we need to put real meaningful bipartisan action on the economy. mike viqueira is live at the white house this morning. jared bernstein is a contributor for cnbc and msnbc and the former economist for vice president joe biden. ryan, i want to start with you. let s talk about the big numbers here. we ve seen the market reaction. what do today s numbers mean for the average american? well, you know, i hate to say it. they re unequivocally bad. there was very little good news in this report. average hours worked were down. the goose egg, we have not seen that on a monthly report since 1945. clearly, this was not the worst job report we ve seen. what it means is that the economy may at some experts on wall street are saying has hit stall speed, that we re at the risk of rolling over into another recession. we saw that in the manufacturing data this week. we re seeing it in the employment numbers this morning. we are at risk for much lower growth than anybody hoped for this ti
. . our focus is one measure passed yesterday and signed into law by the president. don t ask, don t tell. our question is, will it change the military? send us an email or on line at twit twitter this morning, the piece is called a changing tide. you can read it on line. it will be historic when the president ask signed the don t ask don t tell bill. it will be a mile stone for civil rights. this may be the brown v. board of education for gay rights we ll let you listen in on some of the debate from the senate floor we covered yesterday. on the republican line. good morning. caller: to equate this with a race of people or culture is an a bomb ination. it shows you the generation of people that have been raised in the talk show age. i worked many years ago in a ministry called teen challenge after i had been involved for years in a drug addicted and homosexual lifestyle that would have destroyed me before i was 30. homosexual at has a predatory and transtorry nature t
kasich from ohio, rick snyder from michigan and scott walker from wisconsin. all three talked about the issue of public employee compensation. . . do something about it. i think public employee unions are more on the defense s the defense of that i can recall in long time.a host: what does the president s overall job approval rating tell you? guest: there has not been much movement for many months. he is somewhere between 45% and 50%. in some polls he is slightly more positive than negative. he is not where the worst of our present have been in terms of public opinion. he will want to try to move that up. host: 71% of americans have been hurt by th recession. guest: there was an interesting finding in t nbc wall street in b.c. the wall street journal paul. nbc- the wall street journal poll. the question was asked, what was your defining moment many peopl said 9/11. this time, more people said that it was the recession. but the people out of work, it was a terrible po
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