here, make up about there, as i said, one-third. they ve been out of a job for six months or more. they have more experience and are older. finally, there are the hardest hit. this group here. not paying household bills. many have had to move to cheaper housing. many only having a high school diploma. chris, these are the faces of the jobless today, hurting when it comes to money, as i ve been describing, as well as now health and love, too. all right. some of the folks and the issues that the president will be addressing later today. hoping to create a jobs movement in this country is our very own dylan ratigan. he launches round two of the steel on wheels campaign today. his show on the road to focus on jobs and innovation within the health care system. the steel wheels tour takes him to the mayo clinic in minnesota. you can watch it at 4:00 eastern time. and speaking of jobs, two big celebrities in the music industry have some new ones. wi wi
invest and very difficult to encourage people to form new businesses, which is ultimately where not only new jobs come from, but new ideas and new solutions to the problems that this country has. i know you ll talk a lot bout the ceos being in d.c. today, but give us an idea of why you left the building. this preview that you ve got for us, the steel on wheels tour. the underlying premise of the tour is very simple. i am of the belief and we are of the belief, the people that i do this show with, the partners in the show, including the folks at newcorps, the folks at mtv, the folks at the huffington post, et cetera, are of the shared belief that we really need to launch a jobs movement in this country. we re just focused on educating people to the real barriers to job creation that i talk about every day on the show. a lot of folks in d.c. try to avoid that. they don t want to deal with the difficult task of engaging china on rig trade. they don t want to deal with the
as the tax cut bill makes its way over to the house for a vote, there is some encouraging news for the white house in the latest wall street journal poll. when asked if they support the tax agreement that the white house negotiated with republicans, 59% said they approve. but that doesn t mean that many americans still are not wondering how this bill will or won t help them. i want to bring in dylan rhadigan who is tikicking off h steel on wheels tour. dylan joins us now. explain how you answer that question that many are asking, the ceos today, that we re hearing this news coming out of d.c. where the jobs? where can we create the jobs? and i guess the simplest way to answer the question where are the jobs is to ask yourself what are the things that create jobs? investment in this country creates jobs. strong educational system creates jobs. tax incentives that incentivize
about their struggles against those various issues and at the same time, make people feel and give people a venue, a place where they can connect and engage in a way that may be able to drive this message back to washington, d.c. that we do want a jobs movement in this country and that that jobs movement has to be driven around the corps issues of trade, taxes, health care and banking. it s great to open up the conversation through the people that it matters to most. dylan, thanks. we ll tell everybody that they can watch the steel on wheels tour at 4:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. next, we ll talk to white house advisor valerie jarrett about the president s meeting with america s top ceos. you don t want to miss this. are you a senior concerned about financial independence?
well, good friday afternoon to you. sunny day in oklahoma and an amazing conversation here at oklahoma state university, last night focusing on jobs and energy. putting a cap on our four-month steel on wheels tour and on the last day of this tour, a bad news/good news situation. today, oil spiking to nearly $108 a barrel but finally a little bit of progress on the jobs front. the economy adding 216,000 jobs this month, resulting in an unemployment rate of 8.8%. but we know that 8.8% number is basically a fraud. the real number of jobless in this country, 15.6%. with that said, that number is slowly dropping right now. both sides of the aisle happy, of course, to claim credit for the new jobs number.