Unemployment numbers across the board. the plblack number is 5.7% and e hispanic 3.9% and the asian 2.1% and the overall rate is 3.7%. what that number tells me is we still have work to do particularly in the black community when it comes to the unemployment number. labor force participation ticked down and that is not good news when there is one and a half jobs for every job seeker. and this is in your purview. how much does that worry you? it s a bit of a concern since for a little bit now. and i think that obviously we re still keeping in context of the pandemic. a lot of people left the job market due to the pandemic. we lost a lot of lives during the pandemic so some of those jobs won t be replaced. that is not the number that we re talking about now. we re going into the new year focusing even more intentionally on apprenticeships and working about companies and, a lot of
That picks apples in washington state. a machine that shakes almonds off trees in california and a john deere driveless tractor that tills corn fields in the midwest. the university of nebraska says its technology could increase farm production by over 30%. not everyone is counting their corn before it pops. obviously a lot of this will affect jobs. well yes, these technologies are designed first and foremost to replace work that humans do with work that machines do. at the end of the day, those jobs won t be there in the same way they ve been in the past. there will be fewer of them. patrick bauer is an expert on sustainable food system policy at the university of rhode island. he says farm workers and their families could soon be decimated. he also predicts something possibly more sinister. all of this new technology is made by companies who are now going to want a piece of
Their personal finances in the last month. in the last four weeks, almost half of americans have said that they have had a directed impacted on their savings, on their future. jobs won t save that. we are fine about jobs. anybody feels they can get a job. that s not the issue. 2/3s of americans are having problems paying their bills. no matter what the jobs numbers say, no matter what the white house says, the american people are smart. this is not what their experience is. when 10% of americans are talking about having trouble paying for groceries and having to attempt the grocery shopping left and you have 30% of americans talking about how gas and energy prices are making them make changes in their financial plans and decisions, we have a real problem and it s not changed by a jobs number that looks better and that still we have we have salaries that are not keeping pace with the inflation that we re feeling at
The other number that s coming out today is the 11.5 million unfilled jobs. we do have a surplus of jobs. but if we get another negative growth quarter, that is if we have two quarters back-to-back with growth that s an oxymoron, a contraction of the economy. that s a recession. if that happens, those 11.5 million unfilled jobs will dry up in no time because the company is offering those jobs won t be around. bill: thank you, david. 25 minutes away we ll get another indicator of that. we re on verdict watch in the depp/heard trial. seven member jury resumming deliberations today after submitting a question to the court tuesday that dealt with a headline. mark meredith is watching that live in d.c. with me now. good morning. good morning.
There are millions of people who left the work force because they re afraid of being dead from covid or spreading it. really, this could help the economy. so among these 4 million workers, how does osha enforce something like that? first, the 84 million workers who are in private sector jobs won t be the same 84 million next week or next month. what s the bureaucracy that s required to make sure it s verified that these are the tests and the vaccinations on a schedule that s regular enough it has some effect? i m glad you asked that question. so many people don t understand how osha works. this rule will be primarily self-enforcing. when i speak to employers, and i speak to hundreds of employers, they don t ask how will osha enforce the rule, they ask, how can we comply? employers aren t resisting, they re adapting. that s because most employers want to do the right thing, they want to follow the law, they