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compromise, or should they stick to their principles and would it be ok if doing so sent us over the fiscal cliff? give us a call this morning. you can also catch up with us on all of your favorite social media websites. a very good morning to you. i want to begin with the question of compromise or sticking to principle. this is a question a gallup organization asked in a recent poll. it found 62% of americans would like to see the federal government leaders compromise on an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff budget measures set to go into effect next month. more than twice the 25% who want leaders to stick to their principles. a majority of all party groups favor compromise. here is the breakdown from the gallup organization. 71% of democrats say they want a compromise bursa s 21% who say the party should stick to their principles. among republicans 55% one compromise. 35% say stick to your principles. the gallup poll also found americans are more optimistic and pessi ....
investments we need to make to train our future work force and to create an environment in which we can care for the elderly. the think americans will remain optimistic but this did of the economy? if we have not tackle the things we have just talked about like the cost of education, the housing market? we are figuring out some philosophical issues about taxing and funding? i think the economy has been growing slowly and steadily all in the absence of any movement, which we have seen over the test of the last year. i have worked on guantanamo for the past 10 years. my sense is that if there is some movement until the positive direction, which have not seen out of washington and enter a long time, in a long time, at least we will not see head winds. we are making some progress. i see that continue. i want to come back to what todd said earlier. i am concerned about confidence being fragile. todd reference what happened until august of 2011. we saw in limited to l ....
the unusual reason people are hunting for buried treasure. good morning. welcome to aljazeera america. i m stephanie sy. a serious case of commuter chaos, bay area rapid transit workers walked off the job, striking for the second time this year. the train shutdown is inconveniencing hundreds of thousands of san francisco area commuters. intense talks between management and employees broke down after the two sides couldn t reach an agreement. we are live in san francisco with more. good morning, lisa. does san francisco have a backup plan for all these commuters, or are people scrambling for rides this morning? good morning, stephanie. well, the backup plan starts here at the bay bridge. most of the 400,000 people who use bart every day to commute to work are expecting to use this bridge. car pooling is encouraged, and there are casual carpools where people jump into cars together and cross this bridge, but certainly this is the most likely place those commuters will ....
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening, everybody, and thanks for watching. the number of americans making new claims for unemployment benefits fell for the first time in a month, down by 31,000. but susie, the overall number of claims is still way too high to describe the report as good news. susie: tom, that comes on top of some dismal reports on the state of the housing market, and a day ahead of what s expected to be a major speech by fed chairman ben bernanke in wyoming tomorrow. everyone s looking to the fed chief for answers on the economy, the stalling recovery, and the labor market. tom: we have two reports tonight looking at jobs, and what bernanke can actually do about the economy. we begin with scott gurvey in new york, who spoke with the head of one of the country s biggest staffing firms. this one is different. it has components of the late ....
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening, everybody, and thanks for watching. the number of americans making new claims for unemployment benefits fell for the first time in a month, down by 31,000. but susie, the overall number of claims is still way too high to describe the report as good news. susie: tom, that comes on top of some dismal reports on the state of the housing market, and a day ahead of what s expected to be a major speech by fed chairman ben bernanke in wyoming tomorrow. everyone s looking to the fed chief for answers on the economy, the stalling recovery, and the labor market. tom: we have two reports tonight looking at jobs, and what bernanke can actually do about the economy. we begin with scott gurvey in new york, who spoke with the head of one of the country s biggest staffing firms. this one is different. it has components of the late ....