Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Unemployed Should ‘Find Something New,’ Urge Heirs to Fred Trump’s Fortune
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/find-something-new-trump-donald-ivanka-unemployment.html
The White House has started
a new campaign urging Americans who have bad jobs or no jobs to “Find
Something New.” Ivanka Trump, who has spearheaded this initiative,
explains, “There has never been a more critical time for Americans of
all ages and backgrounds to be aware of the multiple pathways to career
success and gain the vocational training and skills they need to fill
jobs in a changing economy.”
Statistically
speaking, in fact, you probably will not find something. The labor
market is suffering two simultaneous crises: a pandemic that directly
prevents a lot of economic activity from taking place and a broader
failure of demand rippling through the rest of the economy. The more
than 10 percent of working-age adults unable to find regular work are
jobless not because they lack the skills for the needed jobs but because
there is not enough demand for labor.
Ivanka Trump, White House Blasted For ‘Tone Deaf’ Campaign Telling The Unemployed To Find Jobs
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/07/14/ivanka-trump-white-house-blasted-for-tone-deaf-campaign-telling-the-unemployed-to-find-jobs/#63dc86935275
Multiple social media users pointed out that the “Find Something New”
campaign launched on the anniversary of Bastille Day, a turning point
in the French Revolution that led to the dissolution of the country’s
monarchy. Those same users also likened Ivanka Trump’s involvement with
the campaign to Marie Antoinette’s infamous “Let them eat cake”
remark—and the storming of the Bastille was a pivotal event that led to
her eventual beheading.
Poway Chabad Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein pleads guilty to tax fraud
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/poway-chabad-rabbi-yisroel-goldstein-pleads-guilty-to-tax-fraud-635092
The rabbi who lost a finger in a shooting attack on a Chabad synagogue
in Poway, California, in 2019 pleaded guilty to tax fraud.
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein pleaded guilty Tuesday in a scheme in which
donors contributed to his synagogue but then got most of the money
back, enabling the donor to claim a tax deduction. A charging document
detailing the scheme was unsealed in federal court in San Diego, the Los
Angeles Times reported.
The
scheme resulted in more than $6.2 million in fraudulent donations,
resulting in a $1.5 million loss to the federal government. Goldstein
could face up to five years in prison.
Understaffed and underpaid: Israeli nurses prepare to strike
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/understaffed-and-underpaid-israeli-nurses-prepare-to-strike-635084
Israeli nurses are
preparing to go on a nationwide strike amid a severe shortage of
medical workers and an explosion in the number of COVID-19 patients
after the country reopened and many people tossed aside their masks.
Israel is in the thick of its second wave of infections and is averaging more than 1,600 new cases daily this week.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students amid pressure from colleges
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-rule-foreign-students-online-classes
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it is withdrawing a proposed rule
that would have forced foreign students to return home if the college
courses they were enrolled in were to be held entirely online when
colleges reopen in the fall.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced last week
that those on F-1 and M-1 student visas would need to leave the U.S. or
transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely
online when they reopen in the fall. If they do not, they could face
deportation proceedings.
In a statement to students, Harvard President Larry Bacow said that
the policy “came down without notice -- its cruelty surpassed only by
its recklessness.”
“It appears that it was designed purposefully
to place pressure on colleges and universities to open their on-campus
classrooms for in-person instruction this fall, without regard to
concerns for the health and safety of students, instructors, and
others,” he said.
Fox News McEnany: Coronavirus has little effect on kids, they're not driving transmission cycle
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany discusses push to reopen schools with Harris Faulkner on 'Outnumbered Overtime.'
Israeli virus numbers
https://datadashboard.health.gov.il/COVID-19/?utm_source=go.gov.il&utm_medium=referral
this is the official page of the Israeli heath department
Israel peaks again: More than 1,600 new coronavirus patients in one day
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/israel-breaks-daily-record-again-with-1681-new-coronavirus-cases-634987
At the meeting, the National Security Council offered its
recommendations: Summer camps should return to a capsule system or close
entirely if they cannot manage to do so; synagogues, yeshivas, pools
and workout centers – even at hotels – should be shut down; restaurants
should revert to takeout only; and gatherings should be limited to 10
people.
The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse. We Must Act Now.
By John M. Barry
Mr. Barry is the author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.”
To understand just how bad things are in
the United States and, more important, what can be done about it
requires comparison. At this writing, Italy,
once the poster child of coronavirus devastation and with a population
twice that of Texas, has recently averaged about 200 new cases a day
when Texas
has had over 9,000. Germany, with a population four times that of
Florida, has had fewer than 400 new cases a day. On Sunday, Florida reported over 15,300, the highest single-day total of any state.
The
White House says the country has to learn to live with the virus.
That’s one thing if new cases occurred at the rates in Italy or Germany,
not to mention South Korea or Australia or Vietnam (which so far has
zero deaths). It’s another thing when the United States has the highest growth rate of new cases in the world, ahead even of Brazil.
To reopen schools in the safest way,
which may be impossible in some instances, and to get the economy fully
back on track, we must get the case counts down to manageable levels —
down to the levels of European countries. The Trump administration’s
threat to withhold federal funds from schools that don’t reopen won’t
accomplish that goal. To do that, only decisive action will work in
places experiencing explosive growth — at the very least, limits even on
private gatherings and selective shutdowns that must include not just
such obvious places as bars but churches, also a well-documented source of large-scale spread.
Existing drug may downgrade COVID threat to common cold level — Jerusalem study
https://www.timesofisrael.com/existing-drug-may-downgrade-covid-threat-to-common-cold-level-jerusalem-study/
An existing medicine can “downgrade” the danger-level of coronavirus
to that of a common cold, a Jerusalem researcher is claiming, after
testing it on infected human tissue.
Prof. Yaakov Nahmias says that his research shows that the novel
coronavirus is so vicious because it causes lipids to be deposited in
the lungs, and that there is a solution to undo the damage: a
widely-used anti cholesterol drug called fenofibrate.
America shuts down again -- choosing reality over Trump's false claims
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/donald-trump-states-economy-coronavirus/index.html
While President Donald Trump obsesses about his reelection hopes in his White House bubble, state and local leaders are frantically reversing state reopenings that he demanded, which turned America into the world's biggest coronavirus hotspot.
As
emergency rooms filled and the virus quickened its relentless march
across southern and Western states, Trump stuck to the fiction that the
worst is already over: "We had to close it down; now we're opening it
up," the President said of the economy at the White House, patting
himself on the back for saving "millions of lives."
As
new cases of the disease reach 60,000 a day nationwide, many leaders,
including those who supported Trump's aggressive approach, now have
little choice but to prioritize science over politics, leaving the
President looking out of touch with reality.
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