Racial slurs. Celine chandler says shes not surprised. She, too, had roommates bullier in a campus dorm and said the university did little about it. They didnt get physical, but the remarks that were made, racial slurs, i tried to bring it up to the University Housing services, and their response was actually to move me. And they didnt take any action. After a large campus protest yesterday, today a Smaller Group gathered to discuss ways to prevent these types of crimes from happening on campus again. San jose state has frequently described itself as one of the most diverse campuses in america. Just a few weeks ago it crowned its first africanamerican homecoming king, Daniel Harris lucas. He believes thats something that should have happened years ago, and he says despite his own success, black students at san jose state still face tension. The climate for africanamerican students is, are we really supposed to be here. Are we really wanted like weve gotten in but the school has not rea
Join the conversation. This week was full of economic data, the most important of all was the monthly jobs report. 247,000 new jobs was added in october. That is a lot more than predicted. Still a mixed picture because unemployment inched up to 7. 3 . It was 7. 2. More jabs were created, more people dropped out of the labour force. The Labour Participation rate. People who were working dropped to 62 , the lowest in 35 years. I asked labor secretary thomas perez why Labour Force Participation drops. The best remedy to address this is to grow the economy. Thats why the president is talking about investing in road and human capital. Passing immigration reform. As we create the jobs coming from the investments, youll get more people in the workforce. What are you concerned about with respect to sequestration, a number of economists say we have not seen the full effect, and a number of economists saying, we have cut the money out of the budget. Others said wait until the end of the year or
Nuclear program despite initial talks didnt come to an agreement. More talks will occur this month. The Syrian National coalition will attend meetings, but was guarantees that relief will meet all areas, Political Prisoners must be releeld. Their the headlines, real money is up next with ali velshi. All the latest news on the website at aljazeera. Com. Data, the most important of all was the monthly jobs report. 247,000 new jobs was added in october. That is a lot more than predicted. Still a mixed picture because unemployment inched up to 7. 3 . It was 7. 2. More jabs were created, more people dropped out of the force. The Labour Participation rate. People who were working dropped to 62 , the lowest in 35 years. I asked labor secretary thomas perez why Labour Force Participation drops. The best remedy to address this is to grow the economy. Thats why the president is talking about investing in road and human capital. Passing immigration reform. As we create the jobs coming from the in
Assets. What do we know as we look back . We know there was some of the rotation that people were talking about, out of the bond market, into the stock market. If you look at the relative returns of stocks versus bonds, stocks outperforming bonds by the widest margin ever on record. So pay attention. Year, whatto the new sticks out . Still a lot of optimism going into 2014. Not a lot of estimates that returns will be or match the pace we saw this year. Obviously, huge gains in stocks this year. But there is some optimism, especially the signal that the market game with the fed saying it would begin tapering and stocks taking it in stride. The fed, what it was doing, what it was not doing. That was a big theme that affected the dollar and gold. That has been a tricky trade. A huge underperformer this year. Theresioned the stock does not have bears did not have much to hang their hat on, and those lonely gold bugs out there did not have much success either as we did not see the dollar re
John boehner and House Democratic leader nancy pelosi met at the white house yesterday afternoon with the president and Vice President. Heres where things stand right now. The Senate Leaders are meeting aiming to avoid tax hikes. And they may vote on a deal sunday or perhaps on monday. Jessica yellin is our chief white house correspondent. Lisa day jar dayne is on capitol hill. The president used his bully pulpit to reinforce the idea that senators need to get busy. So lets listen. The American People are watching what we do here. Obviously, their patience is already thin. This is deja vu all over again. America wonders why it is that in this town for some reason, you cant get stuff done in an organized timetable, why everything always has to wait till the last minute. Were now at the last minute. And the American People are not going to have any patience for a politically selfinflicted wound to our economy. Not right now. So jessica, you were in the room for the president s remarks. O