For-week supplemental unemployment per-week supplemental unemployment benefit ifs. so maybe the question is how much better could the jobs report have been if the rest of the states and, you know, they happen to be mostly blue states, right? if they ended their supplemental unemployment benefits. are those states going to end up dragging the economy down? so that s an argument that could be made. look, there s other bad news to consider. if you want to see the glass as half empty, it s easy to do so. 6.8 million jobs still haven t returned from the pre-pandemic level. people have left the job market because they got so frustrated. so there s still a lot of ground to cover. and clearly, the enhanced jobless benefits may have kept some people from looking. but what s happened also is this that wage rates have gone up about 3.6%, hourly wage rates over a year ago, so so that s incentivizing and attracting people back to the job market. and you could say that those enhanced benefitses
Pick up infrastructure, passing immigration reform, a tax cut for businesses that would finance the infrastructure investments, these are ways to grow the economy even faster. the best way to help katherine hackett and 1.3 million people who lost benefitses and 3.6 million others who stand to lose thi benefits this year if congress doesn t act is to grow the economy faster. because the biggest source of gdp growth is when we have more consumption. when you put money in people s pockets, they spend more. when they spend more, businesses hire more, the economy grows. when you take when you get rid of unemployment benefits and when you don t have a fair wage, when the minimum wage as it is now is too low, people don t have money in their pockets and can t spend. and the economy doesn t grow fast enough. i m confident we can move forward. we ve done it before and done it
on this holocaust remembrance day, the president gave a powerful speech at the u.s. holocaust memorial museum right near in washington, d.c. speaking of government slaughter in syria which has now claimed more than 11,000 lives. jill dougherty is joining us with the latest details. at the museum, president obama referred to the unhappy record of the state department during the holocaust in world war ii. now he says preventing mass atrocities is no only a moral responsibility, it s a key security issue of the united states. reporter: barack obama shook hands with people who survived the death camp more than 60 years ago. he found new meaning in the phrase never again. never again is a challenge to nations. it s a bitter truth. too often the world has failed to prevent the killing of innocents on a massive scale and we are haunted by the lives we did not save. we are seeing the the killings in bosnia, the killings in darfur. they shock our conscience, but they are t
Everybody has to render judgment on whether they think it s a big deal or not. the republicans need to do it right now. the party that has always said they re all about family values. got to ask you this, gentlemen, before we go. he steps out, who benefits. sam? clearly i think gingrich is the one who benefits. obviously there s been a good chunk, maybe 70% of the party who isn t willing to commit to mitt romney. as soon as the non-romney candidates did l down a lit bit, the one last standing is going to win. that s gingrich. keep in mind there s a chance jon huntsman can make a run at this thing but his votes are going to come primarily from people who would consider mitt romney as a candidate. he s dry toast but he s a smart guy. michael, who gains when cain tips over in this race? it s a seussian nightmare for herman cain. the guy who stole christmas is here. there s no question that newt gingrich benefitses from this. because he s been straightforward about his own peccadillo
Character issues as well. it is huge. i think it s huge. everybody has to render judgment on whether they think it s a big deal or not. the republicans need to do it right now. the party that has always said they re all about family values. got to ask you this, gentlemen, before we go. he steps out, who benefits. sam? clearly i think gingrich is the one who benefits. obviously there s been a good chunk, maybe 70% of the party who isn t willing to commit to mitt romney. as soon as the non-romney candidates did l down a lit bit, the one last standing is going to win. that s gingrich. keep in mind there s a chance jon huntsman can make a run at this thing but his votes are going to come primarily from people who would consider mitt romney as a candidate. he s dry toast but he s a smart guy. michael, who gains when cain tips over in this race? it s a seussian nightmare for herman cain. the guy who stole christmas is here. there s no question that newt gingrich benefitses from this.