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moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you re own chief life officer. and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: it s the biggest burst of hiring in the u.s. in nearly three years. the labor department reported numbers today that had economists sitting up and taking notice. a monthly survey found u.s. employers added a net of 321,000 new positions in november. the unemployment rate, which comes from a separate survey, stayed at 5.8%, that is a six- year low. and, in another hopeful sign, the average hourly wage rose nine cents, the most in 17 months. we ll examine what s behind the numbers, later in the program. protests over the killings of black men by white police kept going today w ....
moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you re own chief life officer. and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: it s the biggest burst of hiring in the u.s. in nearly three years. the labor department reported numbers today that had economists sitting up and taking notice. a monthly survey found u.s. employers added a net of 321,000 new positions in november. the unemployment rate, which comes from a separate survey, stayed at 5.8%, that is a six- year low. and, in another hopeful sign, the average hourly wage rose nine cents, the most in 17 months. we ll examine what s behind the numbers, later in the program. protests over the killings of black men by white police kept going today w ....
moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become you re own chief life officer. and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: it s the biggest burst of hiring in the u.s. in nearly three years. the labor department reported numbers today that had economists sitting up and taking notice. a monthly survey found u.s. employers added a net of 321,000 new positions in november. the unemployment rate, which comes from a separate survey, stayed at 5.8%, that is a six- year low. and, in another hopeful sign, the average hourly wage rose nine cents, the most in 17 months. we ll examine what s behind the numbers, later in the program. protests over the killings of black men by white police kept going today w ....
gets used for corporations and the wealthy. that s not a guess, by the way. that is the way the republican budget ^+budget is structured. that s their budget numbers. awful it to lower all of it to lower tax rates for corporations and the rich. they re willing to spread the wealth around, as long as it stays in the same hands. we re at the gates of ali baba s cave, this special treasure-trove of earmarks for the rich and connected. we re at that place where the lobbyistists queel the special x deals. we re knocking on the door of tax spending that has been completely untouched, completely untouched in the deficit reduction so far. and our republican colleagues are getting a little twitchy. come on, fellahs. out of nearly $14 trillion in tax spending and earmarks, can t we put just 7% of it, just 7% of it toward the debt and the deficit? our proposal is to leave 93% of the treasure in the cave. that s not unreasonable. what s unreasonable, what s unbalanced is the repu ....
so, ladies and gentlemen, and congressman, thank you very much for that conversation. here s how we re going to proceed for the remainder of our our. we will engage in a short and brief conversation up here. i ve a couple of questions i m going to pick up on based on your comments this morning and then we will open the microphone for questions from the floor. so be thinking about the questions that you want to ask and when the time comes we ll ask you to raise your hand and do our usual procedure of wait for the microphone and identify your identify yourself. let me start out with a couple thoughts of your very useful description of both while you re doing what you re doing and what you hope to do. there s a lot on worth the effort peace if you will. i think he made the case very strongly for why it s important or critical. it s a little harder though to talk about the possibilities, not necessary the possibilities of undertaking the effort of the possibilities of a ....