Primary. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im richelle carey. A very rough start for stocks today as traders cling to the negative aspect of a mixed unemployment report. You can see things changes as we speak. Our economics correspondent patric patric Patricia Sabga is here. This is definitely a mixed bag, and one thing we should also state, richelle is that right now the markets are tending to really focus on the negative. The headline number, the economy added 151,000 jobs last month. That was below what a lot of economists were looking for. On the bright side, though, the Unemployment Rate went down to 4. 9 , and another positive in the report was the Labor Force Participation rate. Thats the number of people either looking for work or have a job. That went up. So that is a positive sign. Another positive sign was average hourly wages. They had a real healthy bump. So this is a very, very good thing, because we have been wanting wages to pick up. But of course, the
The American Enterprise institute beginning at 1 30 p. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies this 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host and best selling author tom standage has a new book out, and its called writing on the wall. Tom standage, what do cicero and twitter have in common . Guest well, the idea of the book is that social media is a very old idea. We think that its recent and only people alive today have ever done it. But really what im arguing is theres a very long and rich tradition of social media that goes back to the era of cicero, so thats the First Century b. C. , and the point is that you dont need a Digital Network to do social media. If you have one, it goes faster, but you could actually do it in the old days. Cicero did it with papyrus rolls and ore members other members of the roman elites were linked to him and all spoke to each other, and its very much a social environment. But there are many
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