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Port Of LA Becomes First Ever In Western Hemisphere To Handle 1+ Million Containers In One Month
The Port of Los Angeles announced Tuesday that it had earned the distinction as the first port in the Western Hemisphere to handle more than 1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in a single month. May was the busiest month in the 114-year history of the United States’ busiest port. The Port of LA moved a total of 1,012,248 TEUs, up 74% from May 2020, when COVID-19 had stalled global trade.
The Port of Long Beach and South Carolina Ports Authority last week also reported record Mays. And the Georgia Ports Authority announced it had had 10 consecutive months of growth and turned in its second-busiest month ever. One “most” figure that sticks out in the Port of LA’s May numbers: “Empty containers climbed to 366,448 TEUs, a jump of 114% compared to last year due to the heavy demand in Asia. It was the most empties ever processed in a month at the port,” Tuesday’s announcement said. At the neighboring Port of Long Beach, the volume of empty containers in May was up 80.7% year-over-year to 327,135 TEUs.
The Port of LA also handled the most imports ever in a single month in May. Loaded imports, up 75% year-over-year, totaled 535,714 TEUs, surpassing the August 2020 record of 516,286 TEUs. May loaded exports, which have been running flat, were up 5.3% year-over-year to 109,886 TEUs. “But our trade gap has widened now to 4.9-to-1. That’s the widest import-to-export gap that we have seen in our time,” Port of LA Executive Director Gene Seroka said in a recorded statement. Seroka said this week’s announcement comes on the heels of a celebration last week marking the handling of the record-setting 10 millionth container in a 12-month period. The port’s fiscal year ends June 30.
For the first five months of the calendar year, overall cargo volume totaled 4,451,445 TEUs, an increase of 48.2% compared to the same period in 2020.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/port-la-becomes-first-ever-western-hemisphere-handle-1-million-containers-one-month
Louisiana becomes first Democratic-run state to end $300-a-week unemployment benefits
Louisiana to end $300-a-week unemployment benefits on July 31
Louisiana became the first Democratic-run state to drop out of a federal unemployment program that provided out-of-work Americans with an extra $300 a week in aid. Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday signed a bill terminating the federal pandemic unemployment programs on July 31 in exchange for raising the state's weekly maximum jobless benefit to $275, beginning in 2022.
Louisiana joins 25 other states, all led by Republican governors, that will prematurely end the supplemental unemployment benefits, a move they contend will help businesses that are struggling to hire employees. It will also opt out of two separate programs, which provided jobless benefits to gig workers and others typically not eligible for benefits and extended state unemployment benefits once they have been exhausted.
The programs – which were established in March 2020 and twice extended by Congress – are not slated to expire until Sept. 6, 2021.
There remain about 7.4 million fewer jobs than there were in February 2020, before the pandemic shut down broad swaths of the nation's economy. Louisiana's unemployment rate, at 7.3%, represents about 150,000 jobless Americans out of a workforce of about 2 million.Unemployment benefits in the state currently max out at $247 a week. With the federal supplement, Americans are receiving a maximum of $547 in weekly unemployment benefits. (For comparison's sake, that's about $28,000 annually, or nearly double the nation's minimum wage.)
President Biden and Democrats have rejected the notion that Americans are choosing to stay home and collect the extra unemployment benefits – part of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief law passed in March – rather than returning to work.
Still, Biden has emphasized that the unemployment benefits will end in September as planned, despite momentum among some of his party's members to make the extra money permanent.
"It’s going to expire in 90 days," Biden said recently. "That makes sense." Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming will also end at least one of the three pandemic unemployment programs sometime over the summer.
Some 16 million Americans are poised to lose their unemployment benefits earlier than expected, according to one estimate published by the Century Foundation.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/louisiana-opts-out-federal-unemployment-benefits
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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, husband of VP Kamala Harris, coming to Alabama
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, will be in Alabama this week.
Emhoff will travel to Birmingham on Thursday. Details of the visit have not been announced.
The trip is part of the Biden administration’s nationwide tour to encourage coronavirus vaccinations.
As part of the same effort, Vice President Kamala Harris visited South Carolina on Monday and will travel to Atlanta Friday. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan will be in North Carolina this week as well.
https://www.al.com/news/2021/06/second-gentleman-doug-emhoff-husband-of-vp-kamala-harris-coming-to-alabama.html
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Kamala Harris to visit Atlanta on Friday
According to officials, the vice president plans to highlight how easy it is to get the vaccine. Harris will also "mobilize education efforts" to reach Georgians who have yet to receive either the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccines. Harris is set to visit Greenville, South Carolina the following Monday.
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/vice-president-kamala-harris-to-visit-atlanta/85-0bf6d740-88da-4139-9213-2442511e4eb1