higher than it is now. jobs up, wages up, unemployment down that s progress. reporter: but, he is likely now to fall short of the seven million new jobs he promised at the start of the year in the healthcare sector alone, magaret, employment levels will are still down by about 500,000 people since the start of the pandemic. brennan: nancy cordes at the white house tonight. now to some breaking news. guilty verdicts in the varsity blues scandal. two wealthy parents have been convicted of buying their children s way into top colleges by having them pose as athletes. these were the first parents to actually face trial, and they lost. cbs nancy chen reports from boston. reporter: today, a federal jury found john wilson and gamal abdelaziz guilty on all counts, ranging from wire fraud to bribery. they broke the law, and now they face the consequences. reporter: prosecutors say the men paid a combined $1.5
office. and in three months before i got there, that was one tenth what was being created. it s 60,000 as opposed to 6,000 jobs a month. in total, the job creation in the first eight months of my administration is nearly 5 million jobs. jobs up, wages up, unemployment down. that s progress. and it s a tributed to the horde work and resilience of the american people who are battling through this pandemic j working to keep their businesses afloat. remember, today s report is based on a survey that was taken during the week of september 13th. not today. september 13th. when the covid cases were averaging more than 150,000 per day. since then, we ve seen the daily cases fall by more than one-third, and they re continuing to trend down. we re continuing to make progress. right now things in washington as you all know are awfully
long beach, california with the return of some buying limits at some stores due to a supply chain crisis. aishah hasnie at the capitol where congress is now officially raising the debt limit just kicking the can down the road to december. we begin with white house correspondent peter doocy starting us off on the north lawn with what the president is saying about the economy tonight. good evening, period. good evening, bret. the biden plan for the government to try to spend its way out of a jobs crisis might not be working. but officials here are spinning this report as good news because jobs were added and not lost. jobs up, wages up, unemployment down. that s progress. but a miss. 194,000 jobs added short of the 500,000 forecast. i would like to see it faster and we are going to make it faster. the president still sees a silver lining. for the first time since march of 2020, the american unemployment rate is below 5%.
an odd reluctance for some american workers to get back at it. the administration is blaming the pandemic, a number of things. the reasons for this, why people have not gone back to take jobs. critics say vaccine mandates are a factor here and the unemployment benefits are hurting. the president made brief remarks on the report. he left the room, didn t take any questions on the economy or the report. he insists progress is being made. jobs up, wages up, unemployment down. that s progress. martha: here now, andy puzder from cke restaurants and author of time to let america work again. mollie hemmingway from the federalist and a fox news contributor. great to have you with us. andy, obviously the president is going to try to put this in the
jobs created by that bill are going to go to men. meanwhile we ve had the greatest loss of jobs by women in the labor market since 1988. we have got to recognize that part of lifting these jobs up requires us to lift jobs up for women as well and that is why the second part is so important. making sure that we have parental leave, that we have child care that is going to be available to everyone and no more than 7% of your income is going to be subject to being used to pay for that child care, that we restore the 120,000 jobs that have been lost by child care workers who have gone on to other jobs because they couldn t make it on $11 an hour. so it s got to be a package over the long term. the plan had long been at least for a matter of months now that those two pieces of legislation that you are talking about would essentially be