here we go. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, it is monday, october 24th. i m christine romans. we begin with the midterm elections now just 15 days away. early voting already under way with more than 5.8 million ballots cast in 39 states. right now polls and political spending suggests republicans are surging and stand a good chance of retaking the house of representatives with a solid majority. recent surveys show the reason for that surge, the economy. inflation and to a lesser degree crime. early this summer looked like the anger at the supreme court ruling overturning roe versus wade would give democrats a chance to hold back the red tide and keep control of the house. now it looks like that abortion-fueled momentum may have peaked too soon. they have to split their messaging between abortion and the economy are the democrats. nobody said we re doing abortion rather than economy.
ocd and anxiety at shepherd pratt. thank you for being here. you reached out to me. you sent this article to me and you talked about what you re seeing in the clinic there. before i talk about, we talk about what you re seeing firsthand, let s talk about these recommendations. these recommendations apply to children who don t already have a diagnosed mental health condition and you are not showing recognized symptoms of anxiety or depression. what does that say to you? it doesn t come as a huge surprise when you think about it. in 2019, the cdc was saying that there are 5.8 million children with anxiety. that s before the pandemic. so we know that anxiety, everybody s anxiety has risen since then. i know mine has. i m a specialist in these conditions. we re looking at the fact that children who go undiagnosed and untreated for disorders are likely to develop more severe anxiety disorder or related
have been added to the economy. the unemployment rate crept up two tenths of a, point 2.7%, which was in fact protected by experts. friday s job report was welcome news after a very rough month for the stock market. we are bracing for an even rockier months ahead. because september is historically the worst year for stocks overtime. not to mention there are millions more jobs that need to be filled, and the cost of goods is still quite high because of inflation. joining me now to dig into the good the bad in the ugly of this economic news. investigators other-in-chief caleb silver. good morning, caleb. start us off with the good news. you said. it the labor market continues to be strong, ally, despite worries about a recession. despite worries when economic slowdown. we have added 5.8 million jobs this year, the average of something like 420,000 jobs a month. that is extremely strong. many of the workforce have fully recovered, all the jobs lost during the pandemic. when we just get
after about two years of overheated, feverish markets in which we saw historically low interest rates, we saw the government provide fiscal stimulus, paychecks to people to help them get through the pandemic. americans by and large sought refuge into housing. we are seeing the transition away from this towards a more normal period. however, in this transitionary period, we still labor under real estate markets which have seen tremendous shortage. we started this year with about 5.8 million single family homes short and haven t built our way out of it. builders have had their own challenges so we ve been underbuilding for over a decade and a half and that keeps pressure on prices. moreover, homeowners are still in many cases pricing based on that from three, four, six months ago. wow. so that explains how we got here. so now how much longer is this going to go on? so what we re seeing with the
well one of most popular place is without doubt here in florida we saw population increase by 211,000 between july 2, 02 and july 2021. and by way it is not just people moving. of the 5.8 million new businesses in application between january 21st and 22 stunning 12% were right here in florida. now with these numbers, it is no wonder that florida governor is way up in the polls in reelection race and nation wide he building profile impressive fund raising operation. with all of the over all of things we just talked about liberal governors with ambitions for national office have denied including that walking pile of higher gel new some. he defeated recall effort his state realing from high crime, under performing schools. flood aliens and water shoejs