Thats the function of the president s unrelenting commitment and the first lady and dr. Biden and so many actors who have stepped to the plate. We have made so much progress because so many more veterans have gotten the opportunity to bring their skills and talent to the work place and countless more employers are benefiting from it. I like to think of us as match. Com at the department of labor. We match job seekers who want to punch their ticket to the middle class with businesses who want to grow their business. In the dataset recession, director, center for a job seekers are at least 1. 4 for every job opening. Thats good news for veterans. Thats good news for every job seeker. Every year our American Job Centers, where match. Com is an action, 2500 American Job Centers with about 14 million people, including roughly 1 million veterans in the services. We help Transition Service members and spouses prepare for civilian life through the Transition Assistance Program. Last fourth of
Good morning. Thank you all very much for joining us today. We are going to talk about a very serious and urgent situation confronting puerto rico, the home of 3. 5 million americans. The territorys economy as we read every day has been declining for a decade. It has accumulated huge debts that it cant possibly pay. Puerto rico owes 72 billion to investors, about 46 billion to Pension Funds. Started missing bond payments in january and is expected to default on nearly 2 billion payment due july 1st. That is roughly 100 of its Gross National product. Thousands of residents are leaving the island for the mainland every month to look for jobs and better public services. The exodus is accelerating. In this context, congress and the Obama Administration have come up with compromise. The bill would establish a financial control board to oversee the island government and help restructure its debt in federal court. Require the government and the board to adequately finance Pension Funds that a
This is about 15 minutes. [applause] dr. Carson thank you. Thank you. I feel like i am at a political rally. Want to congratulates the i want to congratulate the. My wife and i have a high esteem for dr. Ingle and this university. Gray happy to be part of it. Travelortunate enough to i am alwaysies and welcomed happy to give back to this country. Some people tend to take that for granted but i do not. That was so important that each one of you developed the tremendous talent that god has provided and are to help maintain as a free country that and it is going to be a fight, it is going to be a struggle. A lot of times people ask me was it really worth getting into the political arena and having people savage her reputation and family, tell lies and do all the things, was it really worth all that and the answer is no. Not if you are doing it for yourself. Othersare doing it for and answer is a resounding yes. Can is him to elevate other people. I had an opportunity over the last year or
Stimulus. And the develop of apps, all that and more on nightly business report, april 30th. Good evening, everyone, wall street ended april with an important record, the dow, the blue chip index now at an alltime high, the first record close for 2014. The milestone came on a day when the Federal Reserve wrapped up its policy meeting deciding to keep its key Interest Rate unchanged at zero percent and despite mixed reports about the u. S. Economy. First lets get numbers on wall street, dow rose to 16,580, that is the new record, the dow is now higher for the month, nasdaq up 11 points, down 2 for april and the s p added five points and is also higher for the month. After that data, Economic Growth in the first three months of this year was much weaker than expected up just 1 tenth of one percent. Adp reported 220,000 private sector jobs added in april the most since november. Steve liesman has more on the numbers and the economic reports and tell us ab wa the state of the economy. Two
Stimulus. And the develop of apps, all that and more on nightly business report, april 30th. Good evening, everyone, wall street ended april with an important record, the dow, the blue chip index now at an alltime high, the first record close for 2014. The milestone came on a day when the Federal Reserve wrapped up its policy meeting deciding to keep its key Interest Rate unchanged at zero percent and despite mixed reports about the u. S. Economy. First lets get numbers on wall street, dow rose to 16,580, that is the new record, the dow is now higher for the month, nasdaq up 11 points, down 2 for april and the s p added five points and is also higher for the month. After that data, Economic Growth in the first three months of this year was much weaker than expected up just 1 tenth of one percent. Adp reported 220,000 private sector jobs added in april the most since november. Steve liesman has more on the numbers and the economic reports and tell us ab wa the state of the economy. Two