remember this, and you ve heard me say it a lot, african-american unemployment, think of it, african-american unemployment just reached the lowest level ever recorded. huh? right? right? after years of democrats failing and abandoning african-americans, republicans are delivering for african-americans like never before. so nina, is he taking credit for something he doesn t deserve for job growths? should they be thanking president obama? oh, absolutely. definitely thanking president obama. none of this all happens under one president. it takes years and years and years to do this kind of thing. but you know, don, another point to this is also the quality of jobs. i mean, we have a president and a republican party that has balanced the budget off of the backs of the working poor and middle class of this country
unemployment just reached the lowest level ever recorded. huh? right? right? after years of democrats failing and abandoning african-americans, republicans are delivering for african-americans like never before. so nina, is he taking credit for something he doesn t deserve for job growths? should they be thanking president obama? oh, absolutely. definitely thanking president obama. none of this all happens under one president. it takes years and years and years to do this kind of thing. but you know, don, another point to this is also the quality of jobs. i mean, we have a president and a republican party that has balanced the budget off of the backs of the working poor and middle class of this country with all of the tax breaks, starving government, starving the services that people need to thrive in this country. so it s not just a one dimensional variable here.
that we re going in the right direction? well i think 2014 was as good as it was going get. also in 2014 we had zero productivity growth in the private sector. that s observed. they know how to use them and do that year after year and as the demand grows they will be using up some of that slack. it s silly to think that you can grow it go and a half percent a year and have two and a half percent job growths. we just don t function that way. i don t think that jer red thinks that we function that way. it s seeing the slower job growth for next year. i think the key point here is that and we probably all agree that while things are improving we re not at full employment yet. there s slack in the labor and
starting point begins right now. welcome back, everybody. new details in the shocking suicide of football star junior se seau. the l.a. times is reporting his family has decided to donate his brain in order to determine if he had chronic traumatic ense encephalopathy. the report says the former linebacker s death was a suicide. doctors are unsure whether seau s hard hits on the field let to cte, that dementia like brain disease caused by tough brain injuries that many football players face, someone who is an expert on that is dr. sanjay gupta, studying the topic for years. this morning we hear that seau s ex-wife and friends, even though he was not well-known as someone who had a number of concussions they are saying we had concussions. and also saying something we heard a lot talking to nfl players, he probably wasn t vocal about him, even tried to hide them under this culture of look i m going to play hurt and not only that but if i tell people about the fact i m hurt
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