Was the Unemployment Rate for African Americans when Obama Took Office . What is it now . What has the Democratic Party done to help since then . Also, you are telling me that the Unemployed People that we have in this country are too damn dumb to do the jobs that are being required. We need an educated foreigners coming into this country to do the jobs that dumb Unemployed People are too stupid to do today. I do not understand your theory of thought. Guest i cannot quote the exact Unemployment Rate. I think it was about 16 and maybe at 9 now. This goes back to my bigger point how things are phrased. If you look at a lot of the work that undocumented immigrants are doing. When it comes to dishwashers in restaurants, migrant farmworkers literally these are jobs that people in this country do not want to do. It is not a question of smartness, dominance, anything like that it is just too is willing to do the jobs. People are not coming here just to hang out. Theyre coming to work so that
Which is to say colleges, this year in particular, are starting to see buyer resistance. People are thinking very hard about whether they really want to spend 50,000, 60,000 a year and up. Everytime people fine out what the tuition is, its like, i cant believe how expensive it is. Theyre not seeing that as a good buy. Especially if its financed by debt. Right now a lot of colleges are dealing with this price discrimination thats what Financial Aid is, they figure out how much you can pay and thats the price for you because i like you. Thats what is going on. Youre seeing some schools actually having a Credit Rating downgraded bid moodies because they look at their Business Model and doesnt see it sustainable. Enrollments are dropping, and within colleges youre seeing Humanities Departments done New York Times has a piece on this recently. The Humanities Department losing their majors majors and enrolles because people dont want to major in the humanities because theyre concerned about
The face of very tight and unusually tight fiscal policy for this period. It has been effect it, but the it has been effective but the precisesize of the impact is something that we can very reasonably disagree about and we can and work will continue. The uncertainty of the impact and the effects of ending programs and so on, one of the reasons we have treated this as a supplementary rather than as a primary tool. Don lee l. A. Times. Unemployment benefits are expiring shortly for millions of people. How much of an Economic Impact do you see that having . What effect would you expect that would have on the Unemployment Rate . If those people drop out of the labor force, will that not the Unemployment Rate down quite a bit . Yes, obviously it has a big economic effect on those directly affected who are receiving benefits. We do have an unusually large number of longterm, Unemployed People in the u. S. It is a major concern and one that i cited in my opening remarks. The effects of exten
Eugene steuerle argues recent budget decisions have hampered the ability policymakers to solve many of todays problems. He says education, Public Welfare and housing policies are affected the most. This hour and 10 Minute Program starts now on booktv. Well, welcome. Im in a shaker dusky. Im a senior fellow here at the Humphrey School and faculty director of the public not private leadership center. We are happy to host this event today. What we are going to do is have a presentation by dr. Steuerle, some comments by a senior fellow here at the Humphrey School, our [roll call] and then some questions from you and some answers from dr. Steuerle. So let me introduce dr. Steuerle. See eugene starley mr. Richard b. Chair at the urban institute and a columnist for the government we deserve. Yesterday said the assistant secretary for tax analysis, president of the national tax association, chair of the 1999 Technical Panel at rising Social Security and its methods and assumptions. Economic co
Host larry kudlow, will you be writing a book about your time in the Trump Administration . Larry i dont have anything planned at the moment. Im very busy, im loving life. Never say never, but not at the moment, i dont. Host how may jobs do you have . How many jobs do you have . Larry theres a foxbusiness show every day, if i could plug that, 4 00 to 5 00 p. M. Thats the bulk of what i do. I do a lot of different segments for ftm and fox news. I did one this morning on fox and friends. I do a radio show every saturday morning for three hours. A National Radio show. That runs here on wabc radio. We are livestreamed and syndicated. And i also do i write oped pieces to much constantly. Some informal Political Consulting with my friends on policy. Pretty much anybody who asks. So i am a busy camper. Im a grateful camper. Life after the white house has been terrific. Its a real blessing. Host this is your second stint in the white house. The first being . Larry just a few years ago 40 years