Jack markell. Brown then, the state department issued a Global Travel alert today, warning of possible terror attacks. Margaret warner explains whats behind the concern that al qaeda might strike again. Woodruff asia is clamoring for more american coal, but the infrastructure is not there to meet the growing demand. We look at the debate over bringing more trains and ships to the Pacific Northwest to boost exports while protecting the environment. We dont think its an either or proposition. We think that you can develop family wage jobs and be good stewards and protect the environment. We have our fish, we have our salmon, we have our clean air. Well lose that. Thats losing to me. Brown a new survey finds that americans of different races have very Different Levels of optimism about their economic future. Ray suarez digs into the surprising results. Woodruff david brooks and ruth marcus analyze the weeks news. Brown and how do you send a ship miles off course, without touching its Steering Wheel . Fool its g. P. S. System. We examine new research that shows the vulnerability of satellite navigation systems. Woodruff thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Brown unemployment is down, but job growth still leaves a lot to be desired. Thats the upshot of julys jobs data from the labor department. The newshours economics correspondent paul solman has our report. Reporter todays report suggested that the economic recovery may be slowing down. Employers added only 162,000 new jobs last month, 23,000 less than Economic Forecasters consensus predication. The new jobs total was the lowest since march. Moreover, the government revised job growth for may and june, down by 26,000. As for the new jobs, most were in lowerpaying Industries Like retail, hotels, and restaurants. Even though inflation continues to rise, the average hourly wage actually dropped by two cents, the first decline in wages since last october and the most since late 2011. Overall, the economy has created nearly 200,000 jobs a month since the start of the year. And while those arent exactly terrible numbers, they dont represent robust growth after a deep recession, especially with the working age population growing by 200,000 a month, as it did in july. As Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy institute points out, even at 200,000 a month, it will take much longer than many realize to reduce unemployment significantly. If we continue with that pace of job growth, going forward, we get a little less than 200,000 jobs a month, every single month, indefinitely, we wont fill the jobs gap for another five years. Reporter todays announcement came on the heels of another lackluster report that showed the u. S. Gross domestic product grew only slightly last quarter by 1. 7 . Todays supposedly good news was that the Unemployment Rate slid to 7. 4 from 7. 6 , marking a fourandahalf year low. Thats partly due to workers finding new opportunities in an improving labor market. But some of that decline can be attributed to the shrinking size of the nations workforce as more baby boomers, 10,000 of them a day reaching the full Social Security age of 66, and, says shierholz, theres another reason the Unemployment Rate has been dropping. The Unemployment Rate right now is vastly overstating the improvement in the labor market, in the recovery, because we have so many workers who have dropped out of the labor force, or never entered it because Job Opportunities are so weak. Reporter Job Opportunities as especially weak in manufacturing, which showed no job growth in july. Factory jobs have remained at a standstill for a year now. The numbers for both longterm unemployment and parttime workers looking for fulltime jobs were unchanged in july. Woodruff we continue our look at the employment picture with governor markells call to increase jobs for those with a disability. Also ahead on the newshour the state Department Warns of a possible terrorist attack; the debate over increasing coal exports; surprising racial divides over economic optimism; brooks and marcus analyze the weeks news and fooling g. P. S. Systems. But first, the other news of the day. Heres kwame holman. Holman the jobs report sent wall street lower at first, but in the end, stocks managed small gains. The Dow Jones Industrial average added 30 points to close at 15,658. The nasdaq rose nearly 14 points to close at 3,689. For the week, the dow gained just over half a percent. The nasdaq rose 2 . The defense rested today in boston, in the murder and racketeering trial of james whitey bulger. The reputed former underworld boss opted not to testify. Instead, he told the federal court judge as far as im concerned, this is a sham. Bulger is accused in the murders of 19 people, among other crimes. Closing arguments are set for monday, and the jury is expected to get the case on tuesday. The Italian Coalition government initially struggled today to deal with fallout from Silvio Berlusconis tax fraud conviction. The countrys Supreme Court upheld the former Prime Ministers fouryear prison sentence on thursday. The 76yearold media billionaire ialso is likely to lose his seat in parliament. Today, Prime Minister enrico letta played down prospects that berlusconis supporters might bolt from the governing coalition. I am fully aware that this is a delicate moment, politically. I said yesterday and i repeat it now, i am a person who puts italy before anything else. If there is someone who wants to put other priorities first, then i think it is important at this time to have clarity on what those priorities are. First of all comes the country, first of all is italy. Holman berlusconi condemned the court ruling, but it is unlikely he will serve actual jail time. Instead, hes likely to do a year of Community Service or a year of house arrest. In egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood organized new mass marches despite government warnings such gatherings would be broken up. Supporters of deposed former president Mohammed Morsi marched to the military Intelligence Headquarters in cairo. They also started a new sitin at the airport. But amid the protests, state t. V. Announced police will blockade existing sitins. The interim cabinet has warned the camp sites will be disbanded one way or the other. The u. S. Supreme court refused today to stay an order that california release 10,000 state prison inmates. A lower federal Court Required the release by years end, to ease crowding. Governor jerry brown argued the state needed more time to find natialters and ou more prisoners ely will jeopardize public safety. The states 33 prisons are reported to be at 150 of capacity. Those are some of the days major stories. Now, back to judy. Woodruff and we return to the jobs story with a look at how difficult the labor market is for people with disabilities and what can be done about it. Estimates show that of the 54 million americans with a disability, just 20 are employed or seeking a job. A new report out today has recommendations to improve those prospects. It comes from delaware governor jack markell, the current chairman of the National Governors association. I spoke with him a short time ago. Governor jack markell, thank you for talking with us. Pelley good to be with you, thanks so much. So we know from todays unemployment report the jobs picture is improving but its slow. Theres Something Like 11 or 12 million americans out of work who would like to have a job. Why focus on people with disabilities . There are so Many Companies around the country that are looking for people with particular skills and the fact is weve got to focus on the ability and not on the disability and have seen so Many Companies around the country benefit when they give people with disabilities a shot at employment and thats what this is all about. Yoabout. Woodruff you are saying in this report that youve issued today that its not about a social service on the part of employers but about the bottom line. Explain what you mean by that. One of the most exciting things of the last year is people have told us they employ people with disabilities not because its charity but its in the best interest of their re time, theyre delighted to have the job, theres less turnover. And so when you hear the c. E. O. Of a company like walgreens tell his fellow c. E. O. S that thats why he hires people with disabilities. Ice very exciting and were trying to make sure that governors have all the tools tos that they need to be supportive of businesses around the country who want to provide Employment Opportunity to people with disabilities. Woodruff if thats the story, why arent more people businesses hiring people with disabilities . We need to get the word out. Thats number one. Not enough businesses are hearing this message. They dont know theres so many successful examples of company prose ride ising these Employment Opportunities to people with disabilities and how well its working out. Thats number one. Number two, states have to do a much better job. For too long states have approached businesses asking businesses as a favor to provide Employment Opportunities for people with disabilities really as a charity. Thats not what this is about. We have to change our mind seth. We have to recognize that were business partners. A lot of these businesses are looking for people with skills. We bring those people we bring people. It could be people with disabilities, it might be people who are traditionally abled. We have so many opportunities to bring people with the necessary skills and i think the better we do as states and the more businesses hear from other business it is more successful well be. Woodruff governor, give us examples of the kind of job, the kind of work people with disabilities, either physical disabilities or intellectual disabilities are doing or can do that might surprise our audience . There is such a wide range. Let me give you an example we have a Company Actually in delaware but its a regional i. T. Company, thousands of employees. Theyve committed over the next few years that 3 of their i. T. Consultants will be people with autism because they found that many people with autism are great at data testing and Software Quality analysis. Weve met executives at microsoft and Highmark Insurance Company who are deaf. Walgreens is an incredible employer. Half of their employees at Distribution Centers in South Carolina and connecticut have a range of disabilities. Thats why the focus has to be on the ability and not the disability. People have so many Different Things to offer, but so often these folks have not been given a shot, were trying to change that. Woodruff but youre not talking about a State Government requiring employers to do something, is that right . No. And the beauty of this is if you talk to these businesses, once they give some of these folks a shot of employment they find out its in the best interest of their own shareholders. So this is not a requirement. We believe we as states have to do a better job of walking the walk and being a model employer of people with disabilities, but businesses will choose to do it. When they have the facts, businesses will choose to do it for their own appropriate reasons, mainly whats in the interest of their shareholders. The other thing we have is we have to do a much better job of preparing our youth with disabilities for a lifetime of expectation of employment and not for a lifetime of expectation of being on public benefit. Woodruff that leads to a question i was thinking about that. Is what do you think it is going to take for individuals with disabilities in this country and, as you said, there are millions of them who are not working to have something close to the opportunity that individuals who are ablebodied have to work. Well, part of it is we states, governors, have to do a better job of really making disability employment part of our overall Work Force Development strategy. Its a change in a cultural mindset away from charity and more toward whats in the best interest of the businesses. Thats number one. Number two, we have toe do a better job of talking to businesses, recruiting businesses and having businesses hear from each other. Im telling you that when a c. E. O. Of a company hears the c. E. O. Of walgreens or the c. E. O. Of lowes or office max or u. P. S. Talk about why employing people with disabilities is right for their business, they hear that. And its not just big businesses, its mediumsized businesses as well. So we think theres several different strategies. Weve issued this blueprint today thats very practical in nature, very concrete suggestions, but it does start as well with setting expectations for our young kids with disabilities that they, in fact, can work. They will work. We believe in them, theyll believe in themselves and we have to work hard to make sure those opportunities are there for them. Woodruff governor jack markell of delaware, thank you very much. Thanks, judy. Woodruff next week ill talk about a report that shows many people are still live in institutions when the law call for them to be moving into a home or community care. Brown the u. S. State department issued a Global Travel alert today, citing a threat from al qaeda. The statement particularly warned american citizens in the middle east and north africa. It said al qaeda may focus efforts to conduct attacks in the period between now and the end of august. Embassies and consulates will close 21 embassies and consulates will be closed this weekend in mostly muslim nations, stretching from west africa to bangladesh, as a result of the increased threat. Margaret warner has been reporting on this all day and joins me now. Welcome, margaret. What have do we know about how specific the threat is . First we have to start to say that those who really know arent talking in detail and a lot of those talking and speculating dont know. But we do know that there was a lot of credible an increase in credible whats called chatter over the last week to two weeks. Perhaps bolstered by something very specific this week. We do know it was fairly specific as to timing, that Something Big is in the works at this time period from now until early next week where the embassies are closed and through the rest of the month potentially. What is not known, apparently, is location or targets. Not location geographic necessarily or targets, but the threat does come from or connected to the radical organization, the Jihadi Organization headquartered in yemen, al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which as you will recall was behind the Christmas Day bomber of 2009, also the plot to send explosives through the air in 2010. Brown so what does it mean for the embassies and travelers right now . Jeff, for embassies, theyre not sending personnel home but it means that sunday which would be the start of the work week in the muslim world, they will be closed. Low cal staff will come in. No members of the public will come in. Nobody needing a visa or wanting to see the cannes already a section. In many areas many of the staff inside the compounds wont come out. But these compounds are heavily fortified and many people live on theyre like a base. And those people may go to work. What it means for travelers again, this is not a Worldwide Travel ban but whats curious or interesting to me in this travel alert is the focus on Public Transportation systems. To avoid Public Transportation, to remember that terrorists are good at attacking subways and trains and airplanes. That focus is worth travelers taking note. Brown i want to pull that map back up because its notable what a large area this is. How unusual is that and why such a large stretch . Well, the state department cannot think of a precedent for this. I cant say its unprecedented, but they cant think of one. This reflects not only an abundance of caution, which is what the state department says, but also the fact that in the last two years during this turmoil of the arab spring a lot of these different al qaeda wannabes or linked affiliates thats al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula but also al qaeda in Northern Africa or. Aq. I. M. And also a newly resur