one of the factors driving inflation is this nationwide labor shortage. it continues. take a look at these brand-new job numbers. a mere 128,000 added jobs to the private sector just last month. this is less than half what was expected. it marks the slowest growth since the start of the pandemic. bill: if that doesn t make you feel better this won t, either. gas prices hitting another record high, $4.71 a gallon. we have hit a daily new high almost every day over the past month. sandra: people are feeling it. president biden saying there is no near-term solution to the problem and now the head of a major american bank is forecasting disaster. it is a hurricane. right now it s sunny, things are doing fine. everyone thinks the fed can handle this. that hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way. we just don t know if it s a minor one or super storm sandy. bill: north lawn of the white house, a lot of fires to put out there. jacqui heinrich begins our day.
taken omicron hasn t spread as fast as it would have otherwise done. the president implored people to get vaccinated and boosted saying omicron is spreading and will increase and cases could overwhelming hospitals. the latest business poll shows people are not as concerned about the pandemic as they once were. fifth among top concerns for people behind inflation and higher prices, rising crime, how much people are paying in taxes, even the federal deaf si. people want to move on especially with breakthrough cases happening among people who have followed all of the cdc and white house guidance. new york has some of the highest vaccination rates in the country and businesses have to close for outbreaks. the white house wants to avoid lock downs and school closures and why they are focused on making testing more accessible and getting people vaccinated. a recent kaiser poll only 20% of parents are eager to
rate? that s achievable in washington, d.c. well, it came out of the united states senate as a republican and i saw some bad decisions being made by my former party, especially on bringing back the deficits. when i came into office after president clinton, we had almost full employment, statistical full employment. and then when the deficits came back, we had those big tax cuts that favored the wealthy and then we had the iraq war and then the prescription drug benefit. all these multimillion dollar programs, a big huge almost trillion dollar tax cuts, trillion dollar war in iraq. i think the prescription drug benefit was $800 billion and back came the deaf si. that s what i would say to the federal government. take care of the deficits. fund those programs that work, those social programs that help build the middle class, pell grants, head start, those have a proven record of working, growing the middle class.