ram ramie manu rahm emanuel took charge of change. that s a quick look at the headline. i ve got to say the five years between the election and the inauguration gave him time to prepare for the tasks ahead. that. that was a long gap, wasn t it. michal len has a look at the play book. hello, mike. good morning, guys. so you re writing about tommy thompson this morning. got an exclusive on the 2012 senate run. wh what s he up to? there s an open senate seat. the democrat said he wasn t going to run for a fifth term brks u we know who is running. tommy thompson, who was president bush s first hhs secretary who s the long-time governor of wisconsin. he s been talking to friends about staffing, raising money, and plans in the next couple of days to get in. now, he s holding off because there s no way he would run
manufacturing up 10,000 after earring of losing jobs in manufacturing in the last year, we ve seen some gains in that area. so that s good news brks u not as good as some would have liked. like i said, the unemployment rate has dropped to 9.4% from 9.8%. but there are a bunch of people who aren t part of the labor force and that s why the number can be a little misleading. this is the first yearly growth since 1997 i m sorry 2007. let me show you what some of these this is how these years have looked. in 2005 these were the total jobs we gained. more than 2.5 million. 2007, we re at a little over a million. 2008, look at those jobs that were hoft as the recession set in. 2009 was even worse. 2010 we ended up gaining jobs. there are some estimates next year we ll gain 2.5 million
we ve had this huge industrial service boon, you know, since world war ii, and that helped everybody get ahead. we sort of got the idea that it should come naturally. that s what s changing. people are going to have to work for it, the bar for success is higher brks u that doesn t mean you can t get this. thank you. the wife of the man believed to have been murdered in mexico is speaking out.