Retail also saw more hiring and manufacturing ticked up as well. White house chief economist alan krueger. I think if you look at todays report and some of the other indicators that have been coming in Unemployment Insurance claims, i. S. M. Numbers, auto sales. We see a picture of an economy thats continuing to recover. Suarez the days other big number was the Unemployment Rate, which dropped to 7. 7 . That was the lowest in four years. The main reason was that more people found work, but some 130,000 others number stopped looking for work, so they were no longer counted. Overall, the official number of unemployed now sits at just over 12 million americans. It hasnt been that low since december of 2008. Also of comes despite higher payroll taxes and despite uncertainty in the runup to those acrosstheboard federal spending cuts that kicked in, as of march first. Overall, it was the best jobs report since 2009. To help us look at developments big and small behind the numbers, we turn to
By a housing rebound. Retail also saw more hiring and manufacturing ticked up as well. White house chief economist alan krueger. I think if you look at todays report and some of the other indicators that have been coming in Unemployment Insurance claims, i. S. M. Numbers, auto sales. We see a picture of an economy thats continuing to recover. Suarez the days other big number was the Unemployment Rate, which dropped to 7. 7 . That was the lowest in four years. The main reason was that more people found work, but some 130,000 others number stopped looking for work, so they were no longer counted. Overall, the official number of unemployed now sits at just over 12 million americans. It hasnt been that low since december of 2008. Also of comes despite higher payroll taxes and despite uncertainty in the runup to those acrosstheboard federal spending cuts that kicked in, as of march first. Overall, it was the best jobs report since 2009. To help us look at developments big and small behind t
The skills they need to do the jobs . Number three, how do we make sure that once they have a job, it leads to a decent living . I believe we reward the effort and determination with wages that allow working families to raise their kids and get ahead. [cheers and applause] that part of the reason why i said last night that its time for and increase in the minimum wage, because if you work full time, you should not be in poverty. Host at was the president. From the hill newspaper this morning we want to hear from you this morning whether or not you support the president s call to raise the minimum wage from 7. 25 an hour, the federal minimum wage, to 9 an hour. If you support the proposal, 3880 is the extension to call. You can go ahead and start dialing in. We will take those calls in a minute. Back to this article in the Old Newspaper the hill newspaper. We begin with a call on the support line. Reggie in west orange, new jersey. What you think about the president s proposal . Caller
Is the narrowest in a generation and it came as protesters descended on capitol hill. Donald trump praised kavanaugh before heading to a rally tonight in kansas. He will be a great justice of the Supreme Court. People have thought that for ten years. They thought hes just an extraordinary person, a great, great talent. And i think hes going to make us all very proud. Trump tweeted that kavanaugh will officially be sworn in tonight though not in public. Instead it will be done by chief Justice John Roberts and retired Justice Anthony kennedy in a private ceremony. The nomination of brett m. Kavanaugh of maryland to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is confirmed. But first lets look at the protests under way right outside the u. S. Supreme court. Kavanaugh is inside. Mike viqueira is there. Tell us what youre seeing. Reporter its an extraordinary moment. I dont know what else to say. The day was petering out, the crowd was thinning out. Had been a crowd do
Acres making of the deadliest in history. Apparently republicans are uneducated, that comment from a newly elected democrat. Most of the tennesseans who voted republican are uneducated. Controversial Christmas Gift. They released a Building Block set encouraging children to build the wall. People singing this morning. Pete the movie i saw over the weekend, bohemian rhapsody. It was very interesting. I found it fascinating. It made me long for the era when bands matter, people followed bands like they followed sports teams and we dont do that anymore. Rob instead of just singing to attract they saying the words. Brian back to 25 minutes where they said might have been the best 25 minutes any band ever performed live. We use to write see thes, you need the whole thing, now you just download one song. Brian where the day is. Pete thank you for joining us. Foxbusiness alert. Overnight, 356 migrants from that caravan arriving in tijuana by tween 9 different buses and a number of them climbe