But the quickest way for the White House to get across the finish line is to add a little more. Privacy Notice Democrats and the Trump administration remain within shouting distance of a deal that would put Senate Republicans on the spot. He can’t seem to make up his mind. President Trump and Congress need to rise to the moment. Those safety concerns have proved very prudent. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 11 million viewers and the “CBS Evening News” had 7.4 million. Do Not Sell My Personal Information, Your California Privacy Rights During the week of March 16, Nielsen said that U.S. consumers streamed 156.1 billion minutes of content. She is a mathematician who has worked as a professor, hedge-fund analyst and data scientist. The latest would provide $2.2 trillion, largely aimed at those who need it most, including health care providers, unemployed workers and local governments. ABC’s “World News Tonight” led the evening newscasts with an average of 11.9 million viewers. “American Idol” (Monday), ABC, 7.02 million. The question, then, is what will happen to the enormous jobless underclass that such an accelerated shift to automation will create. NBC had 4.72 million viewers in prime time, ABC had 4.66 million, Fox had 3.4 million, Univision had 1.7 million, ION Television had 1.3 million, Telemundo had 1.2 million and the CW had 600,000 viewers. This is where I think the sheer magnitude of the coronavirus crisis might actually help, for three reasons. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 7.01 million. Aid for state and local governments is also essential. The pandemic will accelerate automation. My Election Office People will probably welcome the brave new world, particularly if it’s more hygienic. 15. 122,069, This story has been shared 69,339 times. Second, the jobless are not perceived, and do not perceive themselves, as at fault for their predicament. Instead of watching their own finances crater, shut-in television viewers tuned in to the game show “Let’s Make a Deal” in record numbers last week. The greater danger is not doing enough. Democrats have made a series of progressively smaller proposals since May.

174,517, This story has been shared 171,033 times. The nation needs another round of federal aid. CBS was the most popular network in prime time, averaging 6.3 million viewers and led by the best ratings for “NCIS” this year. It was up 43 percent among viewers aged 12 to 17, which leads to questions about how much homeschooling was being accomplished. Do Not Sell My Personal Information. 171,033, This story has been shared 122,069 times. News dominated the cable world again, with Fox News Channel averaging 4.23 million viewers in prime time. This story has been shared 171,033 times. This might be an opportunity for workers. Terms of Use He failed to press for a deal in September, as evidence accumulated that more aid was needed. Nielsen hasn’t computed the numbers for last week yet, but during the previous week, television usage overall was up 18 percent over the same week a year ago. Don't miss out on your chance to win BIG! Excluding special crossover episodes, “Chicago Fire” recorded its most popular episode in six years, while “Chicago Med” and “Chicago PD” had their largest audiences in four years, Nielsen said. Democrats are right to insist that a stimulus bill should help those who need it most. The pandemic has made me reconsider the sanctity of work.

TV programs across the dial recorded superlatives last week with a captive audience of millions of Americans told to stay home because of the coronavirus. On Friday, the administration suggested it would back as much as $1.8 trillion in spending — just a little less than the $2.2 trillion in the last House proposal. Some jobs just aren’t good enough to protect. Increased usage was even more striking in Nielsen’s measurements of streaming. It also has complicated the negotiations. So this crisis brings with it an opening for collective action. Have a confidential tip for our reporters? This story has been shared 174,517 times. Senate Republicans want a significantly smaller bottom line. Credit...Illustration by The New York Times; photographs by Getty Images. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 6.54 million. Third, and perhaps most important, real change will look newly possible in light of the unprecedented measures the government has already taken to combat the crisis. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! It’s not just meat packing plants. Passenger shoves cyclist to her death— then fatally falls out of window. 69,339, © 2020 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved

This is a natural disaster, beyond their control. Instead, over the last week, Mr. Trump engaged in manic bursts of tweeting, first insisting he wanted a stimulus deal, then pulling the plug on negotiations, then insisting he was ready to talk, then insulting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, then insisting again that he wanted to act.

If you worry that robots will render human workers obsolete, the coronavirus pandemic offers ample reason to worry more: Surely companies will take the opportunity to replace demanding, imperfect people with machines or artificial intelligence wherever possible. That said, I’m hoping the crisis will also create an opportunity to negotiate better terms with our algorithmic overlords. First, when so many people are suddenly and violently thrown out of work at the same time, it creates a sense of solidarity that a slow, insidious process such as offshoring does not. It is easier to talk in person, but Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has refused to visit the White House in recent months, citing the administration’s failure to impose basic safety measures. State and local governments are cutting services. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. By .

Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram. 246K likes. And President Trump? Lockdown 2.0 Reveals Covid-19 Failures We Must Fix, Jeremy Corbyn Suffers His Own 'Day of Shame', Terror Attacks in France Demand Statesmanship, Not Demagoguery, Hedge Funds' SEC Reporting Loss Is Actually a Win. We've received your submission. 16. If certain businesses — say, the next generation of meat plants — can’t reopen safely and profitably with humans, they can and should do so with robots. We may not like this, we may not like that but let’s see on balance if we can go forward,” Pelosi said. Supplemental federal payments to unemployed workers between April and July kept families from poverty and, as they spent, buoyed the broader economy, too. © 2020 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, And the early winner of the Trump-Biden town hall TV ratings battle is …, Harris-Pence showdown second-most-watched VP debate in TV history, Convention ratings plunge from 2016 spectaculars amid pandemic, Trump's White House coronavirus briefings draw huge ratings, streamed 156.1 billion minutes of content, State cop banished to Canadian border amid relationship with Cuomo's daughter, Kelly Osbourne flaunts 85-pound weight loss at her 36th birthday party. The president’s confusing behavior, moreover, was just a condensed version of the past six months. One study found that recipients spent 40 percent of the money, on average — and households with more income from other sources spent a smaller share. As Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chairman, said in a blunt speech this week, “the risks of overdoing it” are small at the moment. In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, House Democrats, Senate Republicans and the White House moved with alacrity, at least by Washington standards, to pump out hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency aid. I confess I’d prefer a self-cleaning, self-driving car so I don’t have to share space with a human driver, for both our sakes. There is no justification for helping airlines without helping others in need. “The Good Doctor,” ABC, 6.82 million. But the aid Congress provided in the spring was a one-time deal, and state and local governments already have cut roughly 1.5 million workers in anticipation of reduced revenues in coming years.

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