PA State Rep. Torren Ecker On Hiring Difficulties For Pennsylvania Businesses
Pennsylvania Representative Torren Ecker joins the Dom Giordano Program to discuss a meeting that took place yesterday in Harrisburg featuring lawmakers debating how to solve the hiring crisis playing out for businesses across the state of Pennsylvania. First, Ecker tells us a little bit about himself, explaining that he's headquartered in the heart of Adams County, in South Central PA. Then, circling back to the meeting, Ecker explains his thoughts on the general situation, pointing toward the extended unemployment benefits as the main culprit. When asked about the Left's solution of raisinig the minimum wage rather than eliminating the benefit, Ecker notes that local businesses are offering up to 17 or 18 dollars an hour to incentivize employment, so raising the minimum wage to $15 would do nothing to solve the cause. Then, Giordano and Ecker discuss the new work search requirements set forth by the Wolf administration, which means people receiving unemployment benefits must apply for two jobs and complete one work-search activity from an approved list options each week, such as attending a job fair or taking a pre-employment test.
Breitbart's Alex Marlow On New Book, Breaking The News
Alex Marlow, Editor-in-Chief for Breitbart News, joins the Dom Giordano Program to discuss his newly released book, Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. In the new book, Marlow explains how the establishment press destroyed its own credibility with a relentless stream of "fake news" designed to smear Donald Trump and his supporters while advancing a leftist agenda. Giordano asks Marlow about a nugget from the book that really stood out to him, that being information on a 'new Soros,' Laurene Powell Jobs, who has a big hand in controlling media rhetoric. Marlow tells that Jobs, wife of late Apple head Steve Jobs, has very cleverly come up with a way to fund the press, funding 'activist press' which Marlow further explains, and by purchasing media properties such as The Atlantic and Axios. Also, Marlow discusses the relationship between media corporations and China, discussing comments made by wrestler and actor John Cena, who apologized in Mandarin for calling Taiwan a country.
