so just in moments ago, weekly jobless claims, cnn chief business correspondent christine romans has the numbers. what are they? they ticked up a little bit. these are layoffs, first time unemployment claims in a week. that is still near pandemic levels. numbers you want to see. when you look at the trend, you see the trend is very clearly a tapering off of these layoffs. this is a job market humming along and these numbers pretty much reinforce that. inflation, of course, is the big story. not the job market, the job market is so strong, it might be contributing to inflation in these higher wages that we re seeing across the board. but the inflation story overrun a little bit yesterday by retail sales. retail sales up 3.8% in january. this was a big surprise. this tells you the american
the point they see a clear gesture or language from the president that he is with them as they try to repel russian aggression and take back the territory they have lost. miguel. phil black in ukraine for what may be the very first big issue for the young presidency. thank you very much. let s get an early start on your money. asian markets closed higher. europe markets in the early hours of trading, higher. u.s. futures not moving. the job market humming adding 227,000 jobs. unemployment rate ticked up to 4.8%. more americans are looking for work. president trump appears to be accepting these numbers. 227,000 jobs. great spirit in the country right now. we re very happy about that. very happy about that. remember, president trump ridiculed the numbers for months. falsely claiming the jobless rate is as high as 42%.
capitol hill. where is this money going in the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill? the big ticket item is defense. nearly half of the money, $487 billion goes to the pentagon with another $85 billion for operations overseas. among the other expenses, the education department will get about $160 billion to fund school programs and try to keep the job market humming along as well. also, $5.4 billion of the 6.2 billion the president asked for to fight ebola. thousands of protesters sweeping through the streets of washington at this hour. al sharptone justice for all march to call attention to police brutality against african-americans. the marchers including the families of michael brown, eric garner and others. rick enson is live along the route in washington with the latest. hey, rich. reporter: now reaching its