middle class tax cut that has been given to us for by name, to reduce the amount that we re paying into social security. what we should be talking about the real tax reform, what it s going to take to increase our revenues by broadening our economic base, by growing our economy. we aren t doing that. we need to be talking about what the american people want to hear. that s where the jobs are going to come from. that would be congressman dennis ross speaking there. christine romans is in atlanta this morning breaking down the details on this. i think, soledad, in an election year this is a no brainer for republicans and democrats. you ve got 160 million people who are getting a tax benefit e6 ry paycheck they get. it s $1,000 over the course of a year. $40 per paycheck, that s if you make $50,000 a year or so. so this was something in an election year you just, you know, the feeling in washington you just can t be raising taxes on people, on working people in an election
keeping them honest, how clean are are speaker gingrich s hands or rick per yis or anyone else s? we ll start with the concession speech speaker gingrich praised iowans who ignored the attack ads. they would listen and they really wanted to get to the truth rather than the latest 30-second distortion. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars in negative advertising if it wasn t for the thousands of volunteers who showed up and who helped us in every town and in every precinct. it s part of what made these negative ads so shameful. every one of us should remember, this process survives because young men and women risk their lives to allow us to do this. speaker gingrich last night. now here s a sampling of ads that ran all over iowa in the last few weeks. newt has more baggage than the airlines. newt gingrich supports amnesty for millions of illegals. gingrich was fined $300,000 for ethics violations. whatever you think of
rate has fallen to 8.6%. that s the lowest rate in nearly three years. christine romans back with us in new york now. so, christine, what a marked improvement. 120,000 jobs added in november, where are we seeing the most growth here? we had the last two months here res have hire, as well. many more jobs created in september and october than we thought. the growth we re seeing is in the retail industry, no surprise there. 50,000 jobs created in the retail industry and half of those were in clothing stores and also in apparel, you know, accessory stores. you also saw leisure and hospitality. that means hotels, restaurants, too, food and drinking places. anything that has to do with people starting to get out and spend money there. you saw them adding workers in those places. also, professional and business services. 27,000 jobs created there and in health care and education, we saw about 20,000 jobs created. so, retail, food and drink, professional, medical system, medical pl
last sunday. dozens of families have lost their homes to wildfires. in oklahoma city alone, fires destroyed 25 homes just this week. and in texas, crews are still battling 14 separate wildfires. they have been making some progress, but a weather system is expected to bring high winds to texas to tomorrow. and that could turn the embers back into flames. politics and sarah palin s latest appearance in the critical early voting state of iowa. the former alaska governor and former vp candidate was a keynote speaker at a tea party rally. she didn t use the rally to declare her presidential bid but she definitely sounded like a candidate. watch. candidate obama didn t have a record while he was in office, but president obama sure does and that s why we re here today. candidate obama, he pledged to fundamentally transform america and for all the failures and broken promises, that s the one thing he delivered on. we have transformed from a country of hope, to one of anxiety. t