pieces of legislation that fixes the healthcare issues in the united states. then address the tort reform issue that we have, all the uns in defensive medicine that take place. and address healthcare insurance premiums and one at a time so the american people can be in the debate not as a big comprehensive republican bill. what will you do about the people who, under your theory, are either poor or at minimum wage or can t pay for healthcare for whatever reason? we have the situation out there today. and some of them will remain to get insurance under their employer, for example. and there will always be those who slip through the cracks. what do we do about them? first we want to address those who we can get insured and that s going to be the employment side of this. there s about 47 million uninsured americans according to the numbers from democrats.
pieces of legislation that fixes the healthcare issues in the united states. then address the tort reform issue that we have, all the uns in defensive medicine that take place. and address healthcare insurance premiums and one at a time so the american people can be in the debate not as a big comprehensive republican bill. what will you do about the people who, under your theory, are either poor or at minimum wage or can t pay for healthcare for whatever reason? we have the situation out there today. and some of them will remain to get insurance under their employer, for example. and there will always be those who slip through the cracks. what do we do about them? first we want to address those who we can get insured and that s going to be the employment side of this. there s about 47 million uninsured americans according to the numbers from democrats.
technology, frankly, is one of the reasons why there are fewer manual labor jobs or working class jobs in the united states because companies have been aggressively purchasing and utilizing technology for years now in order to become more efficient, i.e., in order to need fewer people. but the plus side of it from an employment side is technology as an industry is a continually growing industry where there are jobs. our directors are can throw up a full screen. another one we want to touch on is professional services. it s a catchall for some administrative assistants, some this, some that. that is more of a it s not as clear a category as the others. it means there s a need for some people to help out in business. the article in the magazine says it will take a long time before we see these rates go back to normal. right. how long? i don t think anybody ben bernanke was on saying that he thought it would be four or five
as actual important issues in their lives and lamar smith who has been a big bomb thrower will not hold hearings on birth right citizenship or anything like that. he will focus on jobs and focus on the enforcement of employment side, you know, hiring illegal immigrants which is something that has a broad mandate, i think. these guys are very aware of this sort of sense that they could overstep and they re going to try to avoid that. going to be interesting to watch. ben, jeff, elise, thank you. we have all this break noog news going on. that standoff on hollywood boulevard in california and police say they have taken that murder suspect into custody. there was a woman in her 20s who was shot earlier today right by that walk of fame. he had barricaded himself in an apartment, the suspect. but they have him in custody w now. nobody was hurt in the end of
basically it extends for 13 months this is the employment side of things, emergency federal jobless benefits. it doesn t mean if you had 79 or 99 weeks of benefits you get another 13 months. it extends the availability of those emergency federal benefits for another 13 months. if you ve run out of benefits, you don t get more, but more people can get it as a result of this extension. this is something the democrats want. see that 4.2%? this is a one-year break in the payroll tax which funds social security. normally you pay 6.2% of your income on your paycheck. it s going to go down to 4.2% for the next year, that s for everybody that pays into social security. the tax on estates would be restored, but only on the big ones over there, that are worth more than $5 million. that s the major hangup in the house. some house democrats want to higher tax on smaller assets.