Created, wages are rising, and more people are looking for work. Confident theyll find a job. The numbers speak for themselves. The economy added 215,000 payroll positions last month. The Unemployment Rate edged up to 5 . But thats due to more people entering the labor market looking for work. And average Hourly Earnings rose. Hampton pearson has more on the jobs jolt and what it may mean for Interest Rates. Reporter in march, big gains and retail trade, construction, and health care were the engines of job growth. The Unemployment Rate went up but there was good news because more americans came off the sidelines to look for work. But not all of them found jobs. Those returning jobseekers also helped boost the Labor Force Participation rate to 63 , the highest in two years. Something leading economists say should please fed chair janet yellen. Weve got more Labor Force Participation so we can actually grow at a steady pace for longer without igniting inflation. So overall, really its a
Created, wages are rising, and more people are looking for work. Confident theyll find a job. The numbers speak for themselves. The economy added 215,000 payroll positions last month. The Unemployment Rate edged up to 5 . But thats due to more people entering the labor market looking for work. And average Hourly Earnings rose. Hampton pearson has more on the jobs jolt and what it may mean for Interest Rates. Reporter in march, big gains and retail trade, construction, and health care were the engines of job growth. The Unemployment Rate went up but there was good news because more americans came off the sidelines to look for work. But not all of them found jobs. Those returning jobseekers also helped boost the Labor Force Participation rate to 63 , the highest in two years. Something leading economists say should please fed chair janet yellen. Weve got more Labor Force Participation so we can actually grow at a steady pace for longer without igniting inflation. So overall, really its a
Throughout the day thanks to the cloud cover we have had all day. Here is the cloud cover across the state of iowa. These clouds are tracking to the east. We are clearing out as High Pressure builds in from the west. Heres the storm track 7 Live Weather Network. We have a mix of sun and cloud cover here across eastern iowa. But eventually the sky clears out. Were in for a nice sunday and start of the work week. But new at six Cedar Rapids Police are looking into a shooting reported this afternoon. Officers were called to 31 hundred block of first avene northeast before two oclock and also to a second location at first avenue and 35th. Police believe a person in one vehicle shot a person in a second vehicle. We will continue to follow this story for more informatton. One manns in jail aftee this happened on west parker and reed. Heres video of the scene last night. Police say they believe he was drunk when he ruptured a gas line crashing into the home. Nobody was hurt and he was later a
And that is the involvement of Security Experts in development of the Design Excellence program. I know there were some who were on the commission to develop it. But ms. Munaz and mr. Green, if you could address the actual input of the Security Experts into the program and setting standards in the program, and whether theres an ongoing effort to keep the Security Experts involved. Beyond what the state department comes up with on its own. One of the criticisms that has happened has been that the state department has underestimated the security needs and the security threats. And i want to make sure as we move forward and build these embassies that security considerations are part of that ongoing process of assessment. So if you could sort of address that, starting from who was on the initial commission and whether that involvement and security continues and mr. Green, if you could gives your assessment as a security expert yourself. Im not really a security expert. You led the committe
Road here on burnet avenue, and i saw the struggle firsthand to run a Small Business, to raise a family, to get to the middle class, and to stay in the middle class. That is why i have dedicated myself and focused to creating jobs, making sure that Small Businesses can succeed, and to bettering the middle class, because if the middleclass succeeds, then Central New York will succeed. I believe that we do have challenges, but we can face those challenges together, and that Central New York is the best place to live and work and raise a family, and as congressman, my job is to keep it that way. Congressman, thank you. Mr. Katko. Good evening, and thank you, seth, liz, and bill, for having me here, and the thank you, time warner. This is my first go round in a debate and im very honored to be here. I am excited to take part in this great democratic process. I, too, am from syracuse, new york. I was born and raised here. I am one of seven children. My mother and father lived here their who