we will talk to the national education association president, becky pringle, about what is on the mindsf teachers. it's time to take a quick look at the markets. we are seeing a rally, which is no surprise these days, but we are being led higher by the dow. the s&p 500 up by 1.25%. the nasdaq up by 1.7%. the dollar index continuing to strengthen at 91.20. gamestop, while it did go below 100, is at 115 now, down 48%. kailey leinz is with us to talk about ups. fourth-quarter earnings were a blowout. the strength in margins was particularly surprising. kailey: all of that online shopping that everyone has been doing during the pandemic is benefiting a company that helps get those goods to us. ups reporting a profit of two dollars 60 six cents, 24% above estimates. revenue around $25 billion came into billion dollars ahead of estimates. the volume was incredible. a lot of shopping going on. consumer packages rose to 67% of total volume, 11.6% of that coming from amazon. the big part of the story is also the pricing power that ups has been able to utilize. that brought revenue up to 7.8%. al

nation's educators. becky pringle with the national education association. joining the "newshour". >> thank you, stephanie. it's so good to be with you. >> woodruff: and tomorrow night, we'll hear a >> woodruff: tomorrow night, we will hear a different perspective making the case for in-person classes, and the consequences of keeping schools closed longer. and that is the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, please stay safe, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> fidelity wealth management. >> consumer cellular. >> johnson & johnson. >> bnsf railway. >> carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of international peace and security. at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour product

that on friday evening. >> you bring us the highlights on that. >>> in the meantime, the national education associationt educators to be back in our school buildings with our students but we must do that safely and the only way to do that is fully implement the strategies identified by the cdc. joining us is becky pringle. she is the president of the national education association and one of the authors of that letter we should note that the nea is the largest labor union in the united states representing 3 million people becky, what's the response that you've gotten from governors so far? >> good morning, becky it's good to be with you this morning. we issued that letter because at this point, we only -- we have about 23 states that have not yet prioritized vaccination for educators. and we know, i can tell you, becky, as a science teacher for over 30 years that educators all over this country want nothing more than to be back in person with their students. but we've been saying the same thing for 11 months. and that is, that we have to do that safely. and we have to pay attention to issues of equity

. >> and here to discuss is becky pringle, president of the national education association, the nation'sanks for coming on. >> it's good to be with you, pamela. >> so you just heard what dr. fauci said. do you believe, does the teachers union believe that vaccinating all teachers before schools reopen should be a requirement? >> pamela, let me begin by saying that as an eighth grade science teacher, that's right, i call it the wonder years, for over 30 years, this is what i know. every educator in this country, whether they are teachers or paraprofessionals or nurses or counselors, they want to be back in person with their students. that's what they want. but the reality is that for 11 months, we've waited to get the resources to do exactly what dr. fauci is saying and what dr. walensky is saying, what the cdc guidelines are saying we need in our schools. mask, wearing, we know that there are schools that don't have enough ppp or where they are not wearing them. we know our schools are not ventilated properly. all of those measures are cdc guidelines take a really good first step, but no

coming up, becky pringle, national education association president at 1:00 in new york, 6:00 in londonlix: live from new york, i'm alix steel. guy johnson is in london. this is the european close on bloomberg markets. italy's search for a new government looks like it is stalling. the parties that make up giuseppe conte's government are struggling to form a more permanent coalition. i'm not kidding that i read multiple articles trying to figure out where the political standoff was and i do not understand. what can we expect later on today? >> is a very good question and i do not have a good answer because the situation is very murky, very fluid, very unstable. what will happen later today is the speaker of the lower house will continue the talks among coalition parties will report to the president of the republic who is in charge of deciding who is next prime minister and he will report on the progress of the talks. we do not know whether they were successful. the signs are they have not been very successful. so far they have not broken down. for now things seem to have stalled. guy: we

a democrat party, national education association, american federation for teachers, this conglomerateucation but particular the cities, where many are too poor, they are stuck, they are told you are going to that government facility down the street, whether or not our kid is threatened or whether it safe or whether they are getting educated, whether or not you like it in america. what we need is a liberty agenda. what we need is a constitutional agenda. we need a true two party system in our inner-cities, we need cops to protect our people, and capitalism to create we'll, we need all things that exist in the rest of the country that are applied tonier city that are run by the democrats and their surrogates. i'll see you next time on "life, liberty and levin." steve: welcome to next revolution, i am steve hilton, home of popular pro american. this week, a team from the w.h.o. did finally visit the wuhan institute of virology. to map out of pandemic origin, and the nih response to our special investigation in a moment. but first, an absolutely incredible corruption story that amazingly

listen to this from the national education association president, becky pringle about why they're refusing to go back to the classroom. watch this. >> of course there's not enough money, joy. i went to the philadelphia schools and started teaching there. you know, their idea of ventilation fans, the cdc has laid out the guidelines and now it's time to take action. we've been waiting 11 months. still no money. >> martha: ronna, my question is what are they waiting for? they've had hundreds of millions of dollars allocated to make these changes. they were supposed to happen last summer. they've been home since march. so what is going on with this money? they have $57.5 billion allocated to make schools safe. that money has been there for some time. what is going on? >> like you said, march that there's money that has not been spent. over $50 billion that has not been spent. its been allocated for the schools. what is taking so long? joe biden gave a signature speech in september of 2020 calling on president trump to open the schools, calling it a national crisis. he came into office with no

president of the national education association and a middle school science teacher.eing here, appreciate your time. let's talk about the cdc guidelines for teachers. you know the teachers i know are nervous, nervous about having inperson classes again because of fear of obviously catching covid. do you think the cdc guidelines are clear enough, they make you feel comfortable with the idea of teachers going back? >> first of all, joy, it is so good to be with you. a little late to the party, saying congratulations but thank you for bringing voice to those issues that are so important. >> thank you. >> to americans. we are, we are very encouraged, joy, by the cdc guidelines. because they make clearer what we have been saying for the better part of a year, and you could probably recite it with me, joy, i bet you could, that we need to wear masks. we are clear about it, they are not giving room for whether you should or should not or how you should wear them. you heard dr. wolinsky say, they should be required that is different than what it has been before and of course,

amy: stacy gates, the national education association, nea, adjusted a survey.ey said 82% of teachers have nothing vaccinated. 70% will feel safer about working in person once vaccinated. 20% of white educators are vaccinated. 9% of black educators are vaccinated. can you talk abo the significance of this? >> i think the significance of this entire pandemic has fallen along the lines of race, racism, equity and and equity. what we see is the collapse of society at the same time we need the most -- we need the most. for instance, we are having a discussion about reopening schools without understanding what types of schools we are reopening. there is a standard that i think most people are thinking of when they think of schools. they are not thinking of schools on the west side of chicago whose facilities have not been upgraded for generations. they are not thinking of schools on the south side of chicago that have been perpetually unclean because we have privatized our janitorial staff. these are things that should be added to the context of cdc guidelines. cdc g

a national education association survey found only 18% of teachers who responded were vaccinated, although a large majority wanted to be. white teachers are vaccinated at twice the rate of black teachers around the united states. a new study in britain builds on report that a fast spreading variant found in the k leads to an increased risk of hospitalization and could be up to 75% more deadly. this comes as disability rights advocates in britain are condemning the discriminatory lease by the government and hospitals in treating covid-19 patients with mental disabilities. a recent investigation found do not resuscitate orders were given to people because they had mental disabilities causing potentially avoidable deaths. cnn reports a world health organization team probing the origins of covid 19 in wuhan, china, believes the outbreak was much more widespread in december 2019 than officials have revealed. elsewhere, new zealand's largest city auckland is in a three day lockdown after three coronavirus infections were identified. it's new zealand's first lockdown in six months after prime min

the national catholic education association reports its schools boast a total enrollment of 1,600,000 plus students. and they have moved heaven and earth to keep their classrooms open. it's been all private and public schools. most of the private schools are open and they have been teaching. most of the public schools receiving public money are closed and not teaching. note to taxpayer. biden has spoken out about school choice repeatedly in line with the uft. the private schools are getting along. but the parents of children in public schools are paying their taxes so their children can go to school. the public schools received $68 billion to assist them in making it safe to return. the teachers have been paid, but parents are doing the jobs of the teachers, not getting paid for it, and still paying school taxes to pay the teachers. public school teachers have been paid since this pandemic began. the science has been clear all along, the children are rarely if ever susceptible to covid. so if we take billions from public schools to re-open and reports are much of that money hasn't eve

look at the vaccination status according to this survey of around 3300 educators by the national education associationnd was that about 82% were not vaccinated. 82%. that is a huge number. and 70% said that a vaccine would make them feel safer to go back to school in person. now we were talking a little bit earlier about racial disparities. this is terrible. white educators are twice as likely to be vaccinated as black educators. that number, obviously, needs to change. >> yeah. a lot needs to change on that front for them. elizabeth, thank you for the reporting. >>> the senate has now doubled down on the constitutionality of president trump's second impeachment trial. how long can republicans use questions about that to dodge accountability? the holidays weren't exactly smooth sledding this year, eh santa? no, but we came through smelling of mistletoe. the now platform lets us identify problems before they became problems. if only it could identify where my ball went. this you? hmm... no, mine had green lights. whatever your business is facing. let's workflow it. maybe i should workflow my swing... s

on the full screen number two, these are political donations from 2020 from the national education associationf teachers 99.71% went to democrats. don't you think something is a little wrong when you try and examine -- i think he said go tampa. is there something wrong when we're trying to figure out the politics behind this and why these teachers unions have not figured out a way to cooperate and get kids back in school? >> it shows once again that the unions put the needs of adults before students and families and that has put the biden administration in a tricky spot. they have enjoyed that large if you will. i think the science as president biden likes to say follow the science is clear. we can put our students in school safely. we all agree students need to be back in school and we can do so safely. >> dana: you mentioned biden and the science. i want to show you sound on that point right here. >> president biden: we'll follow the science. we'll follow the science. let me say that again. let's end the politics and follow the science. if we follow the science and keep faith with one anothe

union membership from teacher's unions national education association over 3 million members.mbers. tell me those numbers don't swing an election and have a price to pay on the back end. pete: of course they do. and teachers unions are the foundation stone of the democrat party base. go to any state and the state teachers union is probably the most powerful lobby in that state. they give exclusively to democrats and expect a pay back in return. in the case of joe biden, as you pointed out, will, he gets 4 to 5 times more donations from national teachers unions than anyone else. you might say he is in bed with the teacher's unions except he actually is in bed in the teacher's union is that dr. jill biden is a member of a teacher's union. so at every turn he is going to favor the base of his own party and that's why, jed, you talked about it the cdc, the cdc director came out on wednesday and said i think schools could be opened safely. has doubled down on that. so this is a white house that said we are going to follow the science always. yet, their own cdc director is starting

according to the national education association, a quarter of the families with kids aged 5 to 17 either don't have a computer or don't have wireless internet. so the lockdowns have been especially tough in all of those kids in those settings. now, for many children, the lockdown has been far tougher on their health than coronavirus itself would be. that's because serious coronavirus symptoms among healthy children is extremely is rare, and congress has provided funding to prevent kids from spreading the coronavirus. done it by improving ventilation, by supporting social distancing and by disinfecting our classrooms. so while democrats were taking the orders from teachers' unions, senate republicans listened to the science. it's time for democrats to decide, are they going to put our kids first or are they going to continue to put the teachers' unions ahead of our kids? senate democrats have done our part to reopen our schools with incredible amounts of funding and support. it's no time for excuses, no time for backtracking. the science supports it. we have provided the funding. now, i w

in the workplace and have limited access to educational opportunities according to the national education association the high school graduation riffraff can americans was 67% 67% compao nationwide average of 81%. they continue to face racial segregation in housing and discrimination and the availability of quality healthcare services and most of the facts of life. covid-19 pendant is only exacerbated the effect of this structural racial disparities. workers on the front lines in low-paying jobs often not covered by unions in the south and collective bargaining, and lower wages and contact with people on the front lines where covid-19's spread. h.r. 40 would be an important step in finding effective long-term solutions to these problems once they can trace origins to our nation's shameful history of slavery and anti-black racism. professor ogletree noted as i mentioned earlier about the 40 acres and a mule, and he also put a focus on the poorest of the four including efforts to address copperheads of the problems of those have not substantially benefit from integration or affirmative action. i hope o

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education. she responded to a lawsuit brought by the national association for equal opportunity and higher education, the association i'm privilege to represent. it is the membership an advocacy association of all of the hbcus and all of the pwis. we brought litigation and after years of negotiation back and forth, she settled the case. and established principle that, it states that maintain dual higher education system, one black and one white, the state must invest in the hbcus so that they are programed are comparable given their missions, their facilities, their salaries and the like. that was 40 years ago. and then suing hears, many things have transpired. some of which have led to the current state, where hbcus are graduating 42% of african americans in science, technology, engineering and math. 50% of american public education professionals, 52% of blacks in agriculture, and the list goes on. some hbcus are collectively punching way above their weight and graduated the growing populations of the country. yet, in response to a question put forward about what we can do in the case, because in s

the national association for the education of young children surveyed over 6000 providers in december 2020. nearly half reported they knew multiple centers in their home or community that closed. 44% reported so much uncertainty they were unable to say how much longer they could stay open. these numbers are a call to action. in addition to being crucial for children's development and a vital support for parents, childcare's infrastructure, it holds up our economy, bridges workers and jobs, and like physical infrastructure, care infrastructure makes all other jobs possible. my testimony today will address how we got here, the effects of this crisis, and solutions to build a stronger childcare system. even before covid-19, america raised a quiet childcare crisis. families were struggling to find and afford childcare with fewer than one in seven children served by federal childcare programs. nearly half of americans lived in a childcare desert without sufficient supply. early educators, who are virtually all women and disproportionately women of color and immigrant women, were paid pover

nation's students, parents, educators and administrators face. certainly chief among those challenges right now is our nation's recovery from this global pandemic and the associatednomic downturn. during our last recession, america's community colleges played a real critical role in helping folks supply new skills and get connected to well-paying jobs in in-demand industries. career and technical education help unemployed americans get back to work and programs in middle school and high school can set students on a path to well paying jobs. i am a co-chair of the senate bipartisan cte caucus. and i'm always looking for ways to advance career and technical education. one way to do so is by making community and technical college affordable and accessible to more and more students of all ages and backgrounds. my america's college promise act would do just that by making two years of education at these institutions division-free. doctor, do you agree that strengthening career and technical education can help our nation's recovery? and if so, if confirmed, how do you plan to support these programs both through community colleges and in middle and high schools? >> than

but safety education stressed that most accidents were the workers' own fault. this film, made by the national associationf manufacturers in 1911, was one of many that singled out workers' carelessness as a cause of disaster. ♪ but many terrible tragedies were not caused by workers' carelessness. the same year that film was made, a fire burned the triangle shirt waist factory in new york. because many exits were locked, 146 people, most of them young immigrant women, died. again, it was only after the tragedy that the first permanent commission to inspect factory safety was set up in new york. during the same time, industry helped establish a system to compensate workers for accidents. while this system gave employees a measure of financial security for the first time, it took away their right to sue the company for damages. the amount of compensation was limited and workers were not represented on the boards that decided claims. the growing concern for workplace safety had noticeable results and accident and death rates fell. in fact, many industrialists thought the safety problem was solved. this safety

education of blacks in various parts of the nation in 1837. the institute of colored youth and pennsylvania was the first higher education institution for african americans and 1869 the american missionary association of the congressional church in the freemans aid society of the methodist episcopal church founded straight university and the union normal school in 1930 new orleans university and straight college merged to form dillard university landmark supreme court decisions may be possible for all people to go to the school of their choosing a doctor walter kimbrough says truly quality in education was not necessarily achieved through integration we are dillard university. he is the current president of dillard university run-up in and my dad is from atlanta. >>he couldn't go to the university of georgia because it was an integrated until 1961 and that was done by court or i went to university george in 1985, so you know within 25 years after being forced to integrate is when i went to the university of georgia. >>he says hbc use still have value in society today in the last 20 or 30 years people say we don't need a sri sues anymore because everything's integrate you can do all these kind of th

education of blacks in various parts of the nation in 1837. the institute of colored youth and pennsylvania was the first higher education institution for african americans and 1869 the american missionary association of the congressional church in the freemans aid society of the methodist episcopal church founded straight university and the union normal school in 1930 new orleans university and straight college merged to form dillard university landmark supreme court decisions may be possible for all people to go to the school of their choosing a doctor walter kimbrough says truly quality in education was not necessarily achieved through integration we are dillard university. he is the current president of dillard university run-up in and my dad is from atlanta. >>he couldn't go to the university of georgia because it was an integrated until 1961 and that was done by court or i went to university george in 1985, so you know within 25 years after being forced to integrate is when i went to the university of georgia. >>he says hbc use still have value in society today in the last 20 or 30 years people say we don't need a sri sues anymore because everything's integrate you can do all these kind of th

national association of jewish community centers, called jwb, the ywca, the salvation army, they joined together for a purpose that hasn't changed -- in their own words, to help serve the religious, spiritual, social welfare, educationaltional and entertainment needs of men and women in the armed forces. the armed forces themselves do a lot to provide for sparetime recreation on post or on base but they recognize the obvious , for service people with free , time, on post or on base does just is not where it is at. when i have a spare moment, i don't spend it hanging around the studio so i can see why a g.i.'s first move when he has time of is out the gate. luckily he has got some place to go. wherever they are based, it is pretty certain there is a uso club nearby. ♪ a good place to check into four cup of hot coffee, or relax and chew the fat with the guys. or maybe to something more substantial -- chew something more substantial without spending a fortune. play a game of cards or shoot a game of rotation. listen to some stereo or just sit and read. or on nights when it is not on the program, dance with a pretty girl. beats walking around the streets wondering where everybody went . ♪ all of this is typical. but it is

nationally less likely to get vaccinated. >> education, communication and language barrier. >> reporter: push is on to reach communities of color. >> someone who looks like me, understands me, can help me. >> reporter: associated study of 17 states and two cities found that black americans are also vaccinated at lower rates than white americans. >> i'm excited to get the first one. >> reporter: need to protect vulnerable populations even more urgent with three new variants detected in more than 30 states. former fda commissioner dr. scott godley telling "face the nation" there's new fears. >> risk to the fall when the new variants want to resurge. >> reporter: this week johnson & johnson is set to ask the fda for emergency use authorization for new vaccine. until then, americans can't roll up sleeves fast enough. >> anxious to get the shot. >> reporter: california's covid vaccination rates still lag behind other states but cases and hospitalizations are coming down. and new transportation mask mandate can only help to stop the spread. jericka. >> lilia luciano for us in los angeles tonight, thank you. >>> to the nation's capital now president biden this week is expected to push hard for his sweeping covid reli

education options like our nation's community, technical colleges. these colleges, like the outstanding institutions we have in south dakota, provide students with associates' degrees, certificates, apprenticeships, opportunities to learn a trade, and more. there are also things we can do to help students pay off loans without putting taxpayers on the hook for such massive amounts of money. in december, congress passed a five-year version of legislation that i introduced with senator warner to allow employers to help employees repay their loans. our employer participation and repayment act amends the educational assistance program to permit employers to make tax-free payments on their employee student loans. previously employers could make tax free contributions to their employers tuition if the employees were taking classes but couldn't make contributions to help employees with education debts they had already incurred. our bill allows them to make tax-free contributions with employees already existing student loan debt. that is a win-win situation. it's a win for employees who get help paying off their student loans, and it's a win for employers who have

national association of families for state schools founded by the families and victims in the parkland high school massacre that wrote respectfully requesting leader mccarthy requesting representative green be removed from the education of labor committee. i want to just quickly make clear once again it's been a long hearing but the constitution clearly provides with the house the independent authority, independent of the ethics committee to discipline of any of its members with a limitation of any right or privilege. we are well within our rights to do this and i would like to talk again to address the issue of precedent. you said this eloquently and i couldn't agree more. the president that we should be concerned with of not allowing members to traffic anti-semitism and racism and islamic phobia and violent threats against officials at the benefit of sitting on a committee in the house of representatives. the presence that they cannot trade the conspiracy theories without consequences and the members should not and cannot attack and harass private citizens let alone those of gun violence without consequences. mr. chairman, we do not have the chance to talk about but i would refer back to just last congress when the

communicate with customers and educate the public about the benefits of masking and vaccines joining us now in a first on cnbc interview is jay timmons, president of the national association of manufacturers good to see you, jay thank you for joining us. >> pleasure to be here. >> do you think your members are already on board with some of the benefits being talked about? >> i think it is very sensible and we are thrilled to finally have a partner in the white house that is taking covid very seriously, understands that if we don't get this under control we will never get our economy back, we will never get our society back so it is great to have this partnership withthe president, with the administration. yes, our manufacturers have been very serious about this from the start. the national association of manufacturers have launched about a year ago our creators respond effort and campaign to get people to wear masks and to also distance. and to do all the right things because we knew that we have very unique facilities and we wanted to keep our workers safe, their families safe, their communities safe >> do you think that masks or something that might stay around for long

board of education, get involved in the parent teacher association, know what's going on because we're going to have to fight, we're going to have to fight on both ends, at the local level and nationalver school district we end up deciding for her -- [laughter] because they'll have two very loud black parents that have a lot to say about what's going on in our daughter's education. and i think that's the kind of spirit that we need across this country if we want to see an end to this racial -- pete: you're exactly right. and, obviously, you received the right education, you understand it's a republic, not a democracy. there are finer points that are really important if you want to perpetuate citizenship. and it's racist to have lower expectations for people, that today can't get the right answer. jeremy hunt, thank you so much for your service and your perspective,. >> thank you. pete: liberals, leftists hoping for a big change. they could be in for a big disappointment. fox news host shannon bream joins us live to break it all down coming up. these days it's not that easy. you're telling me. but humana helps make it easy. human care gives you tons of ways to talk to your doctor: ph