Than a year. More on that in just a moment but first the big story of the day, jobs. The january employment report was strong. Employers hired, wage growth was visible and more people reentered the labor market a sign that many are confident about their job prospects. The economy created 270,000 jobs last month. More than economists expected and in your opinions for november and december were revised sharply higher. The Unemployment Rate rose to 5. 7 . One of the most encouraging numbers may have been the increase in average Hourly Earnings by half a percent. It doesnt sound like much perhaps, but it was the biggest monthly gain in more than six years and all of this positive news has wall street and main street looking to the federal ree a its timetable for hiking rates. Hampton pearson has more. Reporter the robust hiring in january also included the biggest onemonth gain in average Hourly Earnings in six years. To just under 25 an hour. And there were blockbuster revisions boosting
Than a year. More on that in just a moment but first the big story of the day, jobs. The january employment report was strong. Employers hired, wage growth was visible and more people reentered the labor market a sign that many are confident about their job prospects. The economy created 270,000 jobs last month. More than economists expected and in your opinions for november and december were revised sharply higher. The Unemployment Rate rose to 5. 7 . One of the most encouraging numbers may have been the increase in average Hourly Earnings by half a percent. It doesnt sound like much perhaps, but it was the biggest monthly gain in more than six years and all of this positive news has wall street and main street looking to the federal ree a its timetable for hiking rates. Hampton pearson has more. Reporter the robust hiring in january also included the biggest onemonth gain in average Hourly Earnings in six years. To just under 25 an hour. And there were blockbuster revisions boosting
But first the big story of the day, jobs. The january employment report was strong. Employers hired, wage growth was visible and more people reentered the labor market a sign that many are confident about their job prospects. The economy created 270,000 jobs last month. More than economists expected and in your opinions for november and december were revised sharply higher. The Unemployment Rate rose to 5. 7 . One of the most encouraging numbers may have been the increase in average Hourly Earnings by half a percent. It doesnt sound like much perhaps, but it was the biggest monthly gain in more than six years and all of this positive news has wall street and main street looking to the federal ree a its timetable for hiking rates. Hampton pearson has more. Reporter the robust hiring in january also included the biggest onemonth gain in average Hourly Earnings in six years. To just under 25 an hour. And there were blockbuster revisions boosting the jobs numbers for november and december
The meeting will come to order. Good afternoon, everyone. Its monday, november 19, 2012. This is the land use and Economic Development committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors. My name is eric mar, im the chair of the committee. To my left is supervisor scott wiener. Supervisor maly a cohen is absent today. Our clerk is derek evans. Mr. Evans, can you please give us the announcements . Yes. Please make sure all Electronic Devices are off, copies submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on december 4, 2012 San Francisco board of supervisors agenda unless stated. Thank you. We have six items on the agenda today. But ive been notified by supervisor olague, item number 5, she has urged us to continue that to item on the call of the chair. That is the resolution to remove all management proposals and activities derived from the sharp park conceptual restoration alternatives reports alternative a18 from the Environmental Impact report for the San Francisco recrea
Make sha clear and because they are above ground structure and they vent smoke. They may never vent smoke. We may never have a train fire. I prefer that to be the case. But certainly a lot of transit projects and other cities have had problems with vent structures and people, and we have done our best to provide some preliminary designs which we think will get rid of those concerns. Those are good examples. I was just curious, thank you. Director metcalf . I am really glad that we are talking about the extension of the cal train i am hope thating we spend more time as a board on this. I have no concerns whatsoever about ecom or the price. I am concerned about the scope of what is in this and what i know from talking to other people in the community is that the various partners that will be necessary to connect cal train to the transbay terminal do not agree about the alignment. The San Francisco Mayors Office and i am the mayors appointee to this board does not agree with this alignmen