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Olivia Jade SCANDAL Results in Guilty Plea, Kendall Jenner, & Recession Unemployment Problems - YouTube
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- Sup ya beautiful bastards,
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hope you're having a fantastic Thursday.
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Welcome back to the Phillip DeFranco Show.
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And a quick note before we get started.
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This is actually the second video
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I uploaded today on this channel.
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I know we're usually once a day,
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but we had so many things to talk about
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and so this morning I
covered the heavily requested
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call her daddy story.
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If you're unfamiliar, it is a ride,
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I highly recommend you
watch it after today's show,
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but this is The Phillip DeFranco Show,
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so buckle up, hit that like button
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and let's just jump into it.
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And the first thing we're
gonna talk about today
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is Fyre Fest, well thank you to them
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for sponsoring today's show, I'm kidding.
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Yeah actually Fyre Festival
is back in the news
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years after, I forgot
how long ago this was,
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it happened in 2017.
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An event that was such a disaster,
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it resulted in multiple criminal charges,
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spawned documentaries,
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some of which that were actually made
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by people that were
involved in the process.
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Also on this journey we
learned what this man
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would do for a bottle of water.
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Which, no disrespect,
that's just dedication.
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But for those unfamiliar
with what this thing was.
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It was this promised glamorous
weekend in the Bahamas.
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It was supposed to be the
cultural experience of the decade
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and ticket packages ranged
from 1200$ to over 100000$.
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And yeah they were supposed
to give their guests
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access to luxurious
accommodations, gourmet food,
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musical performances from
acts like Blink-182 and Migos.
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But of course none of
that actually happened
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and we ended up just seeing
stranded festival goers,
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people in FEMA tents.
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You get people wondering
how the hell did this thing
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that seemed so legitimate,
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had so many big names seemingly involved,
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how did this happen?
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And part of the reason for that is,
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you had massive influencers
promoting this event.
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Which actually brings us
to one, Kendall Jenner,
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and two, updates we're seeing now.
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All right, Kendall was actually
one of the biggest names
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promoting this event on social media.
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Because of that in August of 2019,
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she was sued in New
York's US Bankruptcy court
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by Gregory Messer, who is a trustee
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recovering money and assets for creditors
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who did business with the festival.
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And according to court documents,
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Kendall Jenner was paid 275000 dollars
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to post about the
festival on her Instagram
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in January of 2017.
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That since deleted post was captioned
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"So hyped to announce my
G.O.O.D. Music Family as the
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first headliners for @fyrefestival,
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use my promo code for the next 24 hours
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to get on the list for the artists
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and talents afterparty on Fyre Cay".
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And so you had the
lawsuit accusing Kendall
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of intentionally leading
the public to believe
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that Kanye West, who founded
the G.O.O.D music label,
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was set to perform at this event.
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With the suit stating,
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"This conduct demonstrates a clear lack
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of good faith on Jenner's part".
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It was also noted that Kendall did not
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properly specify that her
post was a paid promotion
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which caused her to receive a warning
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from the Federal Trade Commission.
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And as far as the reason
we're talking about it now,
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it's being reported that
Kendall has now settled.
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And so as part of the agreement,
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she will pay 90000$ for her
role in promoting this event,
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which of course is less than half
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of what she earned from the post itself.
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Now as we're recording this,
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she hasn't made an official
statement about the settlement,
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but she did actually talk about her
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involvement with the event
in March of last year.
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And in that interview with
the New York Times she said,
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"You get reached out to by people to,
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whether it be to promote
or help or whatever,
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and you never know how these things
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are going to turn out,
sometimes it's a risk".
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but then also saying
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"I definitely do as
much research as I can,
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but sometimes there isn't
much research you can do
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because it's a starting
brand and you kind of
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have to have faith in it
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and hope it will work out
the way people say it will".
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Now a big note here is that
Jenner isn't the only one
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who was hit with a lawsuit for
connections to the festival.
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Claims were also filed
against other celebrities like
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Emily Ratajkowski, Migos, Pusha
T, Blink-182 and Lil Yachty.
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And of course the person hit
the hardest from this situation
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is Finer Media founder Billy McFarland,
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who of course is currently
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serving out a six year prison sentence
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after pleading guilty to wire fraud.
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With him also being ordered to repay
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the 26 million he
defrauded from investors.
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Yeah, that's the story.
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And here's the question
I would pass of to you,
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is, what do you think about
that 90000$ settlement?
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Do you think it was uncalled for,
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do you think she was misled as well?
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Or maybe do you think it makes sense,
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or do you maybe think it is not enough.
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Why, why not, anything
you thoughts on with this,
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I'd love to know in those
comments down below.
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And then let's talk about Lori
Loughlin back in the news.
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Of course she was previously known
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as being Aunt Becky on Full House.
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Now, she is known as being Aunt Becky,
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who was a part of the
college admission scandal.
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And the news around this today
is that she and her husband,
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Mossimo Giannulli are planning
to enter a guilty plea.
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So, as you might remember,
back in March of last year,
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these two were part of a
huge group of wealthy parents
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charged with falsifying documents
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to get their kids into elite colleges.
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And Loughlin and Giannulli
specifically were accused
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of paying 500000$ to
get their two daughters
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Isabella Rose and Olivia Jade
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into the University of Southern California
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as false rowing recruits.
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Right, when the indictments came out,
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they initially pleaded
not guilty to the charges,
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which was really something
of a shock at that time
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because many of the
parents who were involved
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were quicker to enter guilty pleas.
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Right, with many thinking
that entering a deal
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and getting a shorter sentence in the end
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would just be the easier option.
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But these two maintained their innocence.
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Saying that they believed
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that they were making
a legitimate donation.
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And so unlike many of the parents
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who did quickly enter plea deals,
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Loughlin and Giannulli ended up
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getting hit with more charges.
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And as more started to unfold,
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you also saw that much of the evidence
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did not help their case.
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Right, just last month,
photos that were allegedly
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part of this scam to get
their daughters into USC
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were released along with
bunch of other evidence.
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Right and those photos
appearing to show Olivia
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and Isabella on rowing machines
pretending to be athletes.
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And along with those photos,
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there was also email correspondence
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between Giannulli and Rick Singer,
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who is the ring leader of the
college admission scandal.
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And those appear to show
Singer requesting action shots
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of the girls so that he could build
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fake athletic profiles.
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But still, with all of this,
we had Loughlin and Giannulli
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maintaining that they were innocent.
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In fact, they even made
a bid to drop the charges
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against them, citing misconduct
by federal agents involved,
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claiming that they fabricated evidence.
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But unfortunately for
them, just two weeks ago,
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that bid was rejected by a judge.
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Meaning that Loughlin and Giannulli would
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have to go to trial in October
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when a bunch of other parents
involved in the scandal
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were taking the stand.
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And there, if they were found guilty,
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after going to trial,
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they could face up to 20 years
in prison for conspiracy.
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Which is much worse than the sentencing
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of their new guilty plea,
which they're scheduled
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to formally enter tomorrow.
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This also notably making
them the 23rd and 24th
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parents to enter a guilty plea
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for the college admission scandal.
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And as far as the specifics
of the plea agreements,
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Loughlin will reportedly
be pleading guilty
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to one count of conspiracy
to commit wire fraud,
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mail fraud, with the other charges
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against her being dismissed,
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with her reportedly agreeing
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to a sentence of two months in prison.
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A fine of 150000$, two
years supervised release
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and 100 hours of community service.
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Now Giannulli on the other hand,
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will be pleading guilty
on one count of conspiracy
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to commit wire and mail fraud
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and honest services wire and mail fraud.
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Here they're dropping the
other charges as well.
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And he's agreed to five months in prison,
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a 250000$ fine, 2 years supervised release
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and 250 hours of community service.
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Though, in both of their
cases, a judge will ultimately
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decide the extent of their punishment.
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Looks like we're gonna have to wait
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and see what happens there.
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Now of course following this announcement,
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this became a huge topic
of conversation online.
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Both Aunt Becky and Lori Loughlin
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quickly became trending topics on twitter.
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With a lot of people thinking
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that these sentences are kind
of just a slap on the wrist,
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which, there was a very similar
discussion that people had
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back when Felicity Huffman was sentenced
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to just 14 days for her participation.
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But she reportedly had her
child's SAT scores faked,
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and while she only got those 14 days,
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that came after prosecutors recommended
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she get four months.
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And Huffman also didn't have
to serve the full 14 days,
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she ended up being released after just 11.
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And connected to what people
said were light sentences,
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you had a lot of people
bringing up situations
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like that of Tanya McDowell.
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If you're unfamiliar, she's
a woman in Connecticut
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who lied about her address to get her son
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into a better school district.
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She was reportedly homeless,
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living out of a van at the time,
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she used her babysitter's address.
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And Tanya ended up
getting a 5 year sentence.
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This after entering a plea deal
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encompassing charges related to this,
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as well as drug charges.
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Right so there are people
making the comparison
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saying that this injustice,
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that people that have more money
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are treated different by our government.
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Also with this Loughlin situation,
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there are people
wondering if they are even
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going to serve their sentence
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or if they're gonna serve
their sentence maybe from home
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because of the coronavirus
situation right now
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and the fact that this
is a nonviolent crime.
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But that's where we are
with this story now.
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We're gonna have to see
what this judge does,
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what the actual sentence will be.
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And here I will pass
the question off to you.
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What are your thoughts on this?
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Is this just a slap on the wrist,
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cause it's kind of a Goldilocks question,
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is it too little, too much, just right?
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Let me know what you're thinking, and why.
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And then let's talk about this situation
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that's led to thousands of
people saying boycott FedEx.
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All right so there's
video that's gone viral
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that appears to show a confrontation
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between two FedEx workers and a customers.
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All right so reportedly these two workers
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who are black men were
out delivering packages
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in a small town in Georgia.
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And according to one of the
workers, Antonio Braswell,
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this confrontation happened
as they were delivering
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a package to a house.
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With Braswell then saying a
white man runs out of the house
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cussing at them, threatening them,
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Braswell then adding that
this man kept escalating
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the situation and then kept saying
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he would whoop our black asses.
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Wit him going on to say that the man then
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told his wife to call the police.
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That man then allegedly
follows these two workers,
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he pulls out his phone to record them.
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However, Braswell says that he
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and his coworker drive away at first,
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but then the man cusses at them again.
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And that's when he says his
coworker stops the truck,
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gets out of the truck,
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with Braswell then recording the incident
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from there from his own phone.
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- You don't have to come out there
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cussing me like that like I'm some child.
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I aint no little boy, I'm no little boy,
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I'll wait til the police come.
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- [Braswell] You can
record all you want bruh,
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I gotchu, I gotchu bruh.
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- That's where your
power went right there,
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that's your power, that's his power,
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that's where your power went right there.
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- Where you going?
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- Man I aint finna waste my time with you,
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you got my information,
you got my information,
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they'll find me, they'll find me.
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You need to get your glasses back on.
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- [White Man] I thought you
were waiting for the cops?
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- Yeah I thought you were
gonna whoop my (bleep) too.
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- And that's all we actually
get to see from this incident
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because that's also where the video ends.
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But according to Braswell the
police arrived soon after.
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Both sides apparently
gave their testimony,
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according to Braswell, the man
who allegedly confronted them
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told police that the two employees
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looked like they would've
broken into the house
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while his wife was at home.
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You know and with accusations like that,
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you had Braswell saying,
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"Mind y'all we go through
this all the time".
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But adding, "he was the first
to actually come at us crazy
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and all we doing is our job.
We work six days out the week
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to deliver these packages
during the coronavirus".
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But ultimately that's the incident,
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at least according to Braswell.
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To be fair here, the
other man in this video
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has not yet been identified,
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so we have not yet heard
his side of the story.
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But what we have seen is
this video just blow up.
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In the past couple of
days it's been viewed
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more than six million
times on just twitter alone
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and in the process of it blowing up,
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yesterday we saw another development,
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with Braswell tweeting,
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"Update FedEx called and told me
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to take down this video
and fired both of us today.
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I'm reposting this video
because people like him
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doesn't matter white or any
race should never disrespect
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essential worker putting
their lives in jeopardy
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essentially with this covid-19".
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From there we've also seen a gofundme
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page being created for these men
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and just over the course of a day
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it's already raised 63000$ with money
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reportedly set to be
split between the two men.
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Also of course resulted in
the #BoycottFedEx trending,
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with tons of people calling for
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these workers to be reinstated.
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And as far as a response from FedEx,
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we actually saw them release a statement
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late last night saying
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"We are aware of the incident in Georgia
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that led to the release of two drivers
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employed by a service provider.
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We're offering employment
while investigating
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to ensure an appropriate outcome.
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We take seriously allegations
of discrimination,
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retaliation, or improper
employment actions".
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Right, so FedEx essentially
trying to clarify
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this situation saying
we did not fire them,
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it was actually an independent contractor.
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With them saying that they're
gonna be looking into it
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and offering them jobs at the company.
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As we're recording this
video it doesn't appear
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that Braswell has responded
to that offer from FedEx.
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We've also seen a number of media outlets
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reaching out for comment.
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But so far Braswell hasn't
responded to those either.
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Ultimately with this story,
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I do wanna pass a question off to you.
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What are your thoughts
based off of what we have?
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Do you have an opinion based
off of what we've seen here?
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Or do you want to wait to
see what else comes out?
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The last thing we're
gonna talk about today,
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is it's Thursday, which
means we get that depressing
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and developing news around unemployment
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and what we're gonna do about it.
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All right so today the
US government reported
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that another 2.4 million people
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filed for unemployment last week,
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bringing the official total
count to more than 38 million.
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And while that still
supports this downward trend
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that we've seen over the last few weeks,
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that's really only one part
of a much bigger picture.
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Right, almost 40 million people
have filed for unemployment
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over the last nine weeks
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and that doesn't even count
the estimated million more
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that are currently applying
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or waiting for their
applications to be approved.
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And while many places are reopening
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and more people are going back to work,
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those numbers might not be as
optimistic as many have hoped.
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In fact continuing claims,
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which show how many people
are still collecting
[781]
unemployment after their
initial application
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grows by 2.5 million
to a record 25 million.
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Which we've seen reports state,
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is a sign unemployment is
lingering even as states reopen.
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Although and this is
an important note here
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and also in several other places
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because there are delays.
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That figure we were just talking about
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is reported on a 2-week lag,
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so it might not be representative
of recent reopenings.
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But that said, a lot of
people are still hurting,
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in fact according to a
recent household survey
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from the census bureau, 47% of adults say
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that they or someone in their household
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have lost employment
income since March 13th.
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And nearly 40% expected
that they or someone
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in their household would
lose employment income
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over the next four weeks.
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Which brings up a very major concern here.
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More and more economists are now warning
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that many of the job losses
meant to be temporary
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could be permanent.
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With one recent report published
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by the University of Chicago's
Becker Friedman Institute
[825]
estimating that 42% of
recent layoffs will result
[828]
in permanent job loss.
[829]
But despite all of
that, what we're seeing,
[831]
is that President Trump
and top Republicans
[832]
have said that they want to end
[833]
enhanced federal unemployment benefits
[835]
that were laid out onto the stimulus bill.
[836]
All right so normally state governments
[838]
are the ones that give
out unemployment benefits,
[839]
but under the Cares
Act, congress authorized
[842]
and additional 600$ a week on top of that
[844]
for all unemployed Americans.
[845]
But those extra benefits
are set to expire in July.
[848]
Now notably the $3
Trillion Stimulus Package
[850]
passed be the House on Friday
[852]
would extend those benefits
until the end of the year
[854]
but Republicans and more importantly
[855]
because of the two Houses in Congress,
[857]
Senate Republicans, have broadly rejected
[858]
a number of the provisions in the bill.
[860]
And also according to reports,
[861]
Trump has privately
expressed his opposition
[862]
to extending those benefits
[864]
during a private meeting on Tuesday.
[865]
Also just yesterday we saw Republican
[867]
and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
[868]
reportedly saying that the
enhanced unemployment benefits
[870]
will not be in the next package.
[871]
With McConnell also reportedly
saying the Republicans are
[874]
"going to have to clean up
the Democrats' crazy policy
[876]
that is paying people
more to remain unemployed
[878]
than they would earn if
they went back to work".
[879]
Right so and that appears
to be one of the big reasons
[881]
that Republicans want to end the benefits.
[882]
All right essentially
it's the classic promotion
[884]
of laziness argument that
people use against welfare
[887]
and universal basic income.
[888]
All right they believe
that if unemployed people
[889]
are getting more money from unemployment
[891]
than they would from their normal job
[892]
or even if they're able
to just get by existing
[894]
on those benefits, then
they won't go back to work.
[895]
And you know here there has
been some anecdotal evidence
[897]
of companies saying
they're having a hard time
[899]
getting their workers to
go back to their old jobs.
[901]
Although according to
reports some workers say
[902]
that this is just
because they're concerned
[903]
about unaddressed safety issues.
[905]
But also here's the thing
with this situation.
[907]
Legally speaking people who
are offered reemployment
[910]
and then turn it down are likely
[911]
to actually lose their
unemployment benefits.
[913]
But then this also puts
employers in a hard spot
[915]
because they have to make hard choices
[916]
about keeping their business afloat,
[918]
as well as rehiring people,
[919]
who genuinely in these
really tough financial times
[921]
with the system that is in place now
[923]
might actually be better
off on unemployment.
[925]
And it turns out that is
true for a lot of people.
[927]
While some studies estimate
that only about 40%
[929]
of workers made less at their jobs
[930]
than they would get
from expanded benefits,
[932]
others have said that two
thirds of unemployed workers
[934]
who are getting these benefits
[935]
are taking home more than they would
[936]
from their previous job.
[937]
But on the other side of this debate,
[938]
you have a lot of people saying,
[939]
well that's a good thing.
[940]
Not just for everyday
people who are hurting
[942]
but for the economy as a whole.
[943]
Right, as the Washington Post reported,
[944]
unemployment benefits
represent a critical component
[946]
of the country's recovery
effort, as the weekly payments
[949]
to out-of-work Americans
function as a form
[951]
of stimulus in their own right.
[952]
All right so normally joblessness benefits
[953]
are supposed to provide around
45% of a person's wages.
[956]
But in order to also boost the economy,
[958]
the extra 600$ in the Cares Act
[960]
is intended to be enough
to give most people
[962]
100% of their lost wages.
[963]
And as Chad Stone, the top economist for
[965]
Center on Budget and Policy Priority said,
[966]
"Unemployment insurance
in a normal recession
[968]
is a great stimulus because it
has high bang for your buck.
[971]
People spend it, it's very valuable
[972]
to the people receiving it,
[973]
and it's beneficial to the economy".
[975]
All right so that's this
economic domino effect idea
[977]
that we've talked about before.
[978]
When people aren't working
or don't have enough money,
[980]
they don't spend it on bars,
[981]
restaurants, clothes, electronics, etc.
[983]
But when those places don't make money,
[985]
they have to lay off people,
[986]
which means more people don't have money.
[987]
All right so and the argument here is
[988]
that if we give people who
lost their jobs more money,
[990]
then they'll spend it and
put it back into the economy.
[992]
And with rising concerns
about more and more
[994]
of these job losses
being seen as permanent,
[996]
that could be incredibly important
[997]
for supporting the
economy in the longterm.
[999]
And in general you see
a number of economists
[1000]
saying that's the big picture.
[1002]
The longterm, not this short term.
[1003]
All right that normal 45% of your wages
[1005]
would be okay if you're out
of a job for a little while.
[1007]
But if the previously
believed temporary job loss
[1009]
is a permanent job loss,
[1011]
you need to plan for the distance.
[1012]
For example during the
2008 financial crisis
[1014]
congress extended unemployment benefit
[1015]
eligibility up to 99 weeks.
[1017]
And while it was expensive and
it was a controversial move,
[1020]
some experts say that these
payments were essential
[1022]
for people who were
unemployed for way longer
[1024]
than their states would
normally give them benefits.
[1025]
Which currently is around 26 weeks
[1027]
in most parts of the country.
[1028]
But ultimately that's where
we are with this right now.
[1030]
We're gonna have to wait
to see what Congress does,
[1031]
how the situation in the country
[1033]
just continues to develop.
[1034]
I'll let this story out
and pass two questions.
[1036]
One, what are your thoughts in general
[1037]
about extending this federal aid
[1039]
to people that are unemployed
[1040]
and two, what are you
currently going through?
[1042]
Have you lost your job,
[1044]
are you in fear of losing your job,
[1046]
are you worried about the rent next month?
[1048]
Anything and everything, let me know
[1049]
what you're thinking in
those comments down below.
[1051]
And that is where I'm
going to end today's show.
[1053]
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[1069]
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[1070]
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