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Before pot us took office the economy created 600,000 new jobs a month. since then 530,000 jobs month. next question. agenda items including from republicans with 70% of all americans approving of the job president biden is going on coronavirus recovery, 62% approving the work on the economy. the most recent polling on president biden s infrastructure plan puts public support for it well over 50%. on the specific improvements the bill sets out to make up to 87% of respondents think they re a good idea and with republicans out in the country increasingly behind the biden agenda mitch mcconnell making clear his agenda is obstruction and stressing that 100% of the focus on blocking biden backed ....
Services but then you look at construction and government jobs, that was a loss. how do you interpret that? construction may have had something to do with unusually cold weather in december. here s a good point. the health care sector, that s a sector that continue yawly adds jobs month after month. for the first time in a decade it shed 6,000 jobs last month. the broader point is this. the job market remains pretty weak and right now in congress they re talking about whether they should extend unemployment insurance benefits. even if this report was less anom lis, the fact that there is so many long term unemployed people, these are signals, you saw that line in the picture you saw. any economy mist would look at that line say labor supply is way ahead of labor demand. then you look at the entire year for 2013 you had 2.2 mill job jobs added to the economy. ....
Added 75,000 jobs month that s not what we need to stay up with growth. you need to add 2 or 3,000 jobs a month that s what economists say. we take a look at who is talking. as the race for the white house continues they are ramping up attacks. president obama hitting mitt romney saying the former governor s stance is just so he don doesn t have to may more. i want toefsh understand here. he s not asking you to pay an extra 2,000 dollars to reduce our deficit. he s not asking you to pay additional 2,000 to pay healthcare for seniors. he is not asking you to pay 2,000 dollars in order to rebuild america or to fight a war. he s asking you to pay more so ....
panel to talk about aids. and we are talking about jobs, j j jobs, jobs, and the employers are not hiring enough to bring down the latest figures. you see that 80,000 new jobs were added last month but the labor unemployment rate remai remairemains 8.2%, and that is because of the jobs added in may. it is a different picture from the jobsarlier in the year. now president obama and mitt romney are talking about it. our mission is not to get back to where we were before the crisis, and we have to get back to what has been happening in the last decades, because jobs leaving our shores and we have to struggle to fight for. now is the time for america to choose whether they want more of the same and whether unemployment over 8% month after month after month is satisfactory or not. it does not have to be this way. america can do better and this kick in the gut has got to end. i want to break down the good news and the bad news of the latest jobs report. we are joined by ....
led up to this ipo, this public offering for facebook, many people may step out and say, wait a minute, look where the stock is ending today. the stock ending only up about a fraction of a percent just above that initial ipo offer price of $38. look, many would say it was a messy debut plagued by technical difficulties and not as much demand as everybody thought. we then saw other social media stocks tumble as well in sympathy for facebook. which everybody thought would really pop at the open. and it did. we did see facebook shares pop as much as 18% but clearly they are ending pretty flat on the day. wolf? alison, the whole point is that that $38 number came in at the high end yesterday. that was a number earlier estimates could have come in at $25, $35, $38 was considered pretty big. that was based on investor interest. remember, facebook went on this road show engaging investor interest and there was a lot of investor interest and facebook thought that it could ....