i know that the bureau of labor statistics does both of your measures that you measure yourself against, unemployment and inflation. i just want to ask you to continue to pay attention to the way they measure things. the unemployment number does not count the people who have dropped out and are no longer looking for work. it also does not account for underemployed folks. as we go through structural changes in our economy, i'm not asking you to comment. i know you don't do these. but i am worried about the way that they count. i'm also worried about the way they count inflation because when they put together the consumer basket for inflation, the reduction in the prices of housing is masking the massive increases in commodity prices including oil and gas and including food stuffs that people buy at the grocery store. and if you think about the way that people in my district and the rest of this country manage their finances, they lock in long-term rates on their housing through a mortgage or a long-term lease and they have a known amount that they're going to pay which changes only a min

if you look at the federal salary, the bureau of labor statistics data, they show federal employees on average, if you look at tear compensation package, are underpaid by 26%. what's the difference? the difference is the methodology you use. what the bureau of labor statistics, the federal salary council does is look at the responsibilities of the job of a particular federal employee and try to compare that to federal jobs with similar responsibilities. so for example, you have somebody who's been a pediatrician but then goes to work at nih. supervising about 30 or 40 researchers in the area of finding a cures and treatments for cancer. when the folks at the federal salary council look at that, they see not just a solo practitioner pediatrician, they see something who also has responsibility for managing 30 people. it seems to me that's a reasonable distinction to be made. that that person is not just doesn't have comparable pay to a pediatrician but somebody who is also managing people in the private sector. take a simple prison cook. you could say, that person should just receive the

morning host eric bolling steve doocy and gretchen carlson actually suggested that the bureau of labor statistics was cooking the books when it came to the new unemployment figures here's what the talking heads had to say. are they playing around the numbers look it's the bureau of labor statistics it's supposed to be nonpartisan but that's the department of labor hilda solis heads the partner of labor hilda solis works directly for obama you know our goals are kind of what i'm saying there's there's room for error there's room there's a but when you talk about four million people how do you know how do you how do you know how to make it and i don't think anything anyone should be surprised e-mailing us you know your articles french openly suggesting that the obama administration's engaging in a propaganda like campaign just doesn't seem very fair and balanced and the very very ugly u.s. senate candidate pete hoekstra books throws running against incumbent debbie debbie stabenow in michigan or as his campaign calls are spend it now and during last night's super bowl his campaign aired this ad con

they playing around in numbers look it's the bureau of labor statistics it's supposed to be nonpartisan but that's the department of labor hilda solis heads the partner of labor hilda solis works directly for obama you know our voters are kind of saying there's there's room for error there's room there's a but when you talk about four million people how do you know i mean how do you how do you know how to make good and i don't think anything anyone should be surprised you know you are gretchen if they're estimating that number ok so it's interpretation is a way in which we would just look at the books they are really gets me for this conversation is all the hints and innuendo there if you want to come out and say the obama administration is deliberately reporting wrong numbers or reporting the unemployment numbers in a different way than previous months or previous administrations and just come out and say it if there's something else going on here please please just let me in on it now is joe weisenthal the business insider points out they would need to prove quite a large conspiracy n

host: the bureau of labor statistics released numbers. the leisure and hospitality industry gained 40,000 jobs in january. retail trade gained 19,000 jobs. information was down 13,000 jobs. that is one of the few losers we have seen along with government workers. guest: i think it has to do with technology and computers. it is hard to read much into the month-to-month changes beginning to look at trends over long periods of time. you have circumstances where figures have been revised and new benchmarks were introduced. they raise the figures by 163,000. the revisions raised the figures for november and december. an additional 60,000 jobs were created more than thought. in january when you have introduced a new data series, it can be difficult to find in the seasonal adjustment factors. host: dean has stopped looking for work from michigan. caller: a lot of people just do not have a job. a lot are going to social services. they're picking up an income of something to pay their bills. i am going to retire. i have to retire. i cannot get anyt

look at the bureau of labor statistics. people are moved off un. over in the disability set and that throws the numbers out of whack and makes unemployment look like it is going down. don't you understand that. >> and john. the last word. >> sure, it is estimated upwards of 20 percent fraud in the existing medicare . if you want to make the case that this particular entitlement program is fraud-free. i have a number. >> i can't say that you can make the case that there is major fraud to disparage a program that so many rely on >> exactly. relie on? >> in a free economy. cheryl. people help those they want to and it is not government's role to decide who is need yewho is not. >> thank you very much. great discussion. >> coming up. want immediate relief at the pump? put the brakes on the federal gas cap. a new plan in the works but will it work? >> and a new ad, and bite it yeah, baby it is about time . . but why energy? we've got over 100 years worth. is it safe to get it? but what, so we should go broke with imports? look, i'm just saying. well, ene

. >> it's the bureau of labor statistics, but that is the department of labor, and they work directlybama. >> are you saying they are cooking the books? >> i'm saying there is room for error. >> i don't think anybody should be surprised in an election year. >> joining me as promised jerry springer. good to see you, sir. thanks for having me. >> have you recovered from your appearance? >> i walked right into it. and we were talking about the cover of news week magazine several weeks ago. the article is by andrew sullivan conservative writer and clearly i was a provacative headline and it was tilted towards being for obama. he even said i have a bias toward obama. so they asked me what do you think about this they are being biased? and i said yeah probably a little bit to the left but i said we're sitting here on fox news and you bash busch every single day -- excuse me they bash obama every single day. i shouldn't win a pulletzer prize for that. >> do we have any incite -- we know why the people in charge of this do that. it is a litmus test so you can throw everything else out. and th

it's the bureau of labor statistics. osed to be nonpartisan but that's the department of labor. hilda solis heads the department of labor. >> are you saying they are cooking the books? >> i'm saying there's room for error. >> what's happening is the labor force is shrinking. there are fewer jobs. >> so it's interpretation, i think is the way in which we would describe. >> are you hearing me on this? >> it is corrupt as it can be. >> okay. there's a million less people than we thought working which some have said, that's kind of fishy. >> so because the numbers look good, you think they're fishy. and they are cooking the books. and the conservative blogs are running with the same theory. saying there was actually bad news on the job front. i guess we have two choices. we can trust limbaugh and the gang at "fox and friends" or get a second opinion. first off, the bureau of labor statistics is using updated census numbers. nobel prize winner paul krugman says the right's trotting out the same old bogosity. "the wall street j

the bureau of labor statistics projects that the u.s. ore than 20 million new jobs between 2010 and 2020. what type of jobs are being created? many of the fastest growing occupations fall into the low wage, low skill category. richard is a professor at the university of toronto's school of management. also senior editor at the atlantic. welcome back to the show. you say the only solution is to turn low-wage jobs into higher wage jobs, which sounds like a great solution. how do you do such a thing? >> well, you know, ali, of those 20 million jobs we're going to create according to the u.s. labor department out to 2020, which is a good thing, it's going to replace many of the jobs we lost, but half of those jobs are what we call low wage, low skill service jobs. they're in personal and home health care, the people who take care of us and our aging parents or take care of our kids. they're in retail sales. they're in food service and preparation. and the conversation in america is twofold right now. we have to create more knowledge jobs and

the bureau of labor statistics predicts demand for these jobs will increase 20% over the next 20 years because of new government requirements. as a result, hospitals and medical service providers are scrambling to find these skilled health care professionals. diane eastabrook found a chicaco-based firm that's going as far as to train potential coders itself. >> okay, 806.3 is fracture of the cervical vertical column from c1 through c4. >> reporter: what looks like a college anatomy class is actually a medical coding class at accretive health in chicago. accretive is training hundreds of coders and billers who can translate diagnostic information from medical providers for insurance claims. they're high-demand jobs and ones hospitals are increasingly outsourcing to companies like accretive because of coming changes in government regulation. >> it's gonna be close to our "encyclopedia britannica." >> reporter: the change says accretive's duane lisowksi will expand the number of diagnostic codes in this book from 13,000 to nearly 70,000. >> for example, the initial code here is accident.

from the bureau of labor statist statistics. it shows steep job losses under president george w. bush right there in the red. and shown here in the red. once barack obama became president, the chart turns blue. look at it. see it begins to show reverse and eventually job losses become job gains above that line there. we all learned to read those graphs in school. the stuff above means it's shooting up positive. underscoring the point the economy has steadily improved. the economy steadily improved under obama. a bloomberg report shows the economies of michigan, indiana, ohio and pennsylvania have improved faster than the rest of the country since the recession began in april of 2009 until the end of 2011. some of those, by the way, some of those are in what i call the scranton to oshkosh corridor. the sensitive blue collar part of the country where people depend on the accordion industries. they go in and out. they hire and then lay off people. hire, lay off. everybody's very sensitive. where there are lay-offs, where people are hiring. >> two things come to mind. the first is, d

according to the bureau of labor statistics there are six, six measures of unemployment in america.f those called u-3 says 8.3% of workers are unemployed. but u-6 says the number of american workers who are under employed or given up looking for work who is now at 15%. that's huge. class of people includes discouraged workers and part-time people mitt romney addressed it. >> this week he has been trying to take a vow for 8.3% unemployment. not so fast, mr. president. this is the 36th straight month with unemployment above the red line. your own administration drew. and if you take into account all the people who are struggling for work or have just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15%. >> to be fair, the u-3 number 8.3 is the lowest in three years. check 2 tonight. pbs begin as two-part series on president bill clinton with a heavy monica lewenski component. >> when the lewenski scandal broke the president paged me and i returned the call. he said ever since i got here to the white house i have had to shut my body down sexually, i mean. but i screwed up with this

bureau of labor statistics who are notoriously incorrect and false in their reporting to begin with the but here you have a situation of more quantitative easing which is more debt which means that the british economy will contract it's going to contract because you're adding more debt but they don't want to call it debt they call it. money they call it's equity where it's just more debt so it's a psychotic a suicide mission you know. this country needs you know what this world needs weaving me remake that movie charles bronson deathwish with a guy a vigilante who goes after bankers that would be a fantastic movie and i wouldn't put myself forward as a storing in that film and being the charles bronson character hollywood call me i'm going to do this film for scale oh i think it's coming out of the black hole that facts are g.v. after he has come up with the film just like that here's a little clip of you confronting timmy g. hankie p. we're going to going her thing there it is. you're your story. though so i agreed. to do many. yes ok that was charles bronson and a sergio leone western

of course the numbers are constructed by the bureau of labor statistics, not the fed. they are done in a serious, thoughtful way. on alternative currencies, nobody prevents you from holding silver or gold if you want to. it's legal to do that. it's also fine to hold other currencies. euro or yen or whatever else. in that respect you can do it. i would be happy to talk to you about -- >> that's not money. when you pay taxes to buy a coin or you have capital gains tax. if you have to settle a lawsuit it's never never settled in the real contract. when it's illegal to use it. but to do it you have to repeal the legal tender laws, legalize this, get over the sales taxes. get rid of the capital gains taxes. even in mexico they are trying to have competing currencies. they have been wiped out many times with inflation wiping out the middle class. they are allowing people to save in a silver currency. i hope we move along in that direction. there shouldn't be an overwhelming change all of the sudden that there could be a transition. >> i would be happy to talk about it. >> th

we know according to the bureau of labor statistics without a high school degree, experience -- people without the unemployment rate is 50% greater than those with only a high school degree and those without a high school degree have been particularly hard hit over the last few years. a couple of my colleagues in the senate reflected on that and continued to have a far lower labor force rate compared to other educated levels that ranged from 60% to 70%. if we can help people get a degree, they have a better chance of getting a job. and if we can work with them so that they can pass a drug screening then if they get offer a job, they get a chance to get that job. because that's really the heart of the matter here, is getting people back to work. now, i have heard that just today that if extending unemployment is some sort of economic growth model, putting money into the pockets of those who are unemployed they'll spend it. it will help. but i have heard a ratio of $1 to $2. and everybody who spoke it got less and less. so i think we have to agree this recovery stinks. we can do better.

today, the bureau of labor statistics handed hip the best news he's had in months. 243,000 new jobs in january. 16 months of job growth. five straight months of unemployment decline. you can almost hear the sigh of relief coming from the obama white house. >> altogether, we've added 3.7 million new jobs over the last 23 months. now, these numbers will go up and down in the coming months. and there are still far too many americans who need a job or need a job that pays better than the one they have now. but the economy is growing stronger. gwen: so let start there. the president said at the state of the youtube and said today things -- of the union and said today things are getting stronger, is it as rosy as it looks? >> get news, unemployment is down to 8.3% and we're adding a lot of private sector jobs in areas where the underlying data are very good. manufacturing looks very good. and the job growth is very good. services look very good. and the job growth is good. this is all really good news. now the bad news. 12.8 million americans looking for a job and can't find one and the econ

the bureau of labor statistics says the number of people working in residential remodeling grew 6% ino a year ago. a survey found more than half of workers interviewed say involvement in all this politics is at least somewhat necessary to get ahead. try not to get pulled into situations that could compromise your working relationship or your reputation, though. more evidence that facebook could be used as a job training tool. a study found that there was a strong correlation between job performance and facebook profiles. student profiles of those that seemed well-traveled, had a- couch, and wide range of interests helped. even the party photographs of you in college might not be so well making use seem extroverted and friendly. linda bell reporting for abc 7 news. >> party photographs may not be so bad. >> but don't get too friendly in your photographs. >> it's a fine line. if we are giving you another chance to win an ipad 2. >> very simple. go to [unintelligible] -- go to wjla.com/facebook. we will announce the winner on friday. >> we want to look at the forecast. what do we expect

according to the bureau of labor statistics it is the second lowest level since 2008. oyers added 243,000 jobs in january. >> speaking of jobs, where are some of the best places to work in our area? "baltimore magazine" has a list. ken inglehart is here from "baltimore magazine." how did you guys find these spots? >> we searched about six months. we were looking. every year people nominate themselves on our web site during this process and we research them and see about their financial health and we interview their employees. we look at have there been any layoffs that are significant in the past year? do they have any f.c.c. problems? probably the most important thing is what the employees think about working there. then we look at their benefits. >> so mount washington pediatric hospital. >> it is a great choice. it is not a huge hospital. it is uniquely owned by the university of maryland, which is unusual. those are the two 800-pound gorillas that usually compete. they cooperated on this hospital. you could have everything from being a drug-addicted baby to very ser