Despite omicron, the u.s. economy added 467,000 jobs with the unemployment rate up slightly at 4%. dean of the clinton school of public service, at the university of arkansas and deputy national editor of the washington post and speaker advisors to speakers. are these jobsb ins surprising, encouraging? where do you think the economy is heading? they were blockbuster amazing. we thought it was going to be a bad month because of omicron. we thought they were going to potentially be job losses. so, to come in over 400,000 was a great sign. you saw labor force participation rise, wages rise. blockbuster numbers continuing
Sign. that this number, for jobs, suggests that there s a little breathing room the fed can raise rates without sending us into recession. that they re trying to manage what they call the soft landing and get us back to normalization. and victoria, there s been a huge disconnect between the strong jobs numbers and the way people feel about the economy, which is the political impact that is going to effect the midterms and the white house is paying such close attention to that. how do we get to the point where americans feel better? it s a gloominess, it s a funk and i think how we get out of the gloominess and funk is getting to the numbers below the aggregate. i agree these are blockbuster numbers. fantastic news.
Into the fall and possibly into next year. do you see this becoming politically contentious at all with republicans or do both sides feel they have something to benefit voting by proxy. is anything not politically con ten thoushs absolutely not. republicans hate this in the house. if it lets them win votes on the infrastructure bill they ll support it. like everything else that happens in the congress today this is sharply, sharply partisan and will probably be enacted by nancy pelosi over objection by republicans. axios is reporting on profits for tech giants. how are they using the wealth to their advantage? we re starting the earning season this year. they ll have blockbuster numbers, record setting earnings growth as we saw in the start of
Good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. it s tuesday, june 1st. another sign of life in the u.s. returning to normal for covid-weary americans. blockbuster numbers from the tsa show just how huge a holiday weekend travel experience it was as the lockdowns were lifted. let s get to cnn s pete muntean live at reagan national airport. what do the numbers say? this airport was a ghost town a year ago. now the tsa says it screened 1.9 million people at airports across the country on monday. just compare that to where we were a year ago when the tsa screened only 350,000 people nationwide. the pandemic record set back on friday when 1.96 million people flew. and all of this means that air
Of it. you know, the ramifications are that everything that elizabeth warren and, you know, people like joe biden are saying only the rich has benefited is clearly false. this report from the census bureau shows that by the way these are blockbuster numbers that just since donald trump was elected and took offers through july of 2019 median family incomes, middle class incomes are up $4,100. now, just to give you a sense of you who big that number is, in the entire 8 years that obama was president, incomes only budged up $1,000. in one third the time trump has increased incomes by four times as much. we now have a median family income of $65,000. that shows pretty clearly that the middle class are the people who have been benefiting. by the way, one other quick thing. you asked me about the tax cut. that $4,100 increase in