Place for members of the public. Provided that the public may observe or listen and offer a Public Comment in the telephoneically or from other means. The orders requiring peopl
As seen on the screen. Then follow the system prompts. Youll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. When you wish to speak on an item, dial 10 to be added to the queue to speak. Each caller will be allowed two minutes to speak. When your two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Calls will be taken in the order of which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly, and turn the down your television. Please allow for audio visual delays and 30second lag time during the course of the meeting. Item 1. Chair peskin go ahead and call the roll. Clerk commissioner. Supervisorfewer . Supervisor fewer present. Clerk commissioner haney . Hay supervisor haney present. Reporter commissioner mandelman . Man absent. Commissioner mar . Mar absent. Commissioner peskin. Chair peskin present. Reporter commissioner preston . Supervisor preston present. Reporter commissioner ronen . Supervisor ronen present. Reporter commissioner safai . Supervisor safai present