wow. all right. that s a lot. thanks so much. christine romans, appreciate that. so if you are one of the 15 million americans out of work, very discouraging predictions right now. employment experts that talk to cnn says it may be even harder for the unemployed to actually land a job. here is why. these experts say more companies are posting ads just like this one saying unemployed candidates will not be considered. or ads might say you must be currently employed. human resources consultants say they noticed the trend and they give a couple of reasons for it. they say that the stigma remains that being laid off is linked to bad job performance. despite the high unemployment rate. second, job recruiters are swamped. the u.s. labor department says that there are nearly six jobless people for every job opening and eliminating the unemployed is a shortcut to shrinking the applicant pool. calling on all billionaires.
kids self-esteem and in areas of the city where they desperately need it. i think in many respects, his efforts helped tip support in the favor of building a new school there because of the resources used to bring in the contributions and the attention. reporter: this means a lot more to you than just football. we try to shape young men into being successful men and productive members of skoet. reporter: bordainick and the rams still need a half million dollars to break ground but they have faith it will come because just like football, they are working on it. let s go. don t walk on my field! reporter: tom foreman, cnn, new orleans. all of the act is there, but the emotion? not so much. this is what a big world cup match looks like in leg go land. more on this.
someone else who has been through it can talk to you. one coping mechanism that a lot of family members try to use is trying to celebrate, continue to celebrate, the life of a lost loved one. how much of that is something that do you? how much do you think about the things that he loved to do? we re looking at some still photographs of him playing, maybe horse playing with a sibling at home, being at the piano, there on a tricycle. how often do you try to think of those gleaming kind of moments? i try to focus on them a lot. the first year or so, those pictures bring tears, but after the pain wears down, they bring memories that you can laugh and enjoy, and the things that my son valued, we try to do things in his memory and honor to have
that juice in the housing market from the home buyer tax credit that has the wound down, you have to have a contract signed by april 30th, you know, now what? another survey, confidence survey from homebuilders yesterday, showed a surprise there, too. it showed homebuilders are a little worried here. that index was 17. what does that mean? you need a reading above 50 to mean builders, people are actually building the houses you are going live in some day, have a positive outlook. all of these are just reasons for caution here in the housing market. we didn t think no one thought it would be some runaway bull market in housing by any stretch of the imagination. they were hoping that the stability would last longer. the question now is once we get through the summer, once that home buyer tax credit certain sly in the rear view mirror, if can you get jobs to start to be creative again in significant number, private sector, full-time jobs, then will you see the housing market start to
suzanne malveaux at the white house, thank you. in the primetime speech, the president spoke to the nation, and among those listening, the people living in the disaster zone. for two months their frustrations have been building and their demands for more action. it all sounds good, and i got to have confident in my president that he ll follow through with some of the plans that we have been going over with, but i just don t know. i just got a lot of fears and unknowns. he said nothing. it was photo opposite. all it is is photo opes. it really upsets me. it s not the money. it s the idea of stopping the leak. so, for the fifth time since the deepwater horizon leak explode, the government is raising the estimate for how much oil is flowing into the gulf coast. patricia wu joins us from new