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Mayor that led to concrete things. so when he comes with his douglas plan, you re saying that he, in fact, has began doing some of that in his tenure as mayor at home in south bend, which is the record that we d have to go on since that s the office he d held? absolutely, as well as raising the minimum wage with council. you know, the minimum wage was $7.25 an hour. now all city employees come in at $10.10 an hour. if you re a full-time employee, you ll have a minimum of $30,000 a year, which equates to $14.46 an hour. so those are things that were implemented in 2016 way before he thought of even running for president of the united states. now, a brand-new poll of voters in only super tuesday states shows mayor pete in fourth place, but he has less than half of the support of ....
54/46, she ll bet trump. 54/46, bob? yeah. do you know how many hispanic voters will had come out and vote against trump if they get the opportunity? bob cusak, you re smiling. what s the grin about. i think likability is far more important than policy in politics. hillary clinton has a likability problem and a trust problem. donald trump certainly is liked by a solid 30% to 40% of the republican voters he s getting now. can he broaden that? how would he do in the debates? he s a pretty good debater. in politics, you never know what s going to happen. i think democrats are very good when they have a boogeyman on the other side and they did this to romney. they re very good at going after that boogeyman. we have a long way to go. obviously it s going to be fun because we ll see people voting. let s give don lemon a little credit here. it was seven months ago when you first came on this show and you said people shouldn t rush to ....
Facebook and downloading coupons. angry customers were having none of that forcing an about face by again mills. credit rates were on the rise no matter what your credit score is. we have what you need to know. good morning, lori. you may hear credit is cheap these days. while it is true for mortgages and auto loans not the case for credit cards. interest rates on your personal credit cards are soaring these days above 21 percent. for those of us we get credit according to card hub. average interest rates for those of you with excellent credit 12.86 percent. that s up half percent from last year if you have good credit your rates are up 1 and a half percent. for those of you with only fair credit scores you are looking at rates whopping 4.46 percent to an average rate north of 21 ers p. why such a sharp spike in rates? ....
We ll be back with you throughout the show. let s talk about the jobs report. it s scheduled to be released this morning. and economists are optimistic on what we ll be seeing. but that s really only part of the story. christine romans is here with more on that. hi there, kate. let s talk about the jobs report in a moment. your economy is three things, jobs, investments and housing. we think of it as the three corners of the triangle. you need all of those for your personal finances and to grow your wealth. small businesses, they seem to be hiring more than the big businesses are by the way. auto sales have been up. you have the signals that are showing the economy doing a little bit better. when you re talking about the economy doing better, let s talk about housing. you say there s good news there. that s one very important part of your finance triangle. 3% home growth is what zillow was forecasting. mortgage rates moving up, 4.46%. that s not necessarily bad. why? it says the ....
December 18th. the final day of the fed s next two day meeting and if this is a strong jobs report this morning could be the day the fed is paring back the huge bond program and kept interest rates low a long time. investors scratching their heads the past few days how strong the economy is because we are getting good economic news. i want to be clear on that. look at the numbers. below 300,000. i keep putting an asterisk. see that? each of these comes with a little bit of an asterisk. gdp companies ramping up on their inventories and now have to sell them. you still got mortgage rates so low that that has been very good for home buyers but i think you re going to see mortgage rates moving up, john. i think they we have seen them moving up 4.46% yesterday we learned was the 30-year fixed mortgage rate. 5% i think next year and seems ....