After Daily White House press briefing, the chairman of the counsel of economic advisers discussed the september jobs report, and how the Government Shutdown affected the u. S. Economy. Thank you, jay. This morning we found out the economy added 148,000 jobs in the month of september. The Unemployment Rate ticked down to 7. 2 , and those are both part of the steady threeyear trend of job creation and reduction in the Unemployment Rate. Theres no question, though, that that pace of job creation is below what we can be fully satisfied with, and that the conversation wed like to be having is a conversation about how to add to jobs. Instead what we did in october was selfinflicted wound that will subtract from jobs when we eventually learn the jobs number for october. Normally, economists love jobs day, the most recent, fresh look at the jobs in the economy, but this was delayeded by several weeks, and as a result covers data from september, which was before the significant changes that ha
Do you think harry reid has promised a vote on Unemployment Insurance harry reid has promised a vote on Unemployment Insurance. Does that become part of the debt ceiling debate and should it . That ist should, but not what republicans have in mind as a ransom. Democrats are really adamant about it. Many feel they gave up the best opportunity. Remember, when unemployment has remained this high at seven percent when we have had this extent of longterm unemployment, we have always had extensionsion an of the federal program. See congressd to not act on this. Getink we conceivably could the support to override a filibuster in the senate. It ifn boehner could pass you brought it to the floor, but it will be very tough getting him to do so. Guest there is a larger element to this. The budget deal used all of the socalled low hanging fruit of raising revenues without calling them taxes. There is only one thing left, and it has been used all couple times. We always fall back on it, revenue fro
These need to be addressed. It will take a lot of time and effort on tribes and others to get it done. A cannot afford to have lengthy, cumbersome process. We cannot get this done. If we cannot get our infrastructure in place, it is going to have this. There are a lot of these daytoday issues that they need to go after. I am sure they will. Thank you for being here. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] a former transportation Inspector General will talk about the distant hands of militia Malaysian Airline flight 370. She offers her insights from vladimir putin. We will take your calls and you can join the call. Cspan, created by american and brought as a Television Service provider. Joining us is the university of oklahoma. Welcome. Today marks the threeyear anniversary since the uprising in syria. He wanted to get your sense on not only reminding viewers of what happened to start the uprising but also where we
It was earlier this week that president obama announced that he wants to see changes that would expand the number of workers who can receive overtime pay. Some say the move will cause job losses. What do you think about the proposal to expand overtime echo you can weigh in on one of three lines. Social media available to you as well. You can tweak us or send us your thoughts on facebook. Or send ustweet us your thoughts on facebook. This edition at the white house. President Obama Meeting in front of workers, especially those who are managers, to talk about the topic of overtime pay. Heres a bit of what he had to say about the addition. Directing my secretary of labor to restore the commonsense principle behind overtime. Toyou go above and beyond help your employer and your economy succeed, you should share a little bit in that success. This will make a real difference in the lives of millions of americans from managers and fast food retail to office workers, cargo inspectors we will d
Situation in ukraine. Par chen co has some form of legitimacy but him being able to put together a policy to bring together the various segments of ukrainian of the ukrainian and get a National Consensus which is needed in particular to undertake the very difficult Economic Reforms i think we are going to have to wait and see. It is too much early to declare this crisis over and certainly much too early for washington, brussels, or the government in can i ever to have victory. We include with cartoonist roz chast. Cant we talk about something more pleasant. One of the main reasons i write and draw is because i am so afraid if i dont it is all going to be forgotten, you know, and it does feel that way sometimes if i dont draw it, if i dont write it down. Life and people. Yes. Just everything, just everything. Time just kind of goes on like that. Ruthlessly. Ruthlessly. And i wrote this and drew this to remember my parents, really. A look at ukraine and a conversation with roz chast when