This is real money. Tell me whats on your mind, tweet me or hit me up on facebook. The job market came swinging back in september. The economy added 248,000 new jobs last month. That is a big jump from august. Whats more, the Labor Departments figures from this summer got revised upwarded by a cool 69,000. That means on average, america has now added almost 227,000 new jobs to the economy every month this year. Todays report is a pretty good gauge for a recovering economy. President obama, whos come under criticism because of his handling of the economy can rightly claim that things are looking better ahead of the mid term elections in november. Now, i usually tell everyone to ignore the Unemployment Rate and focus instead on the number of jobs added in a given month. Ignore that advice just for a moment. The jobless rate in september fell into its lowest level in more than six years, dipping below 6 for the First Time Since july of 2008. For once, unemployment came down for the right reason, people actually found jobs. Yeah, workers continued leaving the workforce like since the recession but thats not why the rate fell last months. So we can really celebrate this jobless rate drop, over all the last 12 months, the rate has come down 1. 3 Percentage Points to 5. 9 . You can go back to ignoring the Unemployment Rate. The one i dont want you to ignore is wage growth. Average hourly wages ticked down 1 penny to 24. 53. Wages of up 2 , barely beating the current rate of inflation. Normally we see rages rise 3. 5 or 4 a year in a healthy economy. That keeps pace with rising prices and then some. We are not there. Only creating more higher paying jobs will push average wages upwards. In some, we are seeing solid job growth. Thats good, once we also see solid wage growth, well know americas recovery is really on the right track. We have more. Millions of americans who have suffered bouts of unemployment are struggling to regain financial footing even when they find a new job. Thats the conclusion of a recent study by rutgers university. Weve got to category who have come back and were super down sized in terms of what they can afford and their quality of life and quality of their work experience. A co author examined the experiences of the unemployed, the findings of the 30 million americans laid off in the last five years, 20 never found a new job while four in 10 were long term unemployed searching for work for more than seven months before landing a new position. Not everyone landed on their feet, while 33 of workers who found new jobs earned more and 21 the same as before, nearly half failed to recover their former earning power. Most of it is because theyre taking lower quality jobs, reflecting people going back to jobs that pay less than old jobs. As for permanent changes and living standards, a third of americans who suffered chronic unemployment in the last five years reported major and permanent changes to their lifestyle, while one in 10 reported less severe, though permanent down sizing. That dodge is reflected in changing attitudes toward the foundation of the american dream. The to do found four intern americans and more than half of long term unemployed believe hard work and determination do not guarantee success. Aljazeera. Like i said, the jobs report is good news for president obama and his administration. Its the last jobs report before the mid term elections one month from now. Even the president s own labor secretary says the challenge now is to expand opportunity further, help more people benefit from this recovery and enis that your prosperity is broadly shared. These are his words. Joining me to explain how we are going to do this is secretary of labor tom perez. Secretary, good to see you. Always a pleasure to be with you. A lot of the other measures in unemployment didnt shift that much, so we can get down to business. We are talking about in numbers pretty job creation. Most people would admit 227,000 new jobs created a month for the last nine months is good. You and i struggle about what kind of jobs we are talking about, the quality of those jobs. What do we do to increase the wages and the quality. Its important to talk about what jobs are being created. The sector weve seen the biggest growth in the last year is business and professional services. Right. I hear periodically the only jobs created are fast food jobs. Thats categorically inaccurate. 800,000 plus jobs in business and professional services, these are architects, accountants, well paying jobs. The Health Sector has been recession proof. Construction is solid. Were continuing to move in the right direction. Weve had the biggest manufacturing growth since the mid 1990s. Last month was not the best month, but you look at the trend data, manufacturers want to come home and we see that right field in the job data. The nonlabor secretary is a guy who always believed in wage growth. Absolutely. I want to make sure the listeners understand where were at. We have created more jobs in this recovery than europe, japan, and every advanced economy combined. Now the challenge, and by the way, were on pace in the private sector to have the best job growth since 1998, and the key, and i bring up 98, because i think youre listeners and i know i remember, that was an area, an era where we had shared prosperity. We not only had job growth across the board, but it was job growth where the rising tide was lifting all boats. We have a stock market that is up over 30 over the last year and nine months, Housing Price that is continue to go up, and yet we have a big bulk of americans not feeling like theyre participating in this. We are lifting a lot of boats. I was with a guy three days ago who started a job actually wednesday of this week making 60,000 and we helped him train to do that job. There are millions of others in his shoes. At the same time, its undeniable that the biggest challenge is to make sure that the shared prosperity is shared prosperity for everybody. The issue of wage stagnation, its getting the attention now of standard and poor, the attention of the word bank. Bodies that have not historically focused on this, because theres a recognition that the key to success in america and across the world is a thriving middle class. Right. The world bank said the reason that america is the third most competitive country in the world is because of this growing wealth gap, income inequality. You look around the world, i just got back from the g20 labor minister summit. The minimum wage, two examples of where we need to move as a nation, we have the third lowest minimum wage of any member of the oecd nations, third lowest. The u. K. Have increased the minimum wage. There is a recognition that if you want to grow g. D. P. , consumption is 70 . Youve got to put money in peoples packets. Conservatives say give people higher wages and have fewer jobs because businesses are struggling and will employ further people. The evidence belies that, study after study show when you raise the minimum wage, you got a late workforce, you put money in peoples pockets and they spend it. Business owner after Business Owner said tom, what i need more than anything are customers. This is a consumption deprived economy. Heres what i say. Ive run for office at a local level and state level. Voters are smart. People across this country know the following, this president inherited a mess, the worst mess of our lifetime, 2 million jobs were lost in the three months before he took office. Weve now seen 55 consecutive month of private sector job growth, the longest streak on history. We are undeniably better off under the president s leadership and not done. Weve got more work to do. Voters are smart. They understand that elections are about choices, and what we have to do is increase consumption by raising the minimum wage, investing in infrastructure. My friends opt republican side, their proposal is more austerity. Some people want to eliminate the minimum wage. Theyd like to go lower. Ive heard that argument. The market will take care of it, apparently. You cant eat cake and loose weight. I havent figure that had one out. I think voters understand that this was a mess, and the president takes a back seat to no one in his impatience to pick up the pace of growth. What frustrates us is infrastructure, minimum wage have historically been buy bipartisan. Youre name has turned up on a list for consideration for attorney general. You have a civil rights record behind you. Im not going to ask you whether youve been approached or are talking about being the torn general, because i suspect you cant give me that answer. Washed the priorities of the office be . Were going to have a new one. The president and the attorney general have done, i had the great privilege of working with eric holder. He did a great job addressing the issues of National Security and making sure that the j. Was put back in d. O. J. , thats what its all about, making sure justice is not only a sign on the wall, but a value we practice in everything we do as a nation. Mr. Secretary, always a pleasure. Labor secretary tom perez. The numbers teach us about the struggles of those trying to stay in the america middle class. This is you, real stories about real people. A revealing look inside americas middle class is just two minutes away. Forget the jobs numbers for a moment. I want to take you back to tennessee to check in on jodie bolan, the small Business Owner weve tracked as part of our series americas middle class rebuilding the dream. She struggles to keep her business afloat while tackling college costs. Pretty loud sound, julian. What do you think that sound is . Ive had some unexpected expenses come up with julian. He has his license and hes been wanting to drive himself to and from school. When i turn on the a. C. , it gets louder. Im not in a position to get him a car, which id like to be, something safe. Its really making a very loud noise. He says he thinks its a belt, but im not sure. Emergency brakes not working. It wont lock. Theres a couple hundred dollars worth of repairs. I also need the money to add him to my triplea in case anything happens. Also the school is requiring a fee for a parking permit for him to be able to park at the school. Julian loved his surprise birthday gift, and i think that it just meant so much to him that i was able to save and get that gift that he wanted for him of the headphones. Yesterday was just a really nice time for us together. I know that you worked really hard for this, and i really appreciate it. I love you, mom. I love you too, honey. Glad i could do it. I saved and then i was bitting on ebay for a long time. The expenses just keep coming, as hes getting older and theres fees coming up for some testing, s. A. T. Testing, precollege stuff. Yeah, its all coming a little fast at me, and im just really, really need the store to start providing for us. Jodie is currently exploring a new tennessee Scholarship Program offering two free years of Community College to state residents. Her struggle is representative of an american middle class thats still feeling financial pain. That is because the economic recovery remains anemic, according to bill rogers, the professor of public policy. Bill served on president obamas Labor DepartmentTransition Team from november, 2009 to 2010. He also served as the chief economist at the Labor Department from 20002001. He joins me from our new york studios. Good to see you. I want to get past end of the day, everybodys seen the jobs headlines. I want to look at personal consumption growth. Typically after recessions, people feel good, the economy gets better and people start consuming more. Lets go back six or seven recessions now and take a look at the chart of personal consumption growth in recessions and since recession. Tell me what you see here. What has happened is in this current recovery, weve only seen personal consumption grow by i would say just barely. The key point is when you compare to it previous recovers, its similar points in the recovers, this recovery basically comes out looking really, really poor, looking really, really weak. The reason this is so important, consumption by americans makes up 70 of national income. Now, you know, yeah, you see previous reuses, they had actually a contraction in their personal consumption growth, but those recovers are very different. You want to focus on the last two recovers, jobless recovery, but in those the economy at that time was much similar to the economy today. Right. When you do that, that jumps out at you, saying thats partly why youre having the family youre profiling in knoxville is having difficulty, its either a, Unemployment Rates are high in their community and people arent able to consume and buy. That showed wages that are not staying ahead of inflation. Americans pocketbooks are really being constrained. Let me ask you this. What causes consumption growth or the lack of it after a recession . Is it people making more money or a perception of whether or not theyre going to get a job or make more money or the economy is doing well . Its both. Its both. Lets take the hard fact piece. When you have a real Unemployment Rate, today came in at 11. 8 , still higher than prior to the recession. What does that mean . That includes the regular 9 million americans actively search forego a job but also includes what i call the new unemployed, includes two new groups. When you said 11. 8 , most people will wake up and see he a headline that says the Unemployment Rate is 5. 9 , the First Time Since the middle of 2008 that its below 6 . What is this, the red bar . The red bar next to that 5. 9 is what many economists call the real Unemployment Rate, including the regular folks actively searching, but also includes people working part time, but they want to work full time. Why are they only getting part time hours . They may live in a community such as knoxville or parts of california where the local economy, people are still concerned about their having jobs, people are still not seeing wage improvements, and then employers are still nervous about making that person who said part time going to full time. The second part of your question, psychology matters so much. Psychology matters so much. If you look at last months job support, we came in growing, but it was 140,000 new jobs. When you follow that up and look at the Consumer Confidence index, that was published shortly thereafter, Consumer Confidence plum melted. Why . Because people probably saw that headline, jobs up only 140,000 in that month. People got nervous again. Thats what i really enjoy about studying economics. Its not a hard science. We are talking about people, peoples behavior, tuesday. Lets talk about having a Part Time Job because you need it. Its not because we have this flexible lifestyle. The number of people working part time because they need to, the recession, it shot up. We were not 4 million range. This went up to almost 9 million. It has steadily been coming down since then, but its like a new reality. Is this the future of america is going to mean more than double the number of part time workers that we had before the recession . Here i like to be optimistic. I think this is hopefully not a new norm or structure or aspect or future of our economy, but it is troubling that this series, the part time series has fallen slower than the number of unemployed individuals that are captured in the official rate. Whats also tricky in this conversation, too, is that one of the reasons why that number of actual unemployed who are actively searching has fallen, its not necessarily all because theyve gotten jobs. Theres been a lot of discouragement and exit from the labor force. When you combine these two groups and the third group, a group of people who have stopped searching over the last month, but if theyre offered a job would take it, were still at around 18 million americans, who my former boss, the labor secretary used to describe as sort of an untapped, underutilized pool of potential in terms of workforce. Thank you so much for being with us. Bill rogers, former chief economist at the department of labor. The rich doing well, the rest struggle be, a down to the wire election. Its an inside look at brazils upcoming election, next. T. Its not just america where the financial struggles of the american class are a big issue in heated elections. Brazil elects a president when their economy is struggling, putting a strain on tens of millions of brazilians who have risen from poverty and joined the middle class. Ed lookedder of the polls is because of the popularity among poor and middle class voters, but the downturn in brazils economy is raising tough questions about the ability to afford those programs. With a population of almost 200 Million People, brazil is the worlds seventh wealthiest economy, also the Worlds LargestCoffee Producer with the worlds Third Largest producer of civil aircraft behind airbus and bowing. The country misted millions out of poverty. The of People Living on 2 a day has fallen from 21 in 2003 to 11 in 2009. People living in extreme poverty, just 1. 25 a day has fallen from 10 in 2004 to 2. 2 in 2009. Many of those suction says were due to the policies of the countries former president , desilva. Her hand picked successor, brazils first female president leads in the latest polls, despite overseeing a troubled economy. Right before coming into office, a majority of the people of brazil said the economy was in good shape, now say its in bad shape. The dissatisfaction comes after four straight years of economic decline blamed on stagnant Commodity Prices and poor economic policies, which failed to stimulate domestic demand or attract investment. The economy has since slowed, but the g. D. P. Growth rate decline to go 2. 3 in 2013. In the past year, people of brazil have taken total streets to protest rising inflation, corruption and a lack of invest in public services. The countrys 11 billion investment in the world cup is considered to have been an economic failure, and critics charge schools, hospitals and Public Transportation remain chronly underfunded. 72 of the people of brazil are dissatisfied with the way things are going, up from 46 in 2011. We dont usually see that except in countries that experienced a lot of turmoil, such as egypt during the arab spring for countries that have gone through a big cries, which is not the case in brazil, so thats very unusual. Whoever wins the election will be faced with a declining economy whos boom days are long over. Aljazeera. While many working class and middle class brazilians back the president , business and financial leaders hope she loses the election. That is the view of james lack heart smith, an associate director for a global crop. Is the private sector against reelection, as simple as makers versus takers as in the 2012 Romney Campaign . A little bit like that. They can see growth has plummeted and calling for all kinds of reforms, which havent taken place. You have an economy under strain in many ways. I do think that the Market Reaction over recent weeks has been rather exaggerated. Youve seen both the brazilian stock market and currency surging and plunging in response to rumors that it was going lose or poll results saying recession might lose or then win. Theres a market rout going on now in terms of brazil. If she is lee elected again, early next year, you might see some degree of confidence restored and her next government is still going to be negative. I think private sector reaction is exaggerated at the moment. Brazils been an interesting store. Over the last 10 years, they lifted 40 Million People out of poverty and into the middle class, but the economy was growing, the g. D. P. Growth rate was 7. 5 in 2010. This has slowed, growing slower than the u. S. Now. Does it matter who the new president is . Were not getting back up to seven or 7. 5 . No, we are not. It was founded on high commodity crisis and expansion of credit. Its not that the current government has failed to stimulate the domestic demand, it was actually credit suspension. This is an Economic Growth period that was based on consumption, if you look at brazils can assumption, its very, very much out of proportion. It didnt help, i do think we are entering a period of slow growth. Marina silver has promised Macro Economic reforms. Theres a big question morning over whether they will be able to do the structural or micro management for them to do business. Youve come to the end of this boom, with commodities, expansion, credit, they really do need to be reforms of the tax system. Brazil is the most expensive place and most time consuming place to administer your corporate taxes, if youre a company. More so than the United States. Let me ask you this. Is there an obvious answer as to whether marina or delbert is better to solving the problems that brazil needs to solve . I dont think theres an obvious answer. I think marina will probably have a better chance of moving back to, you know, more orthodox Economic Policy makes stances. As i said, around Free Floating Exchange rate, targeting the central bank and tighter fiscal policy. I dont see, i mean, you may have a slight shift toward pragmatism. I think that means another four years of not much changing. Thats going to bring in a period of increased social unrest like we saw in june, 2013. There are two processes going on, the government helping people to move out of part through additional cash transfers and people moving into the middle class through essentially Economic Growth. Those people are clinging on to the bottom runs of the middle class are now under threat over the next four year period. There is a high pace of inflation, affecting living standards. What a great conversation, thank you for being with us. The associate director for latin america at maple crop. Ill take you behind the scenes with the step daughter of the man with ebola reveals how little was done to protect the public. Youll hear a firsthand account from inside the home and inside the emergency room. See you right back here in two minutes. White house officials today tried to reassure the American Public and calm ebola fears following missteps in the handling of the first case diagnosed here in the United States. Officials say they are confident that the u. S. Is well equipped to stop ebola, this as more questions are raised about thomas duncan, who traveled from liberia to texas. He was initially turned away from a dallas hospital. Information that he had recently traveled from liberia wasnt communicated to doctors. He was rushed to the hospital days later where he now remains in serious condition. Four people are quarantined at the apartment complex where he was staying. Local Officials Say the four will be moved to another location. Meantime, authorities in dallas have narrowed focus to 50 people who had direct or indirect contact with duncan. Ten are at high risk and being checked twice a day for symptoms. Among them is his step daughter. She spoke to Aljazeera America correspondent on the condition that she remain off camera. She and other family members who were exposed to duncan sat waiting for over an hour in the emergency room in the first hours after he was admitted to the hospital. So you were waiting in this emergency room for more than an hour . Yes. You and how many other people who had been in contact with your stepdad . I dont know, because i dont really left with the hospital, so i dont know. You all sat there. I went with my daddy, and others. We all were there with duncan. At any time did anyone tell you you should try to stay away from other patients or try not to touch anyone in case you were carrying the virus . No, no, no one tell me that. Were you aware that have as a possible concern . I was not aware of that. No one advised us, so i was not aware. I was just afraid because he came from the hot zone. Do you think there is any chance that god forbid if you had this virus, you could have passed it to anybody . I dont know. Because on t. V. , ive been watching, the only chance is saliva, toilet, blood, i never came near any of that. You must be pretty worried about your kids. Im worried, because my kids went to my mothers house. Im worried about my mom, too. What have they told you about staying here . No one told us to stay in door or not go outside. They just be inside to keep no one gave restrictions to dont go outside or dont move. We just keep ourselves here, tell our children not to go to school. Let me make sure i understand you. No one has come to your house to tell you you have to stay behind this door. No one has come or give me a paper to sign, do not go outside. We are just doing this. No Health Official told you to stay inside this apartment . People from the Dallas County and c. D. C. , they advised that we can stay in with the kids, but my concern with them was so hows about if we run out of food or this . Are we able to run to the fast food place and get some food to eat. The lady said with that im not sure, im going to get back with the boss. The first question, are you guys allowed to go out . We dont know if we are supposed to be going out or not, but to be on the safe side and have precaution, thats how weve been doing it. You dont know whether youre supposed to come out or not, youre just standing behind the door. We just said to our kids not to go to school. We are indoor with the kids, not to go outside. Does that seem strange to you as a nursing assistant . Yes, because we dont want in case we have the virus to spread to other people. This is why im telling my kids we can stay in here and not going out. Is anyone bringing food, anything to keep you guys going . This morning, a lady came here. She asked what we need and then we tell her. She went to the store. We dont have no electricity, our phone, everything is off. After 5 00, well be in the darkness. We dont have light, nothing, we are just stuck in here. Are you hungry right now . We are very hungry. The way the doctors in dallas handled the first ebola patient is ludicrous, according to a microbiologist. He joins me from toronto. Toronto got hit hard by sars in 2003. I remember the learning from all of that. I was very, very surprised at how this was handled in dallas. I imagine they would have picked up the same protocols, canada and United States have the same protocols. It seems not to be the case. Very basic things were missed. I think the panic level has risen because of that. Are authorities ready to handle this . You have all the regulation in place, but if you dont do the proper testing of logistics, and just the mechanics of how this works, something as simple as getting the permit to say transport dangerous good can become a real nightmare. It shows that while the people at the c. D. C. And n. I. Well prepared from a mental perspective, actually making sure that its happening on the ground is entirely another. If you look at Hazardous Materials when people are trying to figure out how to make sure that you dispose of them properly, they do dry runs, trials, tests. We didnt do that. We are seeing a little bit of whats happening in west africa happening in dallas. Everyone can understand why there is so much panic there, even though there is no reason to do it in north america at this point. Heres the issue. Once someone is determined to be suffering from the symptoms of ebola and it is so identified, seems everything goes into lockdown properly the way it should. The issue is in that sun certain time between when somebody gets off a plane or walks into an emergency room, between them and the determination it might be ebola, we seem not to have a standardized approach. You are saying this wouldnt have happened. This guy would not have ended up on a second trip to the hospital. Oh, absolutely. Weve had about 20 case of suspected ebola here in canada, and we follow the same procedure. We dont discriminate by any means. You show up, you came from a place on the medical history that says you may have come in exposed with ebola and you get your own private room. In canada, thats kind of a rare thing. Once youre there, theyre going to do the testing, and if you happen to be negative, then everythings going to be fine. Were waiting now for a case in toronto find out whether or not its positive. If it is positive, which thankfully we havent had, everything does go into lockdown, all the people contacted who may have come in contact with that person and essentially, its shut down. You are not going to see more than two or three cases simply due to the close contacts while the symptoms emerge. Whats happening in the u. S. Is frustrating, to be honest with you. The issue of knowing that you it does appear that this gentleman in dallas may not have told anybody early on that he was in contact with an ebola patient. In canada, again, youre saying the system of contact is such that it would be known if somebody comes in from liberia or a country suffering from ebola. Yeah, what we have is we have a system in place, and this is due to sars where the person from the airline to the pepper sitting on the couch knows whats going on. Even though you happen to lion one segment, theres a redundant as i. It makes no sense to give a patient from liberia antibiotics. Compliance has to be key. Jason, good to talk to you, a microbiologist and author of the germ code. Coming up, the Silicon Valley of the baltics. Ill talk to the president of he estonia about making itself into a high tech hub. Fighting in Eastern Ukraine is flaring up again, prorussian rebels trying to take it is donetsk airport. A government spokesman said rebels broke into a Material National building, but the rest of the airport still under early control. Im not sure how an army works like that, an airport working with two factions are trying to control it. A onemonthold truce was signed by both sides. You a crane accuses russia of backing separatists in ukraine with weapons and soldiers. Russia denies that. The situation raised concerns in nearby baltic countries. Estonia is a former soviet republic that broke from moscow in the early 1990s. Its a high tech hub and small country. Estonias president happened to dabble in computer coding during his teenage years. I asked him about the technological transition estonia has gone through since the end of the cold war. 1993 was actually the first web browser ever, so i mean, people forget that it was only 21 years ago that mosaic came out, and then pushing this and trying to make government more efficient, we started pushing for e governance and that has taken its own path. Part of the education side of this is that well, skype was invented in my country, and skype, while it has been bought and now owned by microsoft, the research and Development Centers still in estonia and there are a whole other start ups doing rather well. There are manifestations of computer late red sox in estonia. You had on line elections. Weve had them six times. It doesnt seem so training to us. Other countries, you go can i trust this. If you have a highly reliable system that you trust for doing all kinds of transactions. And voting is just another safe transaction as far as youre concerned. It has the added benefit that you can do it abroad and get much higher participation from people who happen to be away. Youve got these electronic i. D. Cards that people use to bank, vote, access other service, people pay 94 of the population pays their taxes on line. Is there any reason we cant do that here . You dont have a secure identity. The card is not really the key, the card is that you have a two factor i. D. System. There was a cartoon in the new worker 20 years ago, two dogs, one is in front of the computer and the says to the other that on the internet no one knows youre a dog, that really captures the problem. You need a secure identity on line for any of this to work. Until you do that, you really cant trust being on the internet or safe and secure transactions. We have that, as do a number of other countries. Is it true that president obama sort of i dont know whether seriously or jokingly said we should have gotten you involved in our obamacare localout. He did say that, but i think he was joking. Certainly we have a different system from the United States but at least i would say that in terms of the technical side of things, the u. S. Has followed very closely how we do this, so thats let me talk to you about digital facts about estonia. You can tell me if theyre related to the secure i. D. Card. You can start a company in estonia in 18 minutes, school and medical records are on line. Children as young as seven are taught to program if they want to be. Lots of things can be purchased by text and i heard, read that you can even get wifi in some forests in estonia. Yeah. Are these myths . Those are all true. First couple of things go back to the secure identity. First one dont need a card, you can use the as i am card in your phone. The two factor identification requires a sim card, prommable that is uniquely yourself. Whether its in a card or your phone, its easy if you put a card in your computer, but phone is small. You can do snows things and all of that assumes identity. Thats my mantra. The other thing we have, we have very sophisticated system of connecting, using the secure i. D. And then that allows registering your company in 18 minutes is another law, a once only law, whenever an american hears about them, they go the government may never ask you for any information it already has. We exist on asking you the same information over and over again in america. Right, writing down your address and all that, whatever, hundreds of times a year, you dont do that. When you Register Companies and if you put in the i. D. s of all the people who are in the company, then you can check up on all things, no criminal record within pays his taxes, does all that. You dont have to supply any of that, which is a way to reduce all the hassles of bureaucracy that all of us face or face in other place, but in estonia, weve done away with it. You can catch the rest of my interview this weekend on talk to aljazeera airing saturday at 5 00 p. M. Eastern, 2 00 p. M. Pacific right here on Aljazeera America. Nothing is being done in that building behind me, because thats where congress is supposed to be working. They are offer on the campaign trail. Youll likely not notice. That needs to change and ill tell you whos going to change it. A final message, coming up after this. Coming up right after real money, our special report, five days of fear, escape from isil, the terror and the humanitarian crisis, why fighters joined isil and why they walked away. Fighting ebola, more u. S. Troops heading for africa, plus the latest on whats being done to protect people in the u. S. Tension boils over in hong kong as pro democracy protestors are attacked. Thats coming up, right after real money. Consider this the news of the day plus so much more. We begin with the growing controversy. Answers to the questions no one else will ask. Real perspective, consider this on Al Jazeera America its one of the most heated issues facing america today, deportations of undocumented workers. Washington punted until after the election again. Its not just workers who face problems when undocumented, students do, as well, because they dont have access to help pay for college. Thats one topic on the edge of 18. Heres a look. Paradigm. Since i was 12, ive been trying to get the best grades and test scores i can. Every Film Festival i entered, every festival i won, i thought ive got this, and i didnt. Why . What did i do . Some of our kids who come from a pretty affluent background, their problem may be that they cant fulfill their ambition for one reason or another, but they have the resources to do so if they chose. My parents invested in a private schooling since third grade, all the way up to 12t 12th grade, all with the in tent of getting me into a Top University and they invest add lot of money with this promise that moneys going to pay off, because youre going to get into a really great college. We are not doing enough to make opportunity possible for these children. That i think is one consistent theme. It breaks your heart at times to see kids who are intelligent and motivated and want to make a better life for themselves and their families, and they cant do it. Other kids, theres one kid whos an undocumented woman from arizona. I really need help to pay for my tuition. I am writing you rewarding a personal matter, im looking for someone with the kind of heart who might be able to help fund my education or offer me a loan with reasonable interest rates. Youre undocumented, it doesnt matter. To me, thats kind of upsetting. Actually, its more than upsetting, thats kind of really sad, actually. Senior prom is coming up soon, youve got to purchase your tickets. Im going to be twerking on that dance flower. Were learning to live with new values. Our acceptance of the lbgt community. But for the parents of one of the kids in the show, you know, it still presents enormous challenges. Whos the girl follow you in the front . Her . Who was the girl following you in front . A boy . For me, you no born gay. Dont tell me that story, because i know you. I know you. Dont tell me you born gay. Thats a look at Aljazeera Americas edge of 18, airing sunday. Im here in washington, i need to keep it down so as no to wake congress. No ones there anyway, they left to do what they do best, keep to their own. Despite the polls at all time lows, history shows 90 of incumbents will return to the building behind me. All they need is for you not to show up and vote on november 4. If youre frustrate that had president obama hasnt created quality jobs or hope new blood in congress can do a better job, then vote. Only one third of the voting age population will take the time to do so. So much of what we think isnt working properly in our economy has been broken for a long time. Its been going on for generations. What is different today is its all happening in the face of the absence of real wage growth for so many who are aspiring to join americas middle class or just to stay there. The numbers say the economy is improving, stocks at record who is, the Unemployment Rate below 6 for the First Time Since president obama took office. All the jobs lost on his watch have been recovered and then some. Those numbers feel like a largely inaccurate reflection at what is really happening to americas middle class, because the middle class is no longer participating in the key 10ance of whole building, not earning enough to buy homes. Intelligent Solutions Like investing in americas infrastructure or tackling long promised tax and immigration reform, if it feels congress is not representing your interests, thats probably because 2 3 of you are not interested enough in congress to bother holding them accountable on election day. That is our show for tonight. Thank you for joining us. Have a great weekend. Hi everyone im John Siegenthaler in new york. Tonight, an Al Jazeera America special report. Five days of fear. Escape from i. S. I. L. Thats coming up. But first Randall Pinkston is here with the rest of the dayss news. Thanks john. More deployed to fight the ebola disease in africa. Speaking identity, the ebola