Economic inequality issues. Why the censorship of this topic . Robert, i hope you are watching. This morning, three hours discussion on class in america. We want to hear from you. We have divided the phone lines by income levels. You can see them. You make 25,000 and under and want to talk about class, income inequality, taxes, 202 5853880 is the number for you to dial. If you make between 26,000 and 50,000 a year, 202 5853881. To 100,000 51,000. Year, 202 5853882 if you may more than 100,000 a year, 202 5853883. Cspanwj. Send a tweet, you can make a comment on facebook. Send an email. From this mornings Financial Times newspaper. Inequality rises despite u. S. Recovery. Recovery and growth failed to turn around one of the defining trends of the modern economy. According to a definitive source of data on inequality, the u. S. Federal reserves survey on finances, median family incomes fell 5 . The boom in the stock market and recovery in house prices fueled gains in the wealth of the ri
Thus, the need to have contract chaplains. Due to the shortage, it is common for the government to employ chaplains via contract. With the Government Shutdown, contact members on the world wide aces are not permitted to work, not even permitted to volunteer, even if they are the only chaplain on base. As my friend from South Carolina mentioned, the research is on basic freedoms being had around here and just within this area, at langley at the navy yard, at ft. Belvoir, these are all areas in which these have artie been cut back, and that is a shame. I am grateful to my colleagues who joined me this morning in the house leadership for their commitment to ensuring that military chaplains are able to serve the men and women of our armed forces. If this body does not pass this legislation, the ability of military personnel will continue to be a great risk. I have my college to join me in protecting the First Amendment rights of those who gave their lives to protect ours. And before i clos
Wanted. It is not the numbers that the democrats in the senate wanted. They wanted 986 billion to run the government for a year. They will not pass that budget. Now we have a situation where we should be negotiating over health care issues, over environmental issues, over other issues because the budget has been passed, but no, they are going to hold the entire country hostage. Consider where our country stands right now. When george w. Bush left office, the dow was at 7900. T is now above 15,000. At the height of the great bush recession, unemployment peaked at 10 . It is now at 7. 3 . Our deficit has been cut in half. We are making progress. We are not there yet. Many americans continue to struggle. S our country climbs back from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Tea Party Republicans are sending america into reverse. The Tea Party Republicans shut down the government. They are putting our economic recovery at risk. They are signaling to the world that america
Change . And titan, ben bradlee, the longtime editor of the Washington Post, has died. And tributes are pouring in for the man who guided the paper through watergate and defined journalism for decades today, wednesday, october 22nd, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im matt lauer, along with hoda kotb. Al roker and Natalie Morales. When you do what we do and ben bradlee was in a room you stopped and took notice. He was that big. And you were probably a little intimidated. There are few giants like that in our industry. No question. Well talk about his life and career in a little while. We want to start on this wednesday morning with our top story, the ebola crisis. A Liberian National is in isolation in newark, new jersey, this morning as doctors wait for ebola results. Meantime, the cameraman working with nbc in liberia when he contracte
Morning with the Economic Data in u. S. At 8 30 a. M. Then a tertiary index and Industrial Production and capacity. On the schedule today for companies, its the first day of the skifor montclair, fashion manufacture, up 41 in its milan trading debut. Draghiesident mario speaks to the parliament this morning. Lets do a data check. Futures are doing better after a challenging week last week. The euro is up after a poor showing end of last week. The twoyear yield is higher. It is a risk on field to the american economy. Chart to get your economic week going. The fed will have an important meeting. Overl sales go way up 2007. Our Industrial Production is way behind . You have different grades of manufacturing like utilities in that ip number but manufacturing is way down from where it was. It is two separate economies. We are buying more stuff from overseas. Stay tuned for our full coverage of the fed meeting tuesday and wednesday. Here is scarlet fu. We talked about a spirit of compromise