cnn s chief national correspondent john king is the host of john king usa which airs every weeknight at 7:00 p.m. eastern. john, here s the jobs picture. 9.6% unemployment, 14.8 million people want a job and can t find one. nearly 42% of those out of work, they ve been unemployed for six months or longer. are democrats going to pay the price for so many americans still being out of work, john? in a word, christine, yes. and it gets even more painful. if you take a map of that unemployment and overlay it where the most competitive in the battleground races are this year. nevada has the highest unemployment in the country. if you go state by state, the senate majority leader harry reid is in trouble in that race and that s one of the reasons why, high unemployment. look at california, a democratic state where republicans have a chance for governor and senate because it too has high double-digit unemployment. the rust belt in the middle of the country is a place where republ
king usa which airs every weeknight at 7:00 p.m. eastern. john, here s the jobs picture. 9.6% unemployment, 14.8 million people want a job and can t find one. nearly 42% of those out of work, they ve been unemployed for six months or longer. are democrats going to pay the price for so many americans still being out of work, john? in a word, christine, yes. and it gets even more painful. if you take a map of that unemployment and overlay it where the most competitive in the battleground races are this year. nevada has the highest unemployment in the country. state by state, harry reid is in trouble in that race and that s one of the reasons why, high unemployment. look at california, a democratic state where republicans have a chance for governor and senate because it too has high double-digit unemployment. the rust belt in the middle of the country is a place where republicans think they can pick up huge gains when it comes to knocking off vulnerable house democrats and pi
and description of the job seemed pretty undefined, right?? so how do you do the job as described to us? i m sure she asked the same question. i don t know how you do the job and she s got a number of opportunities. we ve seen her life and followed it since all of this blew up. she is the perfect advocate for discrimination and race relations. you and i could talk about race and all of that for hours. forever. live from studio 7 and cnn world headquarters, the big stories for tuesday, august 24th, fired for out of context remarks on race, today shirley sherrod gets her one on one with the u.s. agriculture secretary and says no to a new job. incumbent republican senators fighting challengers. on the far right today, it is primary day for voters in arizona, alaska and three other states, and a spark for the economy? toyota is hiring in mississippi. a new corolla assembly plant is going on line after a two-year recession delay. it couldn t have come at a better time for
off. 11 weeks after israel attacked an aid boat, israel and palestine appear headed for new peace talks. our cnn hero of the week, he is building bridges in kenya in more ways than one. i feel good when i see people walking over my bridges. i feel good because people s lives are being transformed. they are being saved. communities are being transformed. i m tony harris. those stories and your comments right here right now in the cnn newsroom. so let s do this. let s begin with the latest on jobs. the recovery can t come fast enough for the 14.5 million americans who don t have one but instead of filing new claims for benefits have jumped for three straight weeks. the labor department says first-time claims surged to the half million mark last week. democrats are pushing for a new jobs bill. when congress reconvenes, this jobs bill will be the first business out of the gate, and the senate republican leadership needs to stop its efforts to block it. let s put aside
starts and permits for future building. some big changes taking effect today will impact your beb dis and atm cards. more details including what you need to know on that in just a moment several retail giants will report their earnings this week and they include home depot, target and walmart. let s get to it right now. the rules, the new ones taking effect concerning your debit and atm cards and those details on what this means from your personal finance expert carmen wong ullrich. good morning. good morning, alex. what is different under the new rules. what s different in the past, when all of us got checking accounts we were automatically given overdraft fees overdraft privileges let s say. the fees come later. swipe it and not enough money in the account. now existing customers as of today have to opt in to getting overdraft protection and if you haven t already, you can always do that but this was the deadline to opt in if you re an existing customer. in july if you we