A look at the days news and headlines. The average now for 2018, 215,000 a month higher than it was a couple years ago. On the down side, again the number was slightly less than anticipated. Transportation and warehouse was interesting. The monthly was almost 19,000. Last month we lost 1,000 jobs there. It was one of the things that stood out to me. Bill economists and financial people can find something negative in anything. Unemployment is at 3. 9 percent. We havent seen a number like this in 18 years. The real Unemployment Number is more impressive called the u6. It takes into account people working parttime but dont want that. That number dropped from 7. 5. Thats a sharp decline in a long time. Bill 2. 7 higher wages. You want wages to go a bit higher than that. It was the expectation. Another great piece of news, people working parttime for economic reasons because they couldnt find a job, thats dropped by 176,000. 400,000 more people got a job. 100,000 people came into the workfo
gates is expected to be called to the stand soon and that s important because the judge even told the mueller team yesterday that he doesn t think they can make the case for conspiracy without rick gates. sandra. sandra: we ll continue following that throughout the day, peter. bill: we re awaiting this news conference expected live in one hour, the disappearance of mollie tibbetts continues to baffle the sheriff s department in iowa. sandra: please people fed up with crime in the city of chicago. as hundreds of protestors flood the streets calling for rahm emanuel, the mayor s, resignation. we ll speak to garyy mccarthy live in moments. he needs to step up and come to the people where the crime is. the crime is on the south side and the west side.
wants. at the brennan center here in new york put this group together, like charlie beck, garyy mccarthy in chicago, bratton from new york, and so we met with the president at the white house last thursday and much of what you re hearing him speak about today he talked about. it makes a lot of sense. we can t continue this path that we re at with mass incarceration. we have to turn a corner and we have to start bringing people home. he talked about recidivism, and the difficulty in policing. he talked about us versus them, cauldron mentality, and this group of 130 law enforcement leaders around the country agrees with him and what he s saying. now it s not going to be easy. as we start sending people home, dealing with recidivism, we have to have the things in place to wrap our arms around those folks, so services have to be in place. we have to dedicate the