and george zimmerman has less than 48 hours to report to jail. this is bad news for his trial. that s all outfront tonight. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, stocks tank. the dow plunged 274 points today. it s the biggest drop since november. it was a really bad day and the reason was a terrible jobs report. usually using adjectives like this are sometimes a bit much for the markets but it s the way it was today. american employers added a meager 69,000 jobs which is about half the number needed just to cokeep up with current population growth. it was the weakest month of hiring for the year and the unemployment rate went up to 8.2%. it was a grim day for the president. today we re still fighting our way back from the worst economic crisis since the great depression. the economy s growing again, but it s not growing as fast as we want it to grow. now, according to bianco research, no president has been re-elected in this country with an unemployment rate this high
i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, stocks tank. the dow plunged 274 points today. it s the biggest drop since november. it was a really bad day and the reason was a terrible jobs report. usually using adjectives like this are sometimes a bit much for the markets but it s the way it was today. american employers added a meager 69,000 jobs which is about half the number needed just to keep up with current population growth. it was the weakest month of hiring for the year and the unemployment rate went up to 8.2%. it was a grim day for the president. today we re still fighting our way back from the worst economic crisis since the great depression. the economy s growing again, but it s not growing as fast as we want it to grow. now, according to bianco research, no president has been re-elected in this country with an unemployment rate this high since the great depression. that was when fdr won and at that time unemployment was 13.7%. what s happening? we went to find out.