david swenson teaches in the economics department at iowa state university. micheline maynard is senior editor of "changing gears"-- a public radio project on the future of the industrial midwest. well, this bus trip was mostly aimed at rural areas. give us a snapshot of illinois where the president was today. >> well, the economic situation isn't the worst in the great lakes but it's close to the worst in the great lakes. unemployment is over 9%. when the year started, the state had a $13 billion budget deficit. its pensions were under threat and the first thing that happened here was that income taxes were raised. i think what you see is issues in chicago of unemployment in particular. some crime this summer. we have a new mayor, rahm emanuel, who has basically said, look, i'm going to have to cut things and he actually got the unions to come to the able and present their own suggestions. and the rest of the state it's a little better. places like decatur, illinois, which we featured in a report, have seen some hiring going on. it's not as bad in the rural

has returned to the brazilian school for only the second time since missing out on a spot for the swenson finals knowledge of mana been there as a naming the flamingo attacker in his school for a friendly against ghana next month missing the world cup last summer in south africa was a major blow for an old team you have been a somber voice in science in ninety nine november one nil defeat argentino the sole occasion before about barcelona and milan man have been summoned in the past two years. in tennis might be a sort of aiming to become the fourth different russian to win in cincinnati since two thousand and six continues around there the fourth seed has reached the semifinals after a six three six two win over australia and some other stores are following the early exits of carolyn serina williams that also has been. shut out of a has decent chances of claiming her second title of the season meanwhile former chavez and i am not a bit short are also in action later today as well as helium the young coach and in the men's masters world number two are called adult was forced to dig deep i

differently from other countries that went through or rather lucia libya is considered to be the swenson and of the african continent and is very rich and schools are free for the people are hospitals are free for the people and the conditions will give him an a much broader than in other arab countries but it gives a person like us yourself a number of occasions what you think post war and post libya is going to look like you are going to if all television stations are showing people fighting and demonstrating against gadhafi i personally saw many people demonstrating for khadafy i don't know why so many journalists are not showing this or that because they're manipulating the situation into kind of media show these videos on the internet because there is more freedom from what we saw personally when we were in libya and from the documents because we saw the rebels as disorganized groups others other sizzles the people that the rebels coming to power will prefer a continuation of the volatile situation but i believe that the rebels not being able to do a good job after gadhafi among the

won't have enough time to recover by the time the final grand slam of the season kicks off for that swenson ninth of august this year as australian open champion classes was also forced to miss world gold then due to an ankle injury. now in golf jeff quintile mcgeady carded a superb sixty three to sherry one showed me that they went home championship in north carolina both americans were great opening acts by birdies and an eagle for gain enough for a score of seven and on the day we need could boast for hours worth of birdies he had eight on thursday just enough to size only and elsewhere joe if you rick is in a group of time gulf coast to shots behind after guarding a couple of eagles is one of the eighth adding to their efforts on their faith and overall a low scoring day in greensboro with a top thirteen all carding sixty five all this other. years. and now a story of how basketball down to a basket brawl in a friendly game in china this week watch as the visiting university of georgetown to go on the by rockets professional to beijing a very physical match seeing fifty seven foul shots

it's all has repeatedly been all for the salary of around swenson the euro's failure by the big spending russian club. let's move to england now where premier league title hopefuls arsenal and liverpool want had to had it in the pick of saturday's action and after a goal is still. out there reds opened the scoring through aaron ramsay's own goal in the seventy eighth minute then loiseau artists made it to nil and stoppage time giving live of all their first victory at the. eleven the as elsewhere chelsea came back from down against west brom to secure a late victory and then. scoring second health goals for. newcastle that all the road. single goal aston villa were easy when. park rangers beat everton one male and new boys one see held wigan to. moving stateside where i became took part in his first training session after joining the l.a. galaxy earlier in the wake the irish international captain fitting in a few laps before being officially presented to the media and fans after signing from him during his eleven year spell an england team found that one hundred twenty three times which

where the biggest signing in the russian premier league this year looks old but a done deal swenson million dollars is believed to be the figure has offered for chelsea and russia when. the twenty seven year old is believed to have visit the club's training ground with thames on a four year deal now agreed joined russian old chelsea from two years ago versatile player failed to secure a regular place in the starting line up a series of mean juries didn't help new schools either jeez management has declined to comment on the move the sign the side sign brazil's legends are about to call us in february and have been constantly linked with big names throughout this season. in the meantime champions league qualifying is in full swing this week with most of the fixtures due to take place on wednesday but three games are up for grabs later it's a day let's look at the fixtures botted bodies of hosting a goal is to where we could go a cent down so it also ended in a joyous scoring won the last wednesday while copenhagen travelled to shamrock rovers with a victory from the first leg sold the old an