michael strain, i want to start with you. we just heard from workers who have been on the front line fighting the pandemic, some of whom are making $10 an hour. given all the inequities that have been laid bare in the last year of this pandemic, is now the time to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. >> the economy has inequities and should be addressed by public policy. nobody disagrees with that. the question is what is the best tool to use in order to address those inequities, and i do not think the minimum wage, particularly a $15 hour minimum wage is the best tool. the congressional budget office nonpartisan kind of score keeper, referee in policy debates finds a $15 an hour minimum wage will reduce employment opportunities by over 1 million jobs. who's not going to be getting jobs? it's not going to be college graduates or workers who have higher skills, but who didn't graduate college, it's going to be the least skilled, least experience, most vulnerable workers in society who are going to bear the costs of t

michael strain is the director of economic policy studies at the american enterprise institute in washington. and aaron dubet is a professor of massachusetts amherst. i want to start with you, michael. we heard from workers who have been o the front line fighting the pandemic some of whom are making $10 an hour. given all the inequitys that have been laid bare in the last year of this pandemic, is now the time to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour? >> i think the economies does have inequities. and they should be addressed by public policies. don't disagree by. -- i don't disagree with it. the best question is how do we address those inequities? i don't think a $15 minimum wage is the best tool. the policy debates find for the $15 an hour minimum wage will reduce employment opportunity biss over -- opportunities by over one million jobs. who's going to be getting those jobs? it's going to be the at least skilled, least experienced, most vulnerable workers who are going to bear the costs of that policy. i would look to a different policy. i would look to federal earnings cities --

advancement of coloree people, and that's the naacp, w and janet mudeo, president and ceo, doctor michael strain who is an economists at the american enterprise institute.mo without objection yourny. writt statements will be made part of the record. each of you will have five minutes to summarize or testimony. a timer will go off at the end u of youric time. i would ask you to be mindful of the timer and quickly wrap up sf your testimony if you hear the time so we can be respectful ofa both the witnesses and the committee members' time. with that, mr. anthony, you are now recognized for five minutes to present your oral testimony. >> good morning, and thank you foair woman waters and congressman hill and membersrm the committee. i am ceo and director of the national league of cities and s the a. former mayor of south ba, florida for over 24 years. is national league of cities the nation's foremost resource and advocate for governments ans their leaders representing 19,000 cities, towns and villages and many of your districts. today i am speaking on behalf oo all those governments that have gone

the power of a mother�*s words, and a hint too of the mounting strain of being a carer in a pandemic. michaelliant to allow us to come to her arena so that michael can continue riding, and have a little bit of normality in his life, as everything outside is changed. joyce feels grateful but michael is one ofjust a handful of people able to continue with his riding sessions at a time when thousands of disability sports facilities throughout the uk are closed. just five of 500 riding for the disabled association groups are currently operating and the charity�*s president says support is needed to help them bounce back. our ability to maintain the funds to keep particularly the bigger groups going, which can have a real impact, will be a bit of a struggle. some of them will be, what, nearly a year since they functioned. i am hoping that is not so long that they will have forgotten the benefits, indeed for those who took part, but i think there will need to be good support from the highest levels. even once facilities can reopen, it is expected there will be challenges in rebuilding confidence le

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between vaccinating enough people and the more transmissible strains of covid popping up and spreading. former biden covid adviser dr. michael osterholm is sounding the alarm. >> the fact is that the surge that is likely to occur with this new variant from england is going to happen in the next six to 14 weeks. and if we see that happen, which my 45 years in the trenches tells me we will, we are going to see something like we have not seen yet in this country. england, for example, hospitalizing twice as many people as we ever hospitalized at our highest number. so we do know that if we look at these first doses, that in fact we can even get higher numbers than you just laid out by the time of the third week after vaccination. so we still want to get two doses in everyone, but i think right now in advance of the surge, we need to get as many one doses in as many people over 65 as we possibly can to reduce the serious illness and deaths that are going to occur over the weeks ahead. >> right now the u.s. is up to an average of 1.3 million vaccine doses administered daily. it is going up. but here's the thing, that's going in t

michael saylor. and now 500 other c.e.o.'s in the s. and p. 500 like you know it that's a darn good idea. mutating strains of the coronavirus could mean that britain's will have to get vaccinated all over again this year at least that's the warning from the u.k.'s prime minister . i think we're going to have to get used to the idea that rebound in the autumn as we as we come to place these new variants well more than 4000000 people have been of infected in the u.k. and with nearly 117000 deaths it has one of the highest mortality rates in europe adding to the concern are studies that show britain's astra zeneca job offers only limited protection against new variants of the virus or thirty's and now extending doorstep testing across the country to check whether people have the disease over some experts say it's still important to use it as a protect against the worst effects of the mutations. this comes after the head of the parliamentary health committee said the u.k.'s code response had been mishandled jeremy hunt added that above all the government should have reacted quicker as a country we have not go

the power of a mother's words, and a hint too of the mounting strain of being a carer in a pandemic. michaelinue with his riding sessions at a time when thousands of disability sports facilities throughout the uk are closed. just five of 500 riding for the disabled association groups are currently operating and the charity's president says support is needed to help them bounce back. our ability to maintain the funds to keep particularly the bigger groups going, which can have a real impact, will be a bit of a struggle. some of them will be, what, nearly a year since they functioned. i am hoping that is not so long that they will have forgotten the benefits, indeed for those who took part, but i think there will need to be good support from the highest levels. even once facilities can reopen, it is expected there will be challenges in rebuilding confidence levels. i think there is a concern but that is because it is very easy for people to get out of the habit, and if you have taken a long time to build up partnerships and networks of people and places to go that provide that level of support

michael, i love your thoughts about derek webb's questions about whether these mentors became substitute father figures for lincoln given his famously strained relationship with his father and i want you to talk about lincoln's other intellectual influences as a child. you so interestingly tell us you read the bible and he sought fables and the person muses biography of george washington. tell us he got from their classical distinction of region and passion and weems talking about washington's true heroes val fowler which conquers unreasonable self and then you say lincoln read and when i read this in your manuscript i checked it outto and it's worthy how classical it is . he was popular through his youth and every school kid read it, but it was full of classical moral act axioms from the ancient greeks and romans and magazines like the spectator and enlightened moral sources all of whom inspired the founders and you say he read his history of the founding william grimshaw . so tell us about the way all those sources which is so fascinatingly reconstruct basically put lincoln into the mind of the founders even at least exerts from the same c

strain from south africa if it becomes dominant. calls now for the administration to prioritize getting more first doses to people including michael osterholmt at university of minnesota and former medical adviser to president biden's transition team. >> you and i are sitting on this beach where it is 70 degrees, perfectly blue skies, gentle breeze. but i see that hurricane category 5 or higher 450 miles offshore. telling people to evacuate in that nice, blue sky day, is going to be hard but i can also tell you that hurricane is coming. >> today the biden administration indicated it would stick to the two dose schedule. want to get perspective from our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta, dr. leana wen, cnn analyst. there is obviously hope when the vaccine started rolling out. now with all the variants the hope is certainly if not fading certainly more cloudy. should it be? experts say it could be a long time before we get back to a real sense of normalcy. >> i think this has added a lot of urgency to an already very urgent situation. bad news first. people who have been infected by this coronavirus and have their own antibodies, t

michael osterholm at the university of minnesota and medical advisor. does that mean own one of the variants we know could be somewhat resistant to the vaccines? >> up until now that particular straintalking about b 117 or the u.k. strain has only had the ability and i say only because it can cause more infection and more severe disease. for the first time british officials found it acquired the mutation that we've been talking about with the south african strain to avoid the immune protection we get from vaccines from natural disease. obviously, this is not a good development as this b 117 has shown how well it is able to be transmitted around the world. >> so sanjay, i find this a little confusing because fauci said it's not great news but a booster shot could be developed for each of these variants because they're kind of in the same family of the virus. is that still the case, or is this just saying that there is basically more and more variants, the number of very ya -- veariants is growing? >> some of the variants like the one in the u.k. are acquiring more mutations or mutations that we've seen in other variants, so that's part of the problem -- >> so wait. it's not -- so th

seen among strains in south africa and brazil that could make it resistant to vaccines or lead to reinfection. want perspective from our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta and dr. michaelrector of the center for infectious disease, research and policy at the university of of minnesota and medical adviser during president joe biden's transition. i want to ask you about the report. does that mean one of the variants we know could be more transmissible, could be somewhat resistant to the vaccines? >> up until now that particular strain you're talking about b 117 or the u.k. strain has only had the ability and i say only because it's still significant to cause more infection and likely more severe disease. now for the first time british officials found it also acquired the mutation we've been talking about with the south african strain and the brazilian strain that could possibly help it avoid the immune protection that we get from vaccines or natural disease. obviously, this is not a good development as this b 117 has shown how well it is able to be transmitted around the world. >> so sanjay, i find this a little confusing because fauci said with these variants that, you

michael osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the university of minnesota. welcome back to "meet the press." earlier this week, you and i spoke about this current race against these mutant strains and about the vaccine distribution, and you seemed to -- you said something that really stuck with me, so i want to show this screen. this is the efficacy rate of the first doses of the three of the vaccines -- moderna at 80%, johnson & johnson 72%, pfizer at 52%. again, all the first-dose efficacy rates. do you believe we are now at a point where we may have to call an audible here on how we distribute the vaccine? >> well, first of all, let me just say that i have been one of those saying that we need to make sure that we have both first and second doses of that and follow the fda approval process. but let me say right now, we do have to call an audible. i think there's no doubt about it. the fact is, is that the surge that is likely to occur with this new variant from england is going to happen in the next 6 to 14 weeks. and if we see that happen, which my 45 years in the trenches tell us we will, we are going to see something like we have not seen yet in this country. england, for

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