bob herbert was a rare mainstream journalist to write about this in an op-ed piece, the first 20 didand he did a second one. the first one was called why aren't we shocked? and what mr. herbert said was that if it were any other group, if it had been black people or white people or jewish people or christian people or muslim people, separated out and slaughtered, we would have been in an uproar. but we weren't shocked. nobody noticed. do you know why? because we are so accustomed to violence against women in this country. every year between four and 6 million women are assaulted by their domestic partners. and unless you are a celebrity, like the late swimsuit model jasmine fiori who was murdered by her husband, we don't hear about the three women every single day who were killed in america. and to violence is spreading to teen relationships also. does not just an up tick, according to steve fraser from saint paul minneapolis who works with the family violence unit. we are seeing an uptick that is off the chart. now a lot of people who work with domestic violence victims, blame the r

bob herbert asked in a recent "new york times" column, how loud do alarm bells have to ring?ore than 15 million americans, more than one in 0 people, are out of work -- one in 10 people, are out of work. another 15 million people are underemployed or have quit looking that means that over 30 million americans want to work but cannot find the job they want. more people join their ranks every single day. worse, four in 10 unemployed workers have been jobless for 27 weeks or longer. yes, we have a jobs crisis in our country and it's everybody's number one issue. that's why i joined with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to form the congressional jobs now caucus. to keep the focus where it needs to be. that's why i sponsored bills to create jobs in america, to stem our rising trade deficits, and to bring justice to wall street which has shut down normal lending across this country. contributing to the jobs crisis. job creation is not a republican issue or a democratic issue. we're all in this together. last month toledo, a city i represent, lost an additional 1,200 jobs. adde