all eyes were on the april jobs report this week. welcome to your $$$$$. fewer jobs than expected were created and the labor force participation rate dropped to its lowest level since 1981. hold organizati hold organization i ll tell you what that is. bottom line, this was not a good report. chris even romans is here to break it down for us. 115,000 jobs isn t enough to convince anyone there s robust hiring going on here. hiring actually slowing in 8.1% as you point out is a drop in the unemployment rate, but it s because so many people dropped sought of the workforce in the month. let s take a look at where there were jobs created. health care, we ve seen that z consistently. health care, 19,000 jobs there. also saw jobs in leisure and hospitality. again, many of these are low wage jobs and that s a big question about the durability of the american dream with the kinds of jobs we re creating. retail jobs, 29,000 jobs created there. reversal from last month when we didn t
the republicans only grudgingly voted to extend the low rates and funding the preventative health care that s true. you can agree with them or not. but they re cutting prevention funding for everyone no just women. those are facts. we have reported on this before. but it didn t stop the group moveon.org from taking out this full page ad in politico. republicans must think we re student. the republicans will only keep rates low if they cut funding for women s health. i closes with a call to keep stafford loan rates low. keeping them honest though, it doesn t. what the house bill does do is zero out a billion dollar portion of new health care law devoted to preventative medicine. money for smoking prevention, nutrition programs, hospital infection control, immunization, money to hire new doctors. but nothing in the fund for mammograms or pap smears or specific women s health issues with the exception of $7 million for breast-feeding. now the obama administration wants to includ
they should be proud moments for the country, instead, there s open partisan warfare that began with this ad narrated by bill clinton. it s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. he was referring to the hunt for osama bin ladin. what he did mean by that? given osama bin ladin s role in killing 3,000 americans on 9/11. he had to decide. and that s what you hire a president to do. you hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it. that wolf blitzer tape was part of this ad. the ad provoked a sharp response from john mccain, turning 9/11 into a cheap political attack. he went on to say, this is the same president who once criticized hillary clinton for invoking bin ladin to score political points, it s the same president who said after bin ladin was dead, we shouldn t spike the ball after the touchdown. keeping them honest, senator mccain is factually correct on both those counts. you can decide whe
wanted to scale it back, handing president obama a very big opening politically. now is not the time to double your interest rates on student loans. michelle and i, we ve been in your shoes. we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago. americans now own more on their student loans than they do on their credit cards. student loans. student loans. student loans. let s give those student loans directly to students. can i get an amen? yeah! that as a campaign drum beat, mitt romney quickly said he fully supports extending the loan program and house republicans got on board. but the bill they passed today is paid for by eliminating preventative care funding in the health care reform act. house democrats wanted to tax oil companies. that s how they wanted to pay for it. some members, minority leader nancy pelosi and others, also calling the gop funding plan another attack on women. what the majority would do today with taking the funds here instead o
it s known as sb 1070. the law requires local police officers to check a person s immigration status while enforcing other laws, if they reasonably suspect that person is in the country illegally. we asked the romney campaign where specifically does the governor stand on this, does he support it, support it with reservations or oppose it. here s the answer we got. quote, governor romney supports the right of states to assist the federal government in enforcing immigration laws particularly when the federal government has failed in their duty to enforce those laws. that is one of the issues the supreme court is trying to address. it doesn t answer the question whether or not he supports sb 1070. what about his recent record, does that shed any light on where he stands? let s take a look. january 11th as he was campaigning in south carolina, governor romney was touting the endorsement of kansas secretary of state chris cobash who wrote the 1070 law. from the romney website, quo