family visas an instead open up immigration maybe more to the employment side to help businesses who need to hire low-skilled and high-skilled workers and want to add more high and low skilled visas but take them away from family. time film. senator lindsey graham says the next couple of weeks, will we see that happen? will things heat up? absolutely. they promise as early as this week but there s concerns among some of the senators it might be moving fast and still not completely agreed on every point but i think it could drag into the next week or two before we actually see this bill. the president s watching closely and promised to have a bill as early as this month and said he ll step in if the senators can t produce it. thank you. sure. here s some other news going on around america. arizona serve and rescuer lifted a 50-year-old canadian woman to safety after she spent
now, in terms of the uptick in unemployment, that s actually a function of the fact that more people were in the labor market looking for work. that s actually a good sign. an improving job market appears to be pulling more people in and in fact many of those folks got jobs. the share of americans employed, the employment rate, not the unemployment rate but the employment side of that equation, actually ticked up a bit as well. so generally a report showing some positive momentum in the job market. and real unemployment, jared, 14.6% is the number we re hearing? does that appreciatably dim the picture? well, that s a number that has been considerably elevated. that includes about 8 million people who are the vernacular calls involuntary part-timers. meaning people who would rather have full-time work but can t find as many hours as they want. that remains a tough issue in the economy. but even that rate is down relative to where it was in prior months. so again, i think the key iss
are legit? you have to know something about the bureau of labor statistics. this is an institution with incredible statistical integrity in how they collect, analyze and report the data. this is an absolutely ludicrous claim. we shouldn t give it any oxygen. in fact, half the people who are saying they don t believe the numbers then start citing bls numbers to show other point they want to make. this agency has been reporting these data for decades. the security that goes around. i ve been writing about this on my blog today to see the details about how they make sure there s no political bias in here. it s absolutely the case that any statistical measure has sampling error and they re straightforward about that. listen, to get back to the numbers and i agree with peter on the point that the numbers do exhibit some volatility month-to-month. the household survey was quite flat on the employment side for a number of months and it made
i have seen the constructive criticism and i accept that. as far as i how i attempt to run the senate, i do the best i can. under very difficult circumstances. republicans worry the circumstances won t be any better after the election, so they are pushing for action on an issue now affecting the national security. they are also calling on the senate to take up a bipartisan house bill they passed today to essentially pressure the administration to reveal the plan. bret? bret: mike emanuel on the hill. thank you. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke say his board effort helped lift the economy out of a great recession. but told a house committee today the economy remains weak and the fed can only do so much. well, at this point we don t see a double dip recession. we see continued moderate growth but we are committed to ensuring or doing all we can to ensure we continue to make progress on employment side.
thinking we ve beat this thing on employment side. we haven t. you have to let business alone and let them create the jobs, government interference doesn t work, never will. are you talking about the are you talking about those businesses that are sitting on record amounts of profits that are cutting people, and laying people off? are you talking about those businesses, possible? they have got great jobs and the highest tax rates in the world. highest tax rates in the world and those are the ones i m talking about and guess what, they ve still found out a way how to make money and still drive the economy and even though we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world, they re winning. and they re wearing people, like, that s what we re finding out. because the demand came from the stimulus, thank you very much. gary b. respond. if mike thinks that 15% unemployment rate is a great thing, yes, to mike s point we