Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions woodruff employers added 155,000 new jobs in december, while the nations Unemployment Rate remained unchanged at 7. 8 . Good evening. Im judy woodruff. Brown and im jeffrey brown. On the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the final 2012 jobs report, and get a picture of the Economic Forecast in different regions of the country. Woodruff then, we talk to npr reporter deborah amos about the devastation in syria as the death toll in the twoyear civil war climbs to over 60,000. Brown special correspondent john tulenko examines ohios retention rule for schools finish third grade being able to read or be held back. Up until third grade youre learning to read, after third grade youre reading to learn. But if you arent well equipped, reading pro fish eptly at the end of trd grade you will struggle throughout the rest of your school years woodruff ray suarez looks at the firestorm of criticism leveled against some of the front runners for
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions woodruff employers added 155,000 new jobs in december, while the nations Unemployment Rate remained unchanged at 7. 8 . Good evening. Im judy woodruff. Brown and im jeffrey brown. On the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the final 2012 jobs report, and get a picture of the Economic Forecast in different regions of the country. Woodruff then, we talk to npr reporter deborah amos about the devastation in syria as the death toll in the twoyear civil w clis to over 60,000. Brown special correspondent john tulenko examines ohios retention rule for schools finish third grade being able to read or be held back. Up until third grade youre learning to read, after third grade youre reading to learn. But if you arent well equipped, reading pro fish eptly at the end of third grade you will struggle throughout the rest of your school years woodruff ray suarez looks at the firestorm of criticism leveled against some of the front runners for hi
Of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown 2012 ended with another month of steady but unspectacular job growth. That was the main takeaway from todays numbers out of the labor department. The weeks of will they or wont they go over the fiscal cliff in washington had raised fears that businesses would cut back hiring. Instead, the december jobs report suggests that neither employers nor job seekers were rattled, but that there had also been no big pickup in job growth. The u. S. Economy added 155,000 jobs, slightly down from november, but in line with analysts expectations. Overall, an average of 153,000 jobs were added each month in 2012, roughly the same pace as the year before. And in a sign of growing confidence, more people entered the job market last month. 182,000 americans got into the labor for
And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown 2012 ended with another month of steady but unspectacular job growth. That was the main takeaway from todays numbers out of the labor department. The weeks of will they or wont they go over the fiscal cliff in washington had raised fears that businesses would cut back hiring. Instead, the december jobs report suggests that neither employers nor job seekers were rattled, but that there had also been no big pickup in job growth. The u. S. Economy added 155,000 jobs, slightly down from november, but in line with analysts expectations. Overall, an average of 153,000 jobs were added each month in 2012, roughly the same pace as the year before. And in a sign of growing confidence, more people entered the job market last month. 182,000 americans got into the labor force. That means that they went out there
Death toll in the twoyear civil war climbs to over 60,000. Brown special correspondent john tulenko examines ohios retention rule for schools finish third grade being able to read or be held back. Up until third grade youre learning to read, after third grade youre reading to learn. But if you arent well equipped, reading pro fish eptly at the end of third grade you will struggle throughout the rest of your school years woodruff ray suarez looks at the firestorm of criticism leveled against some of the front runners for highlevel jobs in a second Obama Administration. Former senator hagel hasnt been officially nominated to become the next secretary of defense but that hasnt stopped his critics from going to war against the possible picks. Brown and mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf railway. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation