retailers, fast-food restaurants and other traditional employers that hire young people are now hiring experienced adults for those jobs because overall the employment market is so titan experienced adults are competing for that kind of work. look at another way. when teens went looking for work this summer in june and july, they had record low success. only 39% of the white teens were able to find work when they went looking. only 26.7% of hispanic 16 to 19-year-olds were able to find work. among african-americans, it was worse, only 19% got hired. it s a bleak picture for teens and raises questions about the future preparedness for the workforce. job training and college can help. more graduates end up living at home in the room they grew up in on their parents couches. it is rough for them, alisyn. alisyn: that is terrible numbers. having a job as a teenager is a critical life experience. let s hope the turnarounds reporter: put as damper on barbecues this labor day. alisyn: it
anybody has to talk about. the ornish, i can t remember who wrote this, but a good column but somebody saying this is the new way for people who used to say, i don t like this, i don t want this around me, now to say where political correctness is, this is what you have to say. that column was written by john lavigne of slate. it s why do you put it in my face? it might be ignorant maybe if you said a few things to people who said that. they would say, oh, yeah, i never thought that. there s a huge difference between the de facto assumption of the heterosexual world but what i heard mike say speaks to demographics. he s in his 60s. he s uncomfortable with it. i don t think we should jump down the throats of people who express honestly being uncomfortable with it. the average age of the nba is 26.7. i think that s why we see a lot of nba players saying, don t
difficult. we saw a demonstration today, retirees marching on the ministry of health. they have to pay for doctors appointments something the state covered and for medication. they describe the description as tragic and there will be further cuts ahead of this week s ecb meeting. in spain unemployment has gone up again. it is up to 26.7%, that is the highest in the euro zone. people are quite desperate and we are seeing a lot ofds coming over here to the uk to look for work, martha. martha: how are things in britain. reporter: in britain we ve had this cabinet shakeup because people are concerned and the governor, the prime minister that not enough is being done to deal with the economy. a lot of fiscal conservatives have been brought into the new government. we got some figures today that showed retail down on last august, which was not what we expected, given the boost for the olympic games here, the chancellor was booed when he went out to the par olympic field to handout awards.
the big debate here, the romney campaign is trying to figure out how they can best go about uniting the party, uniting conservatives and not antagonizing them further. a lot of developments with conservatives trying to get behind santorum or newt gingrich, very close to mr. romney in the polls. romney campaign recognizes that a win in south carolina could be decisive, it could drive nails in the coffin of other candidates. to get there, six more days of very tough attacks from the rivals that s what the romney campaign is preparing for with tomorrow s debate and this riddle of how do they get conservatives to get behind his candidacy. according to the latest poll romney is at 26.7%, gingrich 22%. that s pretty can he make it up? reporter: it is. he s right on his heels. newt gingrich has done so scratching back, being very aggressive attacking romney going after romney s record as
for coming to a pro-life position on the basis of information. that is what the pro-life movement is all about. reporter: very pew people believe mitt romney is a true social conservative but, if you can convince people not so much to vote against him as for him, he may be able to hang onto the lead he has here. patti ann: that s the big question, can he accomplish that? and what are those latest polls saying? reporter: well, look at a new one, a public policy poll, shows the race tighter than it was before, mitt romney, had been up over 30% and now down to 29, with newt gingrich, nipping at his heels, 24%. ron paul next at 15 and rick santorum, at 14% and the real clear politics average shows the race is about the same. 26.7%, for mitt romney, and 22% for newt gingrich and santorum and paul tied at 14.7%. on the campaign trail, in the