John we are tracking President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Movement as they visit some of the communities hardest hit by Hurricane Helene. President biden will take an aerial tour in western North Carolina. He just touched down. And in moments we do expect Vice President harris to land in georgia, where she will survey damage there. A couple days after former President Trump did. Im John Roberts in washington. Good happy with us today. Gillian things for having me. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Towns in North Carolina completely unrecognizable. Especially the western part of the state. Asheville Mayor R faced of their resources. The pictures you can see right there on your screen proved that is the case. Emergency crews are working to reach the isolated communities that have been devastated by catastrophic flooding. Residents there are heartbroken, desperately pleading for help. There has been landslides. Our valley got wiped out. They had to rescue people, the Nati
that year, america began to gain jobs. a painfully slow, but steady job recovery has now taken hold for the last 18 months. and here is the key, if you want to bring it back to politics. if the economy adds just over 100,000 jobs per month between now and the election, america will have gained back every single job lost during the obama presidency. north zuckerman is the editor in chief of u.s. news & world report. he s also an extremely wealthy and successful democratic businessman. and he wrote this week, president obama s economic programs have failed. mort, the economy is on pace, as you saw, to get back every job lost under president obama, about a recession that he didn t start. why? why are you saying it s failed? let me put it this way. in the first place, those numbers are slightly misleading. we need 125,000 to 150,000 jobs every month just to take into account the new people coming into the labor force. absolutely, but that s not the criticism. i haven t fi
the folks at the brookings tax policy center helped us put this together. these different groups of popcorn represent your income level. the bigger the bag, the bigger the income level of the group we re talking about. i want to use the popcorn to demonstrate how much of the total pie, how much of the total tax revenue is generated by each group. let s start over here with the little one. these are people who earn less than $30,000 a year. that, by the way, is about 44.8% of all households in the united states. they don t pay a lot in income tax. in fact, generally speaking they get back 4.8%. i m going to put a few kernels into their pot because they are not paying taxes. let s look at another group. this bag represents people who earn between $30 and $100,000 a year. that s about 40% of households in the united states. this group represents a contribution of 18%. 18% of the total personal tax revenues come from here. i m going to put about two handfuls of popcorn in the bow
determines their success in life. then we ll have a bunch of people sitting on a couch waiting for the next government check. that s new jersey s governor chris christie. he s endorsed governor mitt romney for president. who knows, the two could be running together against president obama in the fall if romney taps christie to be his vice presidential candidate. threats to hard work is hardly a new issue for president obama either. it was a central team in the kansas speech the president used to lay out his economic agenda at the end of last year. listen. for most americans the basic bargain that made this country great has eroded. long before the recession hit, hard work stopped paying off for too many people. fewer and fewer of the folks who contributed to the success of our economy actually benefited from that success. now, the president is referring to the wealthy when he talks about those precious few who are seeing the benefits of this economy. stephen moore an ed
believe this is a place where only their willingness to work hard and to act with honor and integrity and ingenuity determines their success in life. then we ll have a bunch of people sitting on a couch waiting for the next government check. that s new jersey s governor chris christie. he s endorsed governor mitt romney for president. who knows, the two could be running against president obama in the fall if romney taps christie to be his vice presidential candidate. threats to hard work is hardly a new issue for president obama either. it was a central team in the kansas speech he used to lay out his economic agenda at the end of last year. listen. for most americans the basic bargain that made this country great has eroded. long before the recession hit, hard work topped paying off for too many people. fewer and fewer of the folks who contributed to the success of our economy actually benefited from that success. now, the president is referring to the wealthy when he