market changed a lot. you had federal muffin poring in. people were trying to a federal money pouring in. they gave them tenure as a perk. paul: so this became job recruitment. right. now the labor market is so tight it s impossible to get a job. so we don t need it as a perk. but what gets the headlines are the ward churchill of the world. this academic year we had a guy doing sex demonstration, jay michael bailey at northwestern. holocaust deniers that got to keep job because of tenure. ward churchill is a gift that keeps on giving. you have now a situation where it s not the radicals who worry me as much as the lazy, incompetent and the merely distracted. paul: tenure track as i understood it, rewards research, professors who do research. they have to write academic papers, original papers,
paul: welcome to the the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. more bad news for the fragile economic recovery this week. as the unemployment rate rose to 9.1%. employers hired only 54,000 new workers in may. the fewest in eight months. home prices also fell for the eighth straight month. to levels last seen in 2002. and retail sales slowed in may. as consumers struggling with higher gas and food prices spent less on discretionary items like clothing and home goods. joining the panel, wall street journal assistant editorial page editor james freeman. washington columnist kim strassel. senior economics writer steve moore. so steve, how do you read these numbers this week? which were uniformly bad. are we heading into maybe a double dip? first of all, you look at the employment numbers and we need to create three times as many jobs just to keep the unemployment rate where it is. these were really glum numbers. by the way, they re reflected in almost every other
short list of suspects in the attacks, but still looking for leads, the fbi launched this website, and put up a series of electronic bill boards last week, from rural virginia to times square, asking for help from the public to solve the crimes. it apparently worked. ultimately, the bill doos board and the media campaign led to a detailed tip that helped to crack this case. reporter: for years, detectives had dna linking a dozen of the assaults, but no idea who that dna belonged to. after the tip, u.s. marshals tracked down thomas. and when he tossed a cigarette into the street last week, they had their sample. when the dna matched, they had their suspect. dna was collected in and subsequently matched by the state forensic sciences lab, confirming that thomas was the east coast rapist. reporter: just hours after his arrest, thomas reportedly tried to hang himself in his connecticut jail cell. during his first hearing this morning, neither he nor his court-appointed at
a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west, and we begin with big news from the white house this morning. the president s chief of staff says the administration could make a rare move to help knock down rising gas prices. just this morning nbc s david gregory asked whether the white house would consider tapping the strategic oil reserves to help ease the pain at the pump. the issue of the reserves is one we re considering. it is something that only is done has been done in very rare occasions. there s a bunch of factors that have to be looked at. but it s on the table, which i think is a significant development. well, all matters have to be on the able when you go through when you see the difficulty coming out of this economic crisis we re in and the fragilety of it. mike viqueira, good sunday morning tourks mike. good morning, alex. so what all would go into a decision like that? reporter: well, you know, there are millions of gallons of oil underneath the
annapolis this afternoon and will have more on this development coming up on news 4 at 5:00 as we mentioned off the top, picket lines are creating patients today at washington honest center, where nurses have gone on a one-day strike. they say they re standing up for patient care. the hospital says the battle is over pay. megan mcgrath has a look now at how the hospital is operating today. reporter: nurses on strike at the washington hospital center. more than 100 walked the picket line this morning. they say staffing levels are not high enough, they want enough nurses to take care of our patients safely, and a seasoned group of nurses. reporter: but hospital officials say staff levels have gone up. and it isn t about safety, it s about money. now! reporter: as for operations at the hospital, hundreds of contract nurses have been brought in. all are licensed in the district of columbia. there are no delays. folks are able to get in and out of the hospital. we h