Of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown 2012 ended with another month of steady but unspectacular job growth. That was the main takeaway from todays numbers out of the labor department. The weeks of will they or wont they go over the fiscal cliff in washington had raised fears that businesses would cut back hiring. Instead, the december jobs report suggests that neither employers nor job seekers were rattled, but that there had also been no big pickup in job growth. The u. S. Economy added 155,000 jobs, slightly down from november, but in line with analysts expectations. Overall, an average of 153,000 jobs were added each month in 2012, roughly the same pace as the year before. And in a sign of growing confidence, more people entered the job market last month. 182,000 americans got into the labor for
Miles, with long hours of snowfall still to come. Fueling the fall, two low pressure systems one from the midwest, the other from the southeast colliding over the northeast and new england. Blizzard warnings were posted in seven states from new jersey on up to maine. At least three declared emergencies, and schools closed in a number of cities. Forecasters predicted new england would get the worst of it with up to three feet of snow likely in boston. Mayor thomas menino. This is a storm of major proportions. Stay off the roads. Stay home. Let the public works crews do their job. Brown the region also braced for winds reaching 75 miles an hour that will pile up drifts and almost guarantee widespread power outages. As ever, the threat prompted shoppers to pack stores, stocking up on supplies. This is panic shopping, so bread, milk, a snow shovel in case our snow shovel breaks. Youve got to plan ahead. A couple feet of snow would shut everything down and, who knows, it could be a couple o
And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown 2012 ended with another month of steady but unspectacular job growth. That was the main takeaway from todays numbers out of the labor department. The weeks of will they or wont they go over the fiscal cliff in washington had raised fears that businesses would cut back hiring. Instead, the december jobs report suggests that neither employers nor job seekers were rattled, but that there had also been no big pickup in job growth. The u. S. Economy added 155,000 jobs, slightly down from november, but in line with analysts expectations. Overall, an average of 153,000 jobs were added each month in 2012, roughly the same pace as the year before. And in a sign of growing confidence, more people entered the job market last month. 182,000 americans got into the labor force. That means that they went out there
The landscape for hundreds of miles, with long hours of snowfall still to come. Fueling the fall, two low pressure systems one from the midwest, the other from the southeast colliding over the northeast and new england. Blizzard warnings were posted in seven states from new jersey on up to maine. At least three declared emergencies, and schools closed in a number of cities. Forecasters predicted new england would get the worst of it with up to three feet of snow likely in boston. Mayor thomas menino. This is a storm of major proportions. Stay off the roads. Stay home. Let the public works crews do their job. Brown the region also braced for winds reaching 75 miles an hour that will pile up drifts and almost guarantee widespread power outages. As ever, the threat prompted shoppers to pack stores, stocking up on supplies. This is panic shopping, so bread, milk, a snow shovel in case our snow shovel breaks. Youve got to plan ahead. A couple feet of snow would shut everything down and, who
A Younger Generation is pushing the bounds of how to appreciate nature with extreme sports. Certainly we have a responsibility to manage for some of these new uses, but as weve seen the activities, it looks like a fire storm. It took off, gained in popularity. Woodruff and its friday, david brooks and e. J. Dionne are here, to analyze the weeks news. Those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this