the thin blue line is getting thinner across america. the justice department reporting today 12,000 police officers will lose their jobs this year, maybe more. it s the first decline in law enforcement jobs in america in 25 years. when president obama sent his american jobs act to congress, it included $35 billion for keeping teachers, cops and firefighters on the job across the country. republicans in the senate blocked the jobs act. although americans overwhelmingly say they want congress to keep cops and firefighters and teachers on the job, when last week president obama put that one super popular p provision into a new smaller bill, the senate rejected it yet again. showing every sign that president obama gets that congress is not going to pass his jobs act either in big chunks or bite-sized pieces, the white house today rolled out a new agenda for trying to help the economy. a new agenda that can get at least some things done without the help of republicans in congress. president
the thin blue line is getting thinner across america. the justice department reporting today 12,000 police officers will lose their jobs this year, maybe more. it s the first decline in law enforcement jobs in america in 25 years. when president obama sent his american jobs act to congress, it included $35 billion for keeping teachers, cops and firefighters on the job across the country. republicans in the senate blocked the jobs act. although americans overwhelmingly say they want congress to keep cops and firefighters and teachers on the job, when last week president obama put that one super popular provision into a new smaller bill, the senate rejected it yet again. showing every sign that president obama gets that congress is not going to pass his jobs act either in big chunks or bite-sized pieces, the white house today rolled out a new agenda for trying to help the economy. a new agenda that can get at least some things done without the help of republicans in congress. president o
today 12,000 police officers will lose their jobs this year, maybe more. it s the first decline in law enforcement jobs in america in 25 years. when president obama sent his american jobs act to congress, it included $35 billion for keeping teachers, cops and firefighters on the job across the country. republicans in the senate blocked the jobs act. although americans overwhelmingly say they want congress to keep cops and firefighters and teachers on the job, when last week president obama put that one super popular provision into a new smaller bill, the senate rejected it yet again. showing every sign that president obama gets that congress is not going to pass his jobs act either in big chunks or bite-sized pieces, the white house today rolled out a new agenda for trying to help the economy. a new agenda that can get at least some things done without the help of republicans in congress. president obama announcing in las vegas today that he d use his authority as president to change t
tracking their own party. that s what makes them conservedems. in this case the calculous is weird. it means tacking to the right of the democrats, yes, which they love to do but means tacking to right of the democrats into what is clearly an electoral no man s land. joining us now is jared bernstein, former member of president obama s economic team, former economic adviser to vice president joe biden and who is now a senior fellow at the center on budget priorities and msnbc contributor. jared, thanks for being here. thank you for inviting me. voters are as close as they get to unanimous. that keeping teachers and firefighters and cops on the job is the right thing to do right now. is there anybody else who is opposed to this along with these republican senators and ben nelson? are economists as a group saying this is a bad idea or something? no, i mean, you can always find some economist to say something bad about anything. overall it s widely recognized that the president s jo
weird. it means tacking to the right of the democrats, yes, which they love to do but means tacking to right of the democrats into what is clearly an electoral no man s land. joining us now is jared bernstein, former member of president obama s economic team, former economic adviser to vice president joe biden and who is now a senior fellow at the center on budget priorities and msnbc contributor. jared, thanks for being here. thank you for inviting me. voters are as close as they get to unanimous. that keeping teachers and firefighters and cops on the job is the right thing to do right now. is there anybody else who is opposed to this along with these republican senators and ben nelson? are economists as a group saying this is a bad idea or something? no, i mean, you can always find some economist to say something bad about anything. overall it s widely recognized that the president s jobs plan in total is what s needed to start nudging the unemployment rate in the right directi