economic policy institute and in washington d.c. jeff hauser executive director at the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research welcome to you all jeff let me start with you many of the restrictions have been put in place in the u.s. . now you have this 4.8 percent contraction that's happened and the restrictions were put in place before this is only really hinting at how bad things will get. absolutely the 2nd quarter the economy might be the worst in american history the intentional. reduction in economic activity is unprecedented it's necessary if anything it's actually insufficient in terms of how much america is complying with you not stay at orders but if that 2nd quarter the economic statistics are going to have a bloodbath and the realities can be even worse robert when will the bulk of the pandemics economic impact be felt most i think we're going to see it in the 2nd quarter certainly but and we we could see unemployment surge to levels again perhaps at honest and press and we were the numbers out this morning suggests that we hadn't dish will 3800000 workers file for unemployment official numbers ar

who predicted the $28.00 crash was economist dean baker he's the co-founder of the center for economic and policy research and he joins me now via skype from utah in the usa thanks so much jeanne for coming on millions with coronavirus hundreds of thousands killed do you see some policymakers actually using cove it to pour money into financial services there's been 645.

someone who predicted the 28 crash was economist dean baker he's the co-founder of the center for economic and policy research and he joins me now via skype from utah in the usa thanks so much dean for coming on millions with coronavirus hundreds of thousands killed do you see some policymakers actually using covert had to pour money into financial services there's been 645000000000 of q.e. just here for the city of london certainly that is the case and i just try to be a little fair to them in the sense that i think it does make sense for them to.

who predicted the $28.00 crash was economist dean baker he's the co-founder of the center for economic and policy research and he joins me now via skype from utah in the usa thanks so much dean for coming on millions with coronavirus hundreds of thousands killed do you see some policymakers actually using cove it to pour money into financial services there's been 645000000000 of q.e. just here for the city of london certainly that is the case and i just try to be a little fair to them in the sense that i think it does make sense for truth to try to maintain stability in the financial markets so that money is being way that's being given so they're doing a lot of things that i think are my. more pernicious for example the united states they passed a tax cut the $170000000000.00 over the next decade $17000000000.00 a year to the real estate industry that literally has nothing to do at least nothing that i or anyone else could think of has nothing to do with the pandemic so this all goes to the very wealthiest people in the country 17000000000 a year for things have nothing to with the pandemic is it a bit l

the center for economics and policy research says that nearly 6900 plant workers have tested positiveovid-19. joining us now is chef and restaurateur andrew zimmern, the host of what's eating america. andrew, good evening. good to see you. >> likewise, good to see you, too. >> what is your sense of the administration's food box program, to send food to nonprofits like food banks and faith-based organizations? seems like a good idea, especially since a lot of this food would just kind of get throne away or produce would just get basically mulched otherwise. >> yes, you are correct. and i think like a lot of other government programs, the devil is in the details and we'll wait and see how it rolls out. many of us who have been living and breathing these issues for decades were actually calling for this in march. we could see what was going to happen on our farms, in our meat plants, on our fishing boats in our crab picking houses, anywhere food is produced. those of us in the food space, you know, knew this was going to come down to a people issue, especially a people getting sick issue

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been engineered as a deliberate act of policy to tackle a health crisis vicki price is the chief economic advisor of the center for economic and business research she's also a former head of the economic service and the united kingdom who better to assess the prospects for economic recovery think the price now joins me from london. vicky pryce one of the 1st quarter economic figures tell us about the impact of the. world economy basically we are seeing a contraction of spread across the world and be one of the interesting issues is 1st of all how much. you do contractionary and his activity to shop because we're beginning to feel someone who knows outcomes just now in the western world anyway the question then who say this was. not an impact that would have been whether the recovery that we're all hoping will happen at some point his class as the international monetary fund house or whether we're going to have what it was chucked it period during which he tried to get out of this recession which is the largest they've seen released since the great crash in the early part of the 20th century and whether they're for that is going to leave scars f