A look at the days news and headlines. The average now for 2018, 215,000 a month higher than it was a couple years ago. On the down side, again the number was slightly less than anticipated. Transportation and warehouse was interesting. The monthly was almost 19,000. Last month we lost 1,000 jobs there. It was one of the things that stood out to me. Bill economists and financial people can find something negative in anything. Unemployment is at 3. 9 percent. We havent seen a number like this in 18 years. The real Unemployment Number is more impressive called the u6. It takes into account people working parttime but dont want that. That number dropped from 7. 5. Thats a sharp decline in a long time. Bill 2. 7 higher wages. You want wages to go a bit higher than that. It was the expectation. Another great piece of news, people working parttime for economic reasons because they couldnt find a job, thats dropped by 176,000. 400,000 more people got a job. 100,000 people came into the workfo
reviewing impeaching the president. that is the message she has been trying to send for weeks now. and she has really tried to show they can walk and chew gum at the same time. they ve been focusing on health care and other things, working on trade deals, working on climate. she s showing that there are a lot of people in the house and they can do a lot of things, including hold the president accountable. and that is a message they re going to continue to push. thank you all for playing with us. as we heard from the president now, he heads to london for the nato summit. appreciate it. we re turning to 2020 as well, because even if all eyes on iowa, one candidate is turning his attention elsewhere. how mayor pete buttigieg hopes a southern swing can help him turn things around with a key democratic demographic. but first, check this out. after weeks of demonstrations in iran we re getting new information about what is being called the deadliest political unrest in that country is
ohio, congressional district 12. the republicans balderson and democrat o connor. the latest poll shows a one point district. the president won this district in 2016. the tweet last night. he will campaign hard for a future congressman troy balderson. see you all then. we ll see what happens on tuesday. the polling is tight. i don t know what explains that. is this the flight of suburbanites on the administration? how would you characterize that? there is no question anyone who aligns themselves with the president, he brings a winning message. he is the one who is able to help so many of these individuals, as we know at the end of the day it s because of president trump s policies that we re seeing such success. and i have to tell you, just seeing him in action he is results oriented and why he isn t just going to give up in terms of working on trade deals.