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One of the world's most successful companies, Amazon, has announced it is set to hire 75,000 new employees in the US and Canada. This is against a backdrop of surprisingly weak job numbers. One of the factors preventing people returning to the workplace in the United States is childcare with many children still not going to school. We hear from the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten. Financial incentives are being offered in the US to boost flagging coronavirus vaccine take-up rates, including free entry to a $1m lottery in Ohio, but will it work? We hear from Dr Kevin Schulman, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Tesla founder Elon Musk says the car maker will no longer accept Bitcoin for car purchases. We get reaction to the news from Olinga Ta'eed, an adviser to the Chinese government on digital currency, and director of the UK-based Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance. Plus we're joined throughout the programme by journalist, Paddy Hirsch, in LA and in Malaysia, finance professional, Jessica Khine. (Picture of Amazon package via Ronny Hartmann for Getty Images).