the economic angle today. reporter: welcome to this setting we found in kansas city. just to my right is smith electric. it s a police that makes electric batteries for large delivery trucks. your coco cola, pepsi truck, cable trucks, those kind of electric batteries are now supported by the recovery act. president obama is going to come here and talk about how the initial infusion of stimulus cash plus the investment that initial investment leveraged created jobs in a green economy. he s going to have a fund-raiser. to put those jobless claim numbers in context, yes they h-r down 21,000 from the previous week but the rolling four-week average is still about 466,000 initial jobless claims, that is the highest, martha since march of this year and to some degree statistically undercut the president s message that the economy is recovering solidly