i m all about free travel, babe. that s what i do. [ female announcer ] fortunately, there s an easier way, with creditcards.com. compare hundreds of cards from every major bank and find the one that s right for you. creditcards.com. it s simple. with 1.3 million americans without long-term unemployment benefits, some may be looking for new ways to energize their job search, volunteering actually increases the odds of finding a job. wendy spencer is the ceo of ncs and she joins me now. thanks, wendy, for being here from tallahassee. happy new year. happy new year to you. based on this report, one in four americans are volunteering. that is a boost to the economy?
decide. you don t decide. ask them what are they concerned about. they will tell you, kristen, they will tell you, i don t want another child to go hungry. i don t want another child to have a holiday without a gift. i don t want a child to go homeless. address the needs by engaging children in what they are interested in. wendy spencer, thank you so much. we appreciate it. hope you have a great holiday. thank you, kristen. there was a big celebration on the today show set this morning. matt lauer reunited with jane pauley and brian gumbel for his birthday. even though he couldn t be there in person al made sure his gift was delivered. check it out. i wanted to give you something practical. carson daley helping me out. he s got something for you to help you with your look. carson, if you could bring that in. i ve got it for you here. just for men. carson, really? al just called it in.
0 enroll today, take care of that knee and every other part notice how young everybody was in that ad, too? the cool thing to do trying to get young people to sign up because if young people don t sign up, what s going to happen? and advertise during football, which was a smart move. you want to reach a young audience, run it during football. a lot of children who are up to the age of 26 are already covered under their parent s plan which was the beauty of this affordable care act. but now trying to entice these younger people to enroll, many are saying i don t have to do that. i can sign up with my parents, stay until i m 26. maybe they re trying to appeal to the 26 and older crowd. maybe it was the last football reference the president had. remember when he said he fumbled the rollout of obamacare and was raked over the coals. jay leno said a fumble can happen to anybody. this is when you say you were great at football when you remember actually stinking at football. pres
this task force will be led by my team here at the white house along with wendy spencer who s here, ceo of corporation of international community service who previously led the volunteer commission in florida for governor jeb bush. so we ve got a whole family thing working. in times of tight budgets and some very tough problems, we know that the greatest resource we have is the limitless energy and ingenuity of our citizens. when he harness that energy and create more opportunities for americans to serve, we pay tribute to the extraordinary sample set by president bush. to close on a personal note, mr. president, i m one of millions of people who ve been inspired by your passion and your commitment. you have helped so many americans discover that they, too, have something to contribute. that they, too, have the power to make a difference. you ve described for us those 1,000 points of why all the people in organizations spread out across the country are like
from disasters, mentoring our kids. and this task force will be led by my team here at the white house along with wendy spencer who is here, ceo of the corporation of national community service who previously led the volunteer commission in florida for governor jeb bush. we have a whole family thing working. in times of tight budgets and tough problems, we know that greatest resource we have is to harness energy and create more opportunities for americans to serve and we pay tribute to the examples set by president bush. and just to close on a personal note, mr. president, i m one of millions of people who have been in inspired by your passion and commitment. americans know they too have something to contribute, they too with the power to make a difference. you describe for us those thousand point of light. all of the people and organizations spread out across