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than a year. more on that in just a moment but first the big story of the day, jobs. the january employment report was strong. employers hired, wage growth was visible and more people reentered the labor market a sign that many are confident about their job prospects. the economy created 270,000 jobs last month. more than economists expected and in your opinions for november and december were revised sharply higher. the unemployment rate rose to 5.7%. one of the most encouraging numbers may have been the increase in average hourly earnings by half a percent. it doesn t sound like much perhaps, but it was the biggest monthly gain in more than six years and all of this positive news has wall street and main street looking to the federal ree a its timetable for hiking rates. hampton pearson has more. reporter: the robust hiring in january also included the biggest one-month gain in average hourly earnings in six years. to just under $25 an hour. and there were blockbuste ....
than a year. more on that in just a moment but first the big story of the day, jobs. the january employment report was strong. employers hired, wage growth was visible and more people reentered the labor market a sign that many are confident about their job prospects. the economy created 270,000 jobs last month. more than economists expected and in your opinions for november and december were revised sharply higher. the unemployment rate rose to 5.7%. one of the most encouraging numbers may have been the increase in average hourly earnings by half a percent. it doesn t sound like much perhaps, but it was the biggest monthly gain in more than six years and all of this positive news has wall street and main street looking to the federal ree a its timetable for hiking rates. hampton pearson has more. reporter: the robust hiring in january also included the biggest one-month gain in average hourly earnings in six years. to just under $25 an hour. and there were blockbuste ....
but first the big story of the day, jobs. the january employment report was strong. employers hired, wage growth was visible and more people reentered the labor market a sign that many are confident about their job prospects. the economy created 270,000 jobs last month. more than economists expected and in your opinions for november and december were revised sharply higher. the unemployment rate rose to 5.7%. one of the most encouraging numbers may have been the increase in average hourly earnings by half a percent. it doesn t sound like much perhaps, but it was the biggest monthly gain in more than six years and all of this positive news has wall street and main street looking to the federal ree a its timetable for hiking rates. hampton pearson has more. reporter: the robust hiring in january also included the biggest one-month gain in average hourly earnings in six years. to just under $25 an hour. and there were blockbuster revisions boosting the jobs numbers for n ....
and in a speech be he delivered on the 10th of december this year, so a couple of days a he said there is no excuse for 750 billion u.s. dollars in food waste per year. when we only need 80 billion u.s. dollars to feed the hungry. and this comes from a businessman, one of the biggest businessmen there is. so he is really sincere. i m very convinced he is. nevertheless, roughly i one-third of our food is waste, and i think others you will have better figures of that, but let s say in kilograms or pounds or whatever measurements, but one-third let s keep it at one-third. and it gets lost or it gets wasted. this washington causes emissions to the environment, pesticides, fertilizers, methane, and that is 23 times more potent greenhouse effect than co2. than the food leads to loss of amounts of labor income, water, you know, agriculture uses loads of water. it s the first user of waters which, fresh water we have lack of in the world as well. fertile soils get lost. in de ....