with the lead to block access to more than 40,000 documents collected during the independent review. it also says that the nfl misled the public about its findings and has not stopped true accountability for those responsible. and nfl spokes men yesterday defended the league s cooperation with the house probe, as well as his commitment to ensuring a professional work environment for employees. the district of columbia last month filed a civil suit accusing the commanders, snyder, and nfl conditioner roger, belle of colluding to deceive fans about the inquiry. the commanders are in the playoff hunt for with a record of 75 and one. let s turn now to major league baseball, and the biggest signing yesterday. the center field are brandon who will return as a member of the new york mets. the outfielder has apparently agreed to a contract or $862 million. he is a pretty good player, that is a lot of money.
and meantime, let s talk about what s being called the sugar bailout, the government might have to step in to prop up stumbling sugar prices and that could cost us more if we want our sugar fix and we all do. we all do. absolutely. let me give you a background here. the department of agriculture is enough for 142 billion hershey kisses. it s in the name of trying to prevent a way of default for processors who have borrowed $862 million under a government support program and now you ve got u.s. sugar prices that have fallen 18% since the loans began in october. and this could leave the program with about an $80 million loss which is the biggest in 30 years and i guess what it also means as prices go up, higher prices for us to get that sugar fix, as you say. cnbc s mandy drury, thank
fire prone batteries putting them one step closer to getting the 787 back in the air. the fleet was grounded following two batteries that caught fire in january. host yes, sir agreed to sell who who is, twinkies to a parent company of pabst blue ribbon beer for $410 million. they hope to have the snacks back on shelves this summer. speaking of sweets, is big sugaring about to get a bailout in the wall street journal reports the department of agriculture is considering buying 400,000 tons of sugaring to stave off a wave of defaults to processors who borrowed $862 million under a government support program. google will pay $7 million to settle a 38-state case over its street view cars collecting data from unsecured wi-fi networks. new research predicts shipments of tablets running google s android system will overtake the ipad for the first
creating 262,000 jobs a month and not 200,000 jobs. to get back to where we were when the president took office, we have to have 1.4 million net new jobs created to get to where we were before the recession began. 5.8 million jobs created. you know, there was virtually no change in the amount of time that people were unemployed in the latest one, about 40 weeks that people were on. an unemployed. and these are okay numbers, but they re anemic and they re certainly not what the president promised us when we passed the stimulus bill, 862 million of pork spending and left us with 13 million americans out of work. there s incidentally, an excellent if people want to track this, hamilton policies studies, excuse me, strategies, has a nice little sheet you can get going to the website that tracks the recovery and the picture it paints is, by matt mcdonald is not one of a robust, this does not match
we re going to have to be creating 262,000 jobs a month and not 200,000 jobs. to get back to where we were when the president took office, we have to have 1.4 million net new jobs created to get to where we were before the recession began. 5.8 million jobs created. you know, there was virtually no change in the amount of time that people were unemployed in the latest one, about 40 weeks that people were on. an unemployed. and these are okay numbers, but they re anemic and they re certainly not what the president promised us when we passed the stimulus bill, 862 million of pork spending and left us with 13 million americans out of work. there s incidentally, an excellent if people want to track this, hamilton policies studies, excuse me, strategies, has a nice little sheet you can get going to the website that tracks the recovery and the picture it paints is, by matt mcdonald is not one of a