How Many People In The United States? | April 28, 2021

[Music] hi i m carl azuz with your 10 minute explanation of what's going on in the world today's show is all about numbers the shrinking number of restaurant workers the crazy numbers of lumber prices but we're going to start with this one 331 million 440 that's the number of people living in the united states according to the 2020 census the u.s constitution in article 1 section 2 says that an enumeration a count of america's people should be carried out every 10 years and that this is how the number of representatives in the u s house is determined there are 435 voting members in that chamber of congress the constitution says each state gets at least one but most states have significantly more than that the bigger their population the more representatives they have in the house because americans commonly move around it's not unusual for some states to lose house seats while others gain them and there will be changes in store for the years ahead here's cnn census acting director dr ron s jarman six states will gain seats in the house of representatives texas will gain two seats and colorado florida montana north carolina and oregon will each gain one seat seven states will each lose one seat in the house california illinois michigan new york ohio pennsylvania and west virginia political analysts say the changes benefit republicans more than democrats and though democrats control the house now the majority they have in order to do that is a slim one democrats hold 218 seats republicans hold 212 seats there are five vacancies the entire house of representatives is up for election every two years with 2022 being the next vote if americans were to vote in that election in a similar way to how they voted in the last one it's possible republicans could take control of the house based on the changes from the u.s census count of course that won't be the only factor the house makeup often flips back and forth especially in a president's first term but it's one reason why the census is significant to the u.s government up next help wanted after coronavirus entered america restaurants were some of the hardest hit businesses during the mandatory shutdowns of last year the national restaurant association says that as of last december more than a hundred and ten thousand places to eat and drink had been shut down either temporarily or permanently in 2020 five and a half million jobs were lost from march to april alone today some of those jobs are coming back and restrictions on indoor dining are being lifted if they haven't been already but many of the restaurants that survived are facing a new challenge they can't find workers we have a war of survival a new war of survival philippe massoud never thought he'd be facing a shortage of restaurant workers in the middle of the pandemic we have no staff to open for lunch at all nearly 10 million americans are out of work but massoud can't find anyone to fill his 15 open positions from manager to dishwasher normally you get at least 30 40 50 people 60 people we only had three people respond to our ads and none of them showed up in january seven percent of restaurant operators named recruitment and retention as their top challenge by march that number was 25 percent one issue some employees have left the restaurant industry for good like john jasnecki who quit in january after 16 years as a server and bartender i had intended on being a lifer but with unstable pay and after contracting covid19 he knew it was time for a career change covett was very stressful yelling at people to put on their masks is not what i want to do every day jazzinecki now works in maintenance for several high rises in downtown denver it's a different world working nine to five as opposed to five to two restaurants in miami have been at 100 percent indoor capacity since october of last year but carlos gazi tua says he doesn't have enough staff to open his dining room florida is a bellwether state we are we've been open a lot longer than many states in the united states so this is a coming to the theater near you and he says it's only getting worse he can't fill more than 30 percent of his positions even after raising wages he says the 300 dollar weekly expanded unemployment benefit is stopping people from coming back to work people should keep the unemployment benefits if they go to work now and they commit to working to the end of the year the expanded unemployment benefits don't expire until early september we're supposed to go hire people to retain them but at the same time you're paying on employment it creates a conflict of interest so to speak right so for four months what is the plan lose more money and do what we can to stay open vanessa urkavic cnn new york how much wood would a woodchuck chuck homebuilders and new home buyers probably don't care they just wish the animal would chuck more of it there's a national shortage of lumber in the u.s and it's selling at its highest rate since 2006. why the american business magazine fortune says it's supply and demand last year lumber producers were temporarily shut down because of coronavirus concerns at the same time people working from home decided to buy more wood for projects around the house so lumber started disappearing from stores like home depot another factor interest rates for home loans started hitting record lows last year so people flooded the housing market because their dollar went further all of this resulted in very short supplies of wood while there was tremendous demand for it so lumber prices went through the roof hitting record highs that drove up the cost of building houses it drove up the cost of buying new houses so when will this end nobody knows some experts say prices will start to settle this summer others say will be in 2022 before lumber prices come back down ten-second trivia which of these events was not part of the first modern olympics in 1896 tennis fencing shooting or tug of war tug of war was an olympic event but not until the second olympic games in 1900 [Music] a lot of olympic sports have been added since 1896 at that time there were 10 different games played by the 241 athletes in attendance this time around 44 sports are listed for the 11 000 athletes expected after a year-long delay the 2020 tokyo summer games are set to kick off on july 23rd with the paralympics following on august 24th fans from other countries will not be allowed people who bought tickets already are getting their money back for some of the athletes test events are now underway we're at the tokyo aquatic center one of the venues which will be used for the olympic and paralympic games with less than three months to go before the start of the olympics this is one of the first test events being held since the games were postponed more than a year ago test events like this serve as a dress rehearsal for olympic organizers an opportunity to work out the kinks ahead of the games in this case only a limited number of japanese athletes are participating here in the mix zone only 12 journalists are allowed in at any time as a result because of kovan 19 this virtual setup is one option being considered to allow equal access to athletes when it comes to anti-virus measures its clear olympic organizers are still figuring things out this is the media room inside the aquatic center where social distancing doesn't seem to be an option while it hasn't been decided this is what the tokyo olympic and paralympic games could look like empty arenas with no fans and athletes competing to the sound of music which does help mask the silence despite a fourth wave of infection growing in tokyo being placed under its third state of emergency order olympic organizers and the japanese government remain committed to holding the games as scheduled this summer blake essig cnn tokyo late last year in southwest kansas a mother took her two daughters christmas wish lists attached them to a balloon and let them go they never made it to the north pole but one of them did float more than 500 miles away to northwest louisiana where a deer hunter found the balloon and the wish list through the magic of social media and with the help of family and friends the men not only returned the list he got the girls almost everything on it and that included a puppy which he and his wife drove to deliver themselves it was like a visit from luizi's santa claus and we bet the puppies left some gifts of his own around the house who would have thought that a christmas craft could have blown up like that ballooning into a national news story it's the kind of thing that's easy to get carried away with even when there are strings attached and it proves that christmas wishes are not just full of hot air i m carl azuz today's shout out takes us to eastern africa where we're thrilled to be part of your day at the international school of kenya that's a wrap for cnn

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Published: Tue Apr 27 2021