Time as mayor. He represented the eighth ward until the time of his death. Is Memorial Service scheduled to get underway at 11 00 this morning eastern time. We understand that it is running a bit behind schedule. Thel then, discussion on job numbers from washington journal. We are joined by the wall street journal economics reporter. , you talked about the data points beyond the topline numbers. The key one was wage growth. Lets start with that. Guest there was a lot of attention to the headline , 321,000n the report new jobs created. The most significant number in the report is nine. Muchcents, thats how earnings went up. It is twice the average the we have seen per month over the last year. On au look at it yearoveryear basis, it is not as impressive. Increase. Om a 2. 1 economists have been watching for any sign that wages are going to pick up. They have been so slow to grow over this recovery. We have different measures that show that they may be picking up. This is the first time
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It was great to hear from the journalists about their relationship with jim. One of the advantages to having this many press secretaries together is that they agreed to hold a background briefing to go over some of the planning reports in detail. There has been allusions to a glass of water to. I hope the document proves us to be conservative estimates. Everyone has made reference here today about jim and sarahs work when it comes to gun safety and gun violence. Our next two speakers are people who have lived in the trenches on this issue over the last two decades and have made a difference in a terribly difficult and divisive issue. Dan gross is the president of the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence. Before that, he started the center to prevent Youth Violence and has devoted much of his life to the cause. Gail hoffman, who many of you know, was central to putting this event together, has been at this since the late 1980s with handgun control, was the point person for all of us i
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