karen hill is also with me. we can both answer questions or provide more information, if needed. >> thank you for that response. i am wondering about the one year that we keep seeing. although it was not in the report, along the way we learned there could be up to 65 touch points for an application before it gets -- before the person is hired. people are lost because they can't wait for a year to be employed. maybe you can respond to that. >> thank you. thanks very much. i would definitely invite karen if karen is on to talk a little bit about that. there are many opportunities in our system to streamline the hiring process. unfortunately a lot of those conversations happen outside of behavioral health. they are things required in the dhr policy and civil service rules that have been in place for 100 years. there is opportunity to improve. i definitely agree that is not acceptable. we need to hire faster, but that conversation how we improve the hiring process really belongs at the city level. karen, i don't kno

karen hill is also with me. we can both answer questions or provide more information, if needed. >> thank you for that response. i am wondering about the one year that we keep seeing. although it was not in the report, along the way we learned there could be up to 65 touch points for an application before it gets -- before the person is hired. people are lost because they can't wait for a year to be employed. maybe you can respond to that. >> thank you. thanks very much. i would definitely invite karen if karen is on to talk a little bit about that. there are many opportunities in our system to streamline the hiring process. unfortunately a lot of those conversations happen outside of behavioral health. they are things required in the dhr policy and civil service rules that have been in place for 100 years. there is opportunity to improve. i definitely agree that is not acceptable. we need to hire faster, but that conversation how we improve the hiring process really belongs at the city level. karen, i don't kno

karen hill is also with me. we can both answer questions or provide more information, if needed. >> thank you for that response. i am wondering about the one year that we keep seeing. although it was not in the report, along the way we learned there could be up to 65 touch points for an application before it gets -- before the person is hired. people are lost because they can't wait for a year to be employed. maybe you can respond to that. >> thank you. thanks very much. i would definitely invite karen if karen is on to talk a little bit about that. there are many opportunities in our system to streamline the hiring process. unfortunately a lot of those conversations happen outside of behavioral health. they are things required in the dhr policy and civil service rules that have been in place for 100 years. there is opportunity to improve. i definitely agree that is not acceptable. we need to hire faster, but that conversation how we improve the hiring process really belongs at the city level. karen, i don't kno

but we have the chief nursing officer and our nursing director and then karen hill who is the director of staffing from d.p.h. human resources. so, hopefully that covers any questions you might have. but otherwise we're obviously in complete agreement with the b.l.a. report which is recommend approval. >> let's hear from the b.l.a. item number three approved the second amendment to an existing agreement between d.p.h. and cross country staffing for temporary nursing services. the announcement increases the agreement amount by $31. million from the current amount of $9.8 million from a total amount of $41.2 million and extends the agreement terms through june of 2024. we sum prize expend chures in the table on page nine of our report. as we note in the report, the current agreement is $9.8 million through the term of 1.3 million. this has been accounted for as part of a contingency in the proposed second amendment. if this level is noted, we recommend approval of this contract. >> thank you very much. any colleagues, comments or questions? i think that supervisor safayieh, have you join

when it comes to states, an op-ed in the hill recently appearing. this is from karen still got, who serves as the head of the massachusetts state senate. they wrote an op-ed talking about states needing stimulus. saying, when it comes to to draw fromwe had our savings while disappointing many who called on us to do more. we made it tough calls and did our jobs. when is congress going to do theirs? in a short number of weeks, we went from an estimated $1 billion surplus in fiscal 2021 to a shortfall estimated by some to be close to $600 billion. that gives you that state perspective coming from massachusetts. if you want to read it at the hill website. john in ohio, you are next, republican line. youer: first of all, thank for taking my call. i am a republican. i am a business owner. i have been directly affected by covid. people need money. at the same time, they need food. i think they should come up with some kind of food voucher system so we can protect people from themselves. in the first round, we heard about walmart selling out of big-screen televisions. that is

and brent hill joining uz as well and karen swisher will also join us to discuss the salesforce numbersal with slack. mike santoli coming to you first. financials right up there with tech, with communication services, highlighting the point we mentioned that this was a sort of broad positive day even though we slipped approaching the close. >> eclectic. we talked about the treasury yields moving higher, .90 on the ten-year at the same time, high yield debt rallied really strongly today and compressed those spreads. that's all positive backdrop why not? we are processing the vaccines, the rising earnings estimates and expectations we are going to be through this period of difficulty ina while i think the issue becomes how overexcited it is. the market is overextended the bulls are pushing their luck it is not unusual but at some point you get where you need a lot more good news to feed it. >> joe, i like to track these numbers. s&p's year to date 27th record close, nasdaq 47th record close. people wonder is it too late to get in joe? joe? joe is frozen. mike santoli, do you want to take

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hill as well. the speaker, house speaker, nancy pelosi, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, both received their pfizer covid-19 vaccines today. and earlier, vice president pence, second lady karen pence, and the surgen general, jerome adams, received their first shots,ed a minutestered by a medical --ed a -- shots, administered by a medical team. we also heard from the vice president and surgeon general. >> we have confirmed that you are not feeling any symptoms of covid19 this morning and read all education materials pertaining to this vaccine. before, i have a couple questions for you. had a serious reaction to any previous vaccines? and are you taking any blood thinners or have any blood disorders? vice president pence: no. >> are you pregnant or breastfeeding? vice president pence: no. [laughter] >> are you immunocompromise or suppressant? vice president pence: no. >> all right. good to go. >> great job. great job. >> before you leave today, you will be getting a shot record proving you received the vaccine from us today. it's a twodose series so that means you will come back in 21 days for the second one. again, with any vaccine you could have a pretty sore arm at the inje

karen ward, j.p. morgan asset management chief market strategist for emea, still with us. your expectations around u.s. fiscal stimulus given what we heard on capitol hillious moving parts around the senate in january and then the transition to the biden administration? karen: yes, i mean, those sorts 500umbers in the sort of billion into a trillion are what we anticipated what would come. i think the timing has certainly been pushed back. we were questioning whether we would not get anything until after the fall inauguration. so it will be i think certainly welcome if we can get this side of the year. that would be an upside to us. say, that difficult senate election race we have coming up in georgia. it is positive news. it is really critical for thinking about the whole nature of how we are setting up the because021, -- 2021, because it has been this enormous support to incomes, which has largely been saved, that is essentially putting a recovery fund and consumer sector -- in the consumer sector. that sets us up next year for some good spending and gdp data. anna: it's interesting the role that good news place here, whether that's around underlying

when it comes to states, an op-ed in the hill recently appearing. this is from karen still got, who serves as the head of the massachusetts state senate. they wrote an op-ed talking about states needing stimulus. saying, when it comes to to draw fromwe had our savings while disappointing many who called on us to do more. we made it tough calls and did our jobs. when is congress going to do theirs? in a short number of weeks, we went from an estimated $1 billion surplus in fiscal 2021 to a shortfall estimated by some to be close to $600 billion. that gives you that state perspective coming from massachusetts. if you want to read it at the hill website. john in ohio, you are next, republican line. youer: first of all, thank for taking my call. i am a republican. i am a business owner. i have been directly affected by covid. people need money. at the same time, they need food. i think they should come up with some kind of food voucher system so we can protect people from themselves. in the first round, we heard about walmart selling out of big-screen televisions. that is

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but let's go back to the moment on capitol hill on the steps after the house passes the george floyd justice in policing act. congressional black caucus chair karenass, democrat of california, marks the moment. [video clip] on may 20 5, 2020, the world changed. the video could not be questioned. the slow murder of george floyd that took place over eight minutes and 46 seconds, is not up for speculation. prior to this gruesome murder, some even question cellphone video's. we don't know what happened before they camera was turned on. what did he do, what crime did he commit? because i never experienced anything like that. he had to have done something to deserve to be killed. not this time. this time hundreds of thousands of people in every state in the union are marching to make sure that he did not die in vain. that it will not be another black man dead at the hands of the police. sadly, people around the world are marching for human rights in america. the united nations has held discussions about human rights in america. we are supposed to be the beacon of hope for human rights in other countries, and the justice and policing act is a bill for h

but let's go back to the moment on capitol hill on the steps after the house passes the george floyd justice in policing act. congressional black caucus chair karen bass, democrat of california, marks the moment. [video clip] on may 20 5, 2020, the world changed. the video could not be questioned. the slow murder of george floyd that took place over eight minutes and 46 seconds, is not up for speculation. prior to this gruesome murder, some even question cellphone video's. we don't know what happened before they camera was turned on. what did he do, what crime did he commit? because i never experienced anything like that. he had to have done something to deserve to be killed. not this time. this time hundreds of thousands of people in every state in the union are marching to make sure that he did not die in vain. that it will not be another black man dead at the hands of the police. sadly, people around the world are marching for human rights in america. the united nations has held discussions about human rights in america. we are supposed to be the beacon of hope for human rights in other countries, and the justice and policing act is a bill for

hill as well. the speaker, house speaker, nancy pelosi, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, both received their pfizer covid-19 vaccines today. and earlier, vice president pence, second lady karen pence, and the surgen general, jerome adams, received their first shots,ed a minutestered by a medical --ed a -- shots, administered by a medical team. we also heard from the vice president and surgeon general.