competitive edge? now ranking fourth among 139 countries. the world economic forum citing a trillion dollars decifit, public distrust of government, and rising debt as the reasons for that slide. $13 trillion, that s a lot of numbers. good morning, everybody, i m bill hemmer. welcome to america s newsroom . martha: good morning, thank you for starting our morning that way! you don t even get a medal a medal in fourth place! you know who has replaced us? switzerland. i kid you not. bill: not even a bronze. we ve got brand new jobless numbers in, the labor department reporting $451,000 people filed for first-time unemployment claims in the past week. stu varney, fox business network, first the jobs number tells you what? that s a positive number. first time in a long time but it s positive, because it s down 27,000 from the previous week. that was not expected. this could be the start of a new down trend to the number of people going for jobless benefits, down 27,000, stoc