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White House adviser Ivanka Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross discussed the future of online training for workers and students at the American Workforce Policy Advisory Group's first meeting since the coronavirus crisis started.

Pier 1, which operates about 541 stores in the U.S., said in a statement that it intends to sell its inventory and remaining assets, including its intellectual property and e-commerce business, through a court-supervised process.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has been critical of the Trump administration lately.

Pichai said the company could see 60 percent of its employees coming in "once a week, or something like that."

While unemployment in the U.S. had dropped from a peak of 10 percent during the 2008 financial crisis to a 50-year low of 3.5 percent, economists say wage growth failed to keep pace.

The only way to cauterize the unemployment blood bath Cuban said, is for the federal government to intervene as it did during the Great Depression.