All the big moments and the networks new mission. Welcome back to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is tuesday, august 21st. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Lets start with the latest. Conservative think tanks in the u. S. Senate. United States Senate the latest targets of hackers linked to military intelligence. Microsoft stopped the attack last week. The company took control of six web sites operated by the same group behind the 2016 dnc hack. Lets bring in fred pleitgen. Reporter the organization that were talking about, the Hacking Group, called fancy bear. That is the group that hacked into the dnc and Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016. U. S. Intelligence highly likely believes this group is linked and possibly directed by Russian Military intelligence known as the gru. As far as the organizations and groups targeted by the attack, apparently, parts of the senate and then two think tanks. Hudson institute and International Republican institute. Both critical of President
By Brian Mudd
Today’s entry:
I’ve heard you discuss the negative consequences of extended and supplemental unemployment benefits. Thank you, my business is among the impacted. My question is if we know how many people would likely go back to work if it weren’t for the extended unemployment benefits?
Bottom Line: There’s no way to give you a hard number but I can give you a pretty good idea. According to the last month’s job report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are
9,812,000 people collecting unemployment. Incidentally, despite record job openings being posted and increased job openings due to pandemic restrictions being rolled back in various states, there are 102,000 more people collecting unemployment today than a month ago. The bottom line is that it’s a fact that many have opted to collect unemployment with federal supplemental assistance as opposed to going back to work. This isn’t a surprise, as this phenomenon has played
By Brian Mudd
Mar 8, 2021
This report was a case of a little upside going a long way in terms of economic outlook. In a normal economy adding the number of jobs we did in February would be terrific. With the country still in recovery mode from huge pandemic spikes in unemployment, it s decent. The report provided a big dose of economic optimism on Friday.
First, the headline numbers from the jobs report. The unemployment rate is 6.2% with more than 379,000 jobs. The positive revisions from previous months total to 38,000 jobs.
So, the net number was actually over 400k once you add in revisions from prior months. Incidentally the state which saw the biggest upward revision in jobs was Florida. Our unemployment rate was shown to only be 5.1% entering 2021 after revisions. Governor DeSantis referenced that possibility in his state of the state speech and that’s certainly what happened.