For that, he brought about 15 workers back with plans to rehire about 10 more, he said. With only outdoor dining allowed in the city, he said he could not yet predict when he would call back more workers to reopen the other restaurants. "If all things were perfect, all these people would still be working for us, " he said. "These are tough decisions we have to make, " Mr. Rosen added. Without the usual influx of tourists this summer, the city will continue to lose jobs into the fall, and possibly well beyond, some economists said. The city's Independent Budget Office projects employment will continue to decline until early next year, said its director, Ronnie Lowenstein. "The situation here is so much worse than it has been elsewhere that I think New York City residents are going to be facing an extended period of what we're facing now, " Ms. Lowenstein said.
A senior backer of the shadow Brexit secretary said he would be unlikely to install Ms Long-Bailey in the crucial post of shadow chancellor as she lacks 'experience'. However, the MP played down the prospect that Sir Keir would purge Corbynistas from his team, insisting there would be 'space for people from all sides'. The signals emerged as Ms Long-Bailey - the hard-Left's favoured candidate - formally launches her campaign with a swipe at Sir Keir. The shadow business secretary will say she wants to end the 'gentlemen's' club at Westminster. Sir Keir is the only remaining man in the contest. Ms Long-Bailey was boosted yesterday when she was endorsed by the Momentum group. A senior backer of shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer (pictured) said he would be unlikely to install Rebecca Long-Bailey in the crucial post of shadow chancellor The signals emerged as Ms Long-Bailey (pictured during the election campaign) formally launches her campaign with a swipe at Sir Keir She and Sir Keir currently appear to be the favourites, with shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry - who is also kicking off her campaign today - Wigan MP Lisa Nandy and Birmingham Yardley's Jess Phillips making up the rest of the field.
September Dawn Bottoms/The New York Times Mr. Fitzpatrick said he put most of his staff on furlough when the city was locked down in mid-March. Then, when he received a payroll-protection loan from the federal government in April, he rehired most of them, as Congress envisioned when it approved the program's creation. But in June, with no resumption of tourism on the horizon, he had to lay them off again, he said. Fitzpatrick closed one of his hotels and has kept a small crew operating the other one, near Grand Central Terminal. A second-generation hotel operator, Mr. Fitzpatrick has struggled to hold his business and his staff together. He started tearing up as he described how disappointed his late father would have been to learn that a business bearing the family name had shut down. With Broadway theaters dark through the end of the year and spectators barred from the U. S. Open tennis tournament, he said, "We don't see any pickup at all until September at the earliest. " By then, he said, not all of his competitors will have survived.
U. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, one of the key negotiators behind the agreement, lauded its passage, stating the agreement is expected to create up to 589, 000 U. jobs and spur additional economic growth. "House passage of the USMCA with such huge bipartisan support is a major milestone and shows just how much President Trump is successfully changing U. trade policy so it works for the benefit of American workers, farmers, ranchers and businesses, " said Lighthizer. "The USMCA is expected to create between 176, 000 and 589, 000 new American jobs and substantially increase economic growth. The International Trade Commission's analysis shows that USMCA will have a more positive impact on our economy, jobs and wages than any other U. trade agreement ever negotiated. " Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), ranking Republican on the House Ways and Committee, also praised the development, while hitting Democrats for diverting attention away from USMCA to focus on their partisan impeachment effort.
This afternoon I stopped by the desk of Sharon LaFraniere, who has written about Ms. Yovanovitch, to discuss why the former ambassador to Ukraine was so intent on speaking out. Sharon, how unusual was her participation? And how unusual was her testimony? She testified despite a White House declaration that there would be no more cooperation with Congress. She's acting in defiance of the White House. Her testimony today was a really damning indictment of how the Trump administration is conducting foreign policy. She warned against people who in search of personal gain or private influence undermined the work of American government officials and threatened the policy goals of the United States. And on top of all that, she said the State Department is being hollowed out from within, because diplomats don't feel the government has their back. What does she know that House Democrats want to know? She seemed to suggest that businesspeople who are allies of Rudy Giuliani may have orchestrated this campaign to get her out for their own private gain.
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