Wow, how beautiful, danilo perez. Thank you for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here. Hinojosa some people might not know your name, but you are a grammy Award Winning musician, composer. You head up the Berklee College of music global jazz institute. Yes. Hinojosa you head up the panamanian jazz festival that you created. You live in boston. Yes. Hinojosa and you give so much back in terms of your music to the world. Its really an honor to have you here. Its my honor, too. Hinojosa when people think about jazz, sometimes they think its a solid american traditional music. You grew up in panama, and in fact, panama and jazz, theres a long history there. I mean, youre panamanian, latin jazz, but this is not new, right . Yes. Actually, there has been a significant contribution from panamanians to jazz, actually. One of them started with luis russell. He made a fantastic contribution with louis armstrong. They made some records. He grew up in panama until he was 17 years old. He won a lot
Wow, how beautiful, danilo perez. Thank you for joining us. Its a pleasure to be here. Hinojosa some people might not know your name, but you are a grammy Award Winning musician, composer. You head up the Berklee College of music global jazz institute. Yes. Hinojosa you head up the panamanian jazz festival that you created. You live in boston. Yes. Hinojosa and you give so much back in terms of your music to the world. Its really an honor to have you here. Its my honor, too. Hinojosa when people think about jazz, sometimes they think its a solid american traditional music. You grew up in panama, and in fact, panama and jazz, theres a long history there. I mean, youre panamanian, latin jazz, but this is not new, right . Yes. Actually, there has been a significant contribution from panamanians to jazz, actually. One of them started with luis russell. He made a fantastic contribution with louis armstrong. They made some records. He grew up in panama until he was 17 years old. He won a lot
State of the american job market. The Unemployment Rate currently stands at 6. 2 , down from a high of 10 back in 2009. Despite making progress, the Federal Reserve chair said there is more that needs to be done. Hampton pearson has more. Reporter the job market is improving, but there is still lots of work to do. Janet yellen called the employment picture hazy, on her short list of concerns, reducing longterm unemployment and increasing the prospects for higher wages for those with jobs. Chair yellen has made it clear, she wants to see wage gains. Until she sees wage gains she wont pull the trigger on raising rates in the economy. Headline unemployment at 6. 2 is down more than a full percentage point in the last 12 months. While the economy has regained the nearly 9 million jobs last since the recession, millions of americans are working for far less money. The two sectors that lost the most jobs, manufacturing and construction, where the average pay is 60,000 a year, are still about
We start tonight with the state of the american job market. The Unemployment Rate currently stands at 6. 2 , down from a high of 10 back in 2009. Despite making progress, the Federal Reserve chair said there is more that needs to be done. Hampton pearson has more. Reporter the job market is improving, but there is still lots of work to do. Janet yellen called the employment picture hazy, on her short list of concerns, reducing longterm unemployment and increasing the prospects for higher wages for those with jobs. Chair yellen has made it clear, she wants to see wage gains. Until she sees wage gains she wont pull the trigger on raising rates in the economy. Headline unemployment at 6. 2 is down more than a full percentage poi in the last 12 months. While the economy has regained the nearly 9 million jobs last since the recession, millions of americans are working for far less money. The two sectors that lost the most jobs, manufacturing and construction, where the average pay is 60,000
We start tonight with the state of the american job market. The Unemployment Rate currently stands at 6. 2 , down from a high of 10 back in 2009. Despite making progress, the Federal Reserve chair said there is more that needs to be done. Hampton pearson has more. Reporter the job market is improving, but there is still lots of work to do. Janet yellen called the employment picture hazy, on her short list of concerns, reducing longterm unemployment and increasing the prospects for higher wages for those with jobs. Chair yellen has made it clear, she wants to see wage gains. Until she sees wage gains she wont pull the trigger on raising rates in the economy. Headline unemployment at 6. 2 is down more than a full percentage poi in the last 12 months. While the economy has regained the nearly 9 million jobs last since the recession, millions of americans are working for far less money. The two sectors that lost the most jobs, manufacturing and construction, where the average pay is 60,000