in addition to information security, the bureau of labor statistics updated its list of promising job fields--nearly half of them in health care, such as nurses who administer anesthesia and phlebotomists, technicians who draw blood, not necessarily in a hospital or doctor's office. "i think if you add phlebotomists, its a lower- paying position but could do it at a walgreens or cvs without them having to hire a full-time nurse to provide treatment to consumers." rounding out the list, genetic counselors, alternative energy, such as wind turbine or solar panel technicians, despite the present supply of oil and natural gas, fund-raisers, particularly for nonprofits, and health benefits analysts, "the hr person who can explain to the cfo what costs the company will incur when the subsidies run out will be very valuable. we've been hired to do that for some clients and it's hard to make truly accurate projections." the complete occupational outlook handbook for 20-14 and 2015 is available online at b- l-s-dot-gov-backslash-o-o-h.it includes 580-detailed occupations, eduction and training

government imloas employee where they have been shrinking. >> yes. >> julie hatch division chief bureau of labor statistics. good of you to join us tonight. >> thank you. >> coming up. have you heard of that online currency, called bitcoin? we'll explain what it is and why it's not the only game in town. >>> if you think pay is astronomical, wait until you see what pro bowl college presidents are making. ahead on "real money". >> an exclusive "america tonight" investigative series >> we traveled here to japan to find out what's really happening at fukushima daiich >> three years after the nucular disaster, the hidden truth about the ongoing cleanup efforts and how the fallout could effect the safety of americans >> are dangerous amounts of radioactive water, leaking into the pacific eververyday? >> join america tonight's michael okwu for an exclusive four part series, as we return to fukushima only on al jazeera america >> americans shopped online in december for more than just holiday gifts. health insurance also scored big after troubled start, 975,000 people bought health plans on the federal exchange i

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the head of the bureau of labor statistics testified about the december jobs report at the hearing of the joint economic committee. this is an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >>> good morning. vice chair klobuchar, members of the committee. good morning and welcome to theo new year. wel this is commissioner's first appearance before the joint economic committee on behalf oye millions of americans who cannot yet find jobs that are hopeful. . we hope you can bring us better news for the future. i would like to recognize tom nordel who is retiring after 37 years of service. he has been mr. numbers. we thank you for your dedicated service and wish you the best in your future endeavors. the job growth was weak last month. december saw only 87,000 private sector. the unemployment rate did fall to 6.7 percent but it was due to labor force participation. the precipitation rate is down to 62.8% tying a 36-year low. it sounds impressive 8.2 million private sector jobs over the last 46 months but economic growth during the last half century has been 50% larger than the

the: kristina bartsch, from bureau of labor statistics. cupations projected to add the most jobs typically need a high school diploma or less. host: can you give us an example of a bachelors degree job and then a high school diploma or equivalent or less job? guest: yes. an occupation that requires a bachelor degree for entry would be engineers, for example. in terms of high school diploma or equivalent and the less than high school, occupations like childcare workers, construction laborers, retail sales workers, cashiers, waiters and waitresses. the home health aides and the personal care aides that are in demand, expected to grow quickly but also very large will add a lot of jobs. host: christopher rugaber, post secondary non-degree award positions, 1.3 million. isn't this what the president was talking about yesterday? guest: yes. that is your community college and associate degrees, the vocational but higher skilled and manufacturing. with machines and robotics on most factory floors, and a lot of those workers will need something beyon

bureau of labor statistics looking as the pension and benefits.o the middle class? 1.9 million jobs that are held up by bureaucratic red tape in the energy industry alone. those pay $90,000 a year. those jobs don't exist because of what obama has done with the epa and others. >> i just want to say a word. when you say public lee employee, the answer is basically school teachers. people with college degrees. once you take that into account, there is no pay gap. it's all a figment of your page nation. >> mayor, you're in a city where people are struggling, where -- you're trying to grow the middle class. >> it reminds me how out of touch the inner beltway is. when you look at this is the richest congress we've had. the thought they can continue to operate without getting anything done, it doesn't surprise me that the president is looking to do more executive orders and looking for mayors. you just had the information about the income inequality and where those individuals live. the metro economies are responsible for over 90% of the country's gdp. o

these stats from the bureau of labor statistics shows that workers are jobs less frequently than in the past. and this trend of staying put could be impacting the economy in all kinds of ways. joining me now, the senior business correspondent. in what ways? >> well, first of all, let's take a look at what is happening with why people are not moving. and it is very simple. you move because there's opportunity. move because there might be job security or a better wage somewhere else. there isn't. there is just a lack of opportunity. people don't want to stay in their jobs right now them don't feel valued. a third of workers don't feel valued. they have long commutes. but there is nowhere to go. >> so the job hopping that went on before, is that, by the way, necessarily a good or bad thing? >> it is a good thing for the economy. it is called a churn rate. how many people see opportunity and move to new jobs. right now we're at about 25%. that's not bad for the entire world looking at the entire world. but for a recovery, very, very low. >> people are hanging on to the old jobs. a lot of pe

job growth has slowed according to bureau of labor statistics and 1.5% growth rate which is close to the national average. there has been a slowdown in the strong rebound we had in 2012. but we think things are looking up. one of the key factors is the u.s. consumer and consumer looking very, very strong. we're expecting more job growth, more real income growth. that's part of the reason why or getting this debate about google buses and everything else. the gains haven't been evenly distributed. real wage growth has been flat to down. and a lot of people don't feel we're out of recession yet and it's still an issue. if we get better job growth, some of the gains will go to more people. >> sneak one in real quick. >> at what point do you worry it might reduce the growth? that people will have trouble moving here. >> i do worry about that. we saw that in 2005 and 2006 when it is worse than it is today. a lot of people at least domestic migrants couldn't afford the market. if that were to happen, your long term growth rate could slow. >> scott anderson, a economist without a house and we

the bureau of labor statistics define them as people out of work for 27 weeks or more, but very, very key here, they are still actively looking for work. now, right now in america, let me just run some of the numbers for you, but as i do, keep in mind that these are people, these are lives, these are people with families to support, with hopes and dreams. 3.9 million people in the united states right now count as long-term unemployed, out of work for more than half a year. now, in december, that accounted for 37.7% of all the unemployed in america. and this is really going to drive home and put this in to perspective for you. before the great recession, the share of jobless who were long-term unemployed at its peak was in 1983, it was 26%. okay? so let's take a look at that, in december it's 371st. 37%, 8526%, this says so much about how acute the problem still is in the united states for the long term unemployed. because back in 1983, the average amount of time that the people were out of work was about 21 weeks, today it's double that. so this is a very, very deep and pressing probl

is and look you know this is ministration has been known to play fast and loose with the bureau of labor statistics unemployment data they did it before the two thousand and twelve presidential election what makes you think they're not doing it now so the fact of the matter is this is horrible news and this is on president obama's watch and he needs to own up to it well and that's that's the republican strategy is make the economy suck and then blame it on obama to say exactly what you just said in my piece in the call right and i don't disagree with you tom i mean we have a congress that has been totally struction as during this entire time since president obama has been elected it hasn't they haven't had hardly any bill to try to address the economy they're so busy trying to you know make sure that we're going to cut welfare we're going to the security we're going to continue to cut and . i don't but not doing anything that's wanted then you're late the economy you know the president has put forth a budget and congress the republican led congress won't even think about entertainment yet this is t

get us through these tough times you know i mean you look first of all numbers from the bureau of labor statistics are soft til the next month we don't understand you know but you know a lot of the time it's not just people dropping off the rolls some people been unemployed so long that they are now eligible for social security they aged out some people say they're not looking for a job anymore but i think it's a political issue for the democrats this is one thing that they are going to run on an income inequality and they are going to run on the shrinking middle class and a lot of policies and i do think they risk to some degree with people whether they're highly partisan or not saying look you're coming off a two term presidency you're going in you want you know obviously four more years for a democrat and at some point we have to point blame the president if things are still bad in recovery hasn't work now whether we can articulate that it's the fault of the other party or congress whoever that is i think the perception from some people the american public specially moderates independents will

pretty good for the overall economy and that might very well be reinforced when we get the bureau of labor statistics numbers out what it a few hours. > > definitely layoffs are a good indicator of what's happening down the road- six to 12 months down the road. > > jim patterson from challenger gray and christmas, thanks so much. > > thank you very much. thank you bill! coming up.... what led shares of one pharma stock to quadruple this week? find out in chart talk. and.. something special is in the air..as our traders attempt to make money on marijunana. keep it here... you are in for a treat today.. joining us from the floor of cme group... for traders unplugged alan knuckman and james ramelli. ready to rumble on our show. good morning guys. let's start with a new gold standard. gold had a deficit last year. so what gives with gold? alan: first time in 13 years that gold is actually negative on the season. i liked it last summer, i liked it last fall, i like it even better now. swiss national bank lost $10 billion because they didn't hedge their gold position which i think number one is stupid, but

[applause] >> the bureau of labor statistics released the december 2013 jobs report today. the unemployment rate fell to 6.7%. the economy added 74,000 jobs. the new head of the bureau of labor statistics spoke about the report during today's meeting at the joint economic committee. here is a look. >> thank you commissioner. as you know, the unemployment rate fell pretty dramatically. would you describe this as an encouraging sign of a sustainable recovery? number,month's of course you do not want to hang too much on one particular number. most of the change in the due toyment rate was falling labor force participation. >> people simply giving up on the market and the workforce? >> the interesting thing is that when we looked at it, it look like most of these flows in nonparticipation were from employment, rather than unemployment. generally speaking, it is not a robust sign. the fall of unemployment should have come from the creation of jobs. >> that dropping the reasons for it, is it a troubling indicator? >> it depends on the question you are asking. it is really not a si

the bureau of labor statistics has been keeping track of rental costs since at least one thousand nine hundred three now its index shows a steady rise of about three percent a year over this thirty year period now rental should track the inflation rate home prices should do the same and if price or price rises much of the end of price rises raises the price goes much above the rental rate families theoretically should begin to rent not buy their forgot their housing bubbles that become visible and can legitimately be called bubbles now when housing prices diverged significantly from rental prices that's when called bubbles almost everyone understands that the two thousand and seven financial crisis was caused by the collapse of the housing bubble it turned out to mr harrison while it might not seem like it on the surface housing is one complicated asset of the economy are we on the verge of the next housing bubble today not at all because if you look at the numbers and i think what you'll see is that we had. to in the during the house the actual housing bubble but then we had a massive

i accept your notion that it's not necessarily where you're going with the bureau of labor statistics. as an economist you must have an opinion about that. would you like to talk about that? maybe not? >> well, so i have to, you know, write now my job is as commissioner. i think it's most important uphold the principles and practices of statistical agencies. i can't talk about where growth has been occurring. and what we've seen in terms of industry wage growth, is that much of the growth in when you divide it up by broad industries. much of the wage growth has been in the lower wage industries. when you divide it up by occupations, which is a different kind of way to divide up job growth, there you see growth in highway -- more growth in high wage occupations and low wage occupations than you see in the middle of the distribution. >> thank you. i yield back. >> can i ask one question. in your testimony, you said that the employment rate -- or labor participation rate was principally due not to people dropping out but leaving jobs. and his question was, you know, in the growth industr

head of the bureau of labor statistics testified that rate was a the the t of americans leaving workforce and the county would level ts pre recession before the middle of this year. good morning, everyone. dvice chair and members of the committee and welcome to the new year. his is commissioner's first appearance before the joint economic committee. on behalf of millions of mericans who cannot find jobs and are hopeful we hope you bring us better news in the future. i like to recognize the gentleman retiring from bureau labor statistics for 37 years of numbers. he's been mr. numbers over the last several years. e thank you for your dedicated service and is wish you the very est in your future endeavors which by the way sounds wounderful. was weak job growth last month. 87,000 private seccer jobs and 74,000 non farm jobs. 6.7% oyment did fall to but it was largely due to labor force participation. more than half a million market s left the labor last month. they tied a 36 year low. impressive to u.s. economy economic growth century hasast half been 50% larger than the obama recovery. s a r

you know, the bureau of labor statistics has this figure that it calculates. it's called the labor participation rate. you can google bureau of labor statistics or labor participation rate. what you'll find there is the percentage of people between the age of 25 and 54 who are actually actively engaged in looking for work is lower today than it was at the height of the recession in 2008. and another 347,000 people dropped out of the workforce in december alone. i know when we look at the unemployment rates that are released from time to time, we see the rate coming down a little bit, and we say well, oh, that's great. the unemployment rate's coming down. but the problem is in december alone, almost 350,000 people quit looking for work. they gave up. and we know that nearly four million people who are still looking for work have been out of a job for more than six months. well, that's not an economy to be proud of. let me just contrast that with what happened in the 1980's during the reagan recovery. you know, typically what economists will tell you is that when

this is from the bureau of labor statistics. e crashing red line is basically what just happened when we cut off benefits for the long-term unemployed. what that basically means is the percent of people who are out of work getting covered by some benefits has crashed. these people are suffering more. what do you make of that and what are you telling your constituents? >> it will an adverse impact on the economy. it could cost us about 240,000 jobs that will not be created. you hurt the broader economy because you lowered demand. it reduces economic activity. the loss of economic activity hurts the economy. >> are you in a wait and see mode? >> we are, but we're troubled by the allegations and the information that's come forth. christie referred to state legislators as animals. that's problematic. >> thank you very much congressman for your time today. >>> today's top lines are coming up. we continue to sift through all of those new documents. stay with us. s! sorry we're late. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the

according to the bureau of labor statistics. why so many unfilled jobs? part of the problem, some analysts say, is geography. >> you can have a whole bunch of unemployed people in say, nevada, a state with a high unemployment rate. but the jobs may be in somewhere like, you know, say massachusetts or d.c., where we have a relatively low unemployment rate. >> in addition, there can be intense competition for the jobs that are available. >> right now, there are nearly three unemployed for every job opening. >> but mostly, as congress debates extending unemployment insurance again, experts say the problem is a weak economy. >> businesses are recruiting much less intensely than before, because they're not sure where the economy is going. they don't want to commit to hiring a full-time worker if sales aren't going to hold up. if it's not going to be a good investment for the company. >> he also said even if president obama who decided a year ago to allow his jobs council to expire, were presiding over a healthy economy, there still would be millions of unfill e

and about two out of three people the bureau of labor statistics says the industrial workers who getu want to do something about this economy growing and wage inequality? then you have to stop sending our jobs overseas. >> and that is a fight about jobs in american and a pro american trade policy that will create jobs here there are tremendous forces on any president by very large investors and multinational corporations to move jobs to very low wage environments where there are no environmental standards. >> they call them emerging markets. >> yes, emerging markets. they come in with these neat little cliches and an emerging market is where you can find somebody that will work for nothing. >> that's right. and we've heard regarding vietnam, i've seen children spraying lacquer and sanding bowls. and i don't think they make 28 cents an hour. it was appalling to me. and so we as a group are fighting for labor standards and environmental standards in these agreements so that, in fact, our country which wants a middle class and wants a higher standard of living can create those jobs here

the bureau of labor statistics report shows that the disappointing 74,000 net jobs added in december,w their ranks dizzy pleated by 1,000. that's where the good news for women ends, because most jobs were gained in low-wage sectors -- retail, leash, hospitality. >> women do nearly two out of three minimum wage jobs. all this week we've been examination the shriver report which details the financial struggles of millions of women, one in three living in or near poverty. joining mess is a member of the city council in eau claire, wisconsin, who contributed to the shriver report. good morning. >> good morning. >>> you wrote an eisai aboessay that you wrote. >> i went through an unexpected divorce. while my ex-husband remained a very loving father to our daughter and paid child support and alimony and worked very hard, i did live under the poverty level with my daughter. the two of us had under $13,000 of income a year, and so that put us under the poverty level. i looked at this moment of time in my life as a cross roads of what do i do? do i get four jobs to make ends meet? at the time

figures from the bureau of labor statistics show union representation in california dropped from 17.2%2012 to 16.4% in 2013. across the country the rate of union representation held steady last year at around 11%. compare that, though to, 1983 when the rate was over 20%. >>> republican leaders meet in washington d.c. today and made some rule changes for the 2016 presidential election that could significantly alter the pace of the campaign. the new rules will stiffen penalties for states that hold primaries or caucuses earlier than approved by the national republican party. they also forbid winner take all contests in which one candidate gets all the delegate votes in. addition, the republican nominating convention will move to early summer which will allow the nominees to spend general election money sooner. >>> apple's macintosh computer celebrates its 30th birthday today. steve jobs introduced the apple at an apple stockholder meeting in cupertino. it was the first widely available computer with the mouse. it had a graphical user interface and 9-inch screen. the original version had

rate is pretty well at a historic low, and if we took that into consideration based on the bureau of labor statistics, the actual unemployment rate would be closer, someplace between 10 and 11, closer to 11%. i want to talk about that in the context of the jobs that you've said have been created through merchandise retail, wholesale, service-oriented jobs. and relate that back to what senator klobuchar talked about which is something that is generally referred to as a skills gap. do you have of an idea of what that looks like in the real world? we talked about our lack of capacity to provide people to the employment that's available that are higher, more technologically-oriented jobs and what that means and what we should be doing differently than we are. >> if you could hit the microphone, please. >> sorry. [laughter] you're getting really into the realm of policy right here, and here i want to remind you that the bls and other statistical agencies don't engage in policy analysis. with all due respect, that's your job. >> right. [laughter] >> we, in particular we don't study and make determinations

according to the bureau of labor statistics, we have 27 million, 27 1/2 million part-time jobs. on top of which we have roughly 13 million people who are either out of work or given up looking for work. so you have 40 million people who are in very weak economic conditions. the part-time jobs are counted as part of our full-time jobs. melissa: right. >> we never had that kind of period of part-time jobs. those are very low-paying jobs. people can not have an acceptable life on that kind of an income. so it's a real issue. the jobs are issue, rather than the income that goes with those jobs. melissa: sounds like you're saying rather than focusing on an idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, we have to focus creating full-time jobs and getting salary and earning more money? how do you do that? you created so many jobs in your lifetime. why are they being created right now? >> you have to understand, this is an economy that is very weak. that has been weak for the last four or five years. that is in fact the weakest economy, four years coming out of recession that we've ha

according to the bureau of labor statistics, listen to this, texas created 274,000 new jobs from novemberber 2013. almost 50,000 more than california, a state with much higher population and the largest sectors of growth, listen. >> trade and transportation. business and financial services. leisure and hospitality. they far outweigh the number of jobs created in the energy sector. >> unemployment national average is 6.% according to numbers out today because fewer people are seeking work we know but here in the lonestar state, unemployment it is at 6.1% compared to california's 8.3. dozens and dozens of companies can be thanked for success in texas like motorola, for example. it opened a brand new plant in fort worth, you may remember last year where they're building the moto x, the first smartphone ever to be assembled entirely in the united states. it added more than 2,000 new jobs here. >> it is in a free trade zone. we can bring product outside u.s. it is close to the mexican border. we do repair operations in mexico. it is close to carrier customers so we can get product quickly to t

well, according to the bureau of labor statistics, recent college grads and older americans. that's two key housing components. first time home buyers and downsizing baby boomers. now they're stuck. second is wage growth. it came in at 1.8% for 2013, below the rate of inflation. so let's call that wage stagnation, shall we? again, a problem for the first time buyers, because they can't save enough for a down payment and for current homeowners who might have wanted to move up, they can forget it. finally, millenials. again, the first time buyers. their employment rate rose very slightly, just over 75% of them are employed but that should be closer to 80%. finally, today's jobs report answers a question i have been wondering about for a couple days. realty track earlier this week said the number of homes in the foreclosure process that have home equity jumped from 24% to 31% last fall. so why aren't these 31% of borrowers refinancing to lower rates or getting a loan modification? probably because most of them don't have a job or a job that pays enough to keep their home. why no

well, you know, i do rely on data and the key part of the data is the bureau of labor statistics. i realize that one is a survey of companies across the country. the survey covers roughly one third of the job base. every year that survey benchmarks the employment count, so we have a very good accounting of almost all the jobs in this country once he year. in fact, we will get that data next month. producing morere jobs. as i mentioned, earlier, in 2014 we created 2 million jobs. jobs perbout 200,000 month. in normal times, if unemployment were lower, that would be considered to be very good. that is incredibly strong job growth. it is, of course, quite disappointing in the current context. unemployment is still very high. it undercuts the trust out there, you have a lot of underemployed and discouraged were -- discouraged workers. we are creating jobs. the job market is picking up. having said that, it is not the case for everyone. it is not the case for every community across the country or every industry. i missed where the caller was are some verye hard-pressed regions of the co

when you look at the number of people who are not in the labour force according to the bureau of labor statistics job. i think maybe you are making too much of that. dennis: what percentage want a job? >> 5% of the people who are currently out of the labor force indicated they want a job. dennis: let's go ahead and extend those 99 years long-term jobless benefits to encourage people to get more work. >> what is the question? are you saying if we extend unemployment benefits is that going to have a negative economic impact? i don't think so. i think there is as much damage that occurs out there if people are unable to buy food and pay for shelter and rent as if we don't give them that money. dennis: the government multiplier affect. thank you for being with us today. nice job, good weekend. stocks under pressure after the dismal jobs report. nicole petallides at stock exchange. nicole: i hear you when you say my name. let's talk about dow jones industrials down 51 points. jobs report came in, fewer jobs than expected is an understatement, 40,000 jobs added and that move markets in a big way. back-

host: according to the bureau of labor statistics, almost 70% of workers have access to a retirement plan and more than 50% of those workers participated. the moody percent of us have access to a retirement plan, what could that include? guest: it includes all the pension 401(k) and four of three b -- and 403(b). sometimes there are different numbers on those statistics. if you look at all working household earning over $5,000, the numbers go down significantly for part-time and part year employees. a lot of people can only get jobs that might be part-time hours. but they might have two or three jobs to make ends meet. host: adam, how old are you? caller: good morning. i am 28 years old. i used to work for a large financial institution. a lot of people cannot afford to put money into a savings institution. this plan would be good for me. mutual funds, the most minimum is $1000 or $3000 to start. you take on the expense ratios. that is compounding against you as well. as you know, most of the people do not have a safety net or anything that would happen, not even a three-month expense

according to the bureau of labor statistics there are 27.5 billion people that are working part-time. and they have given up looking for work. 40 million people are basically coming in right now and all of the energy secretaries. sec john kerry intervened. are they not up to delivering the good? >> i think that they were badly focused. we have very little to show for the huge deficit that we have incurred. and unemployment, frankly if you measured in real terms, the people that are part-time workers with a huge compensation, you cannot compare it to us because the unemployment numbers are better. we also have a huge drop in the labor force or dissipation rate. and it works because of this simplistic way in which we present these numbers to the american public. neil: what do you think of that? and the president will brag about the numbers looking better than they were. he will argue the equivalent off the mat and things are better now. my policies are working now and we need to sort of do more of this now. what do you say? >> now because of what has happened recently, more businesses h

this is a number, a forecast but out by the bls, the bureau of labor statistics.participation rate to stay at over the next 10 years. look where it has gone now in blue leading up to the 2012. as ed just mentioned, below 63% now. we have not seen a number that low in almost 40 years. that is just dismal right now. trying to get the economy moving again? number of people either looking for a job or actually working, we haven't seen that since the 1970s. that's saying something. martha: go back to the number that stuart mentioned earlier, bill, one in five american men don't get up in the morning and go to work. i mean that is a very low and very stunning number. it will be very interesting to see how the administration handles this latest news on these jobs. chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor and host of "power play" on foxnews.com live. the number came in very low for added jobs, chris, what do you think? >> beyond low. this was stunningly low. the low expectation was something like 125,000 jobs. martha: yep. >> this is dire. and what this says, by

>> reporter: 3.295 million to be exact according to bureau of labor statistics bls, government and privateled jobs. last check of the numbers was in october 2013. the vast majority of them, unfilled jobs was in the private sector, 3.5 million of the 3.9 million unfilled. the rest were federal, state and local jobs, government jobs talk there. the in private sector industry were most unfilled jobs were, at top of the list, professional and business services, trade, transportation and utilities, then education and health services. as for where in the country there are the most unfilled jobs, mostly they're in the south, according to the bls. although there was an increase this past fall in infilled jobs in the midwest. bill? bill: you know, molly, why are they still open? >> reporter: there are a number of possibilities, bill? people don't have the right specialed skills to take the jobs open or maybe don't want to move their families to a different part of the country to take a job. maybe employers are trying to save money for part of the year and looking for just the perfect candidate. per

>> i think everyone saw better numbers for december except the bureau of labor statistics. . we got the best employment perform increase that we have seen since 2006. that is when the economy was still heading toward its peak. we think that you will see some revisions out there because our fundamental labor market indicators also state nice. the planning, the creation of new jobs going forward in job openings are hard to fill. the unemployment rate in state in the high sixes now instead of going over seven. so they should have had a better number. what is wrong with them? tracy: who does the math. one thing that i really like seeing its capital spending is the increase. that is really a we'll all been waiting for, isn't it? >> looking forward we see a nice increase in the percentage of firms that are going to make capital expenditures. a huge increase in the number that reported making capital expenditures in december that took a little bit to find out why. it is probably a section 179 expensive rules that changed. you could expense 500,000 until 1231. now is reverted to 25,

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the bureau of labor statistics put out a report on how the workforce will change in 10 years.sh will join us to discuss the findings. we will take your calls and you can also join the question -- the conversation on facebook and twitter. live each morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. so many people are of the opinion that if the members of the super in court don't like something that is happening in andcountry, it reaches out court andt into the starts writing opinions, which is of course contrary to the as anything could be. >> friday, a series of oral history interviews with former justices. this week, former chief justice earl warren at 4:00 eastern. fm,ashington at 90.1 online, and nationwide on xm radio. someone who grew in the office. he was badly burned by the bay of pigs experience. he had listened to the experts. the cia. the joint chiefs of staff. see charleswent to de gaulle in france, and de gau lle said to him you should surround yourself with the smartest possible people, listen to them. hear what they have to say. but at the end of the day, you have to make up you

so yesterday i got on the internet and went to the bureau of labor statistics. i looked how many jobs we had in the united states 20 years ago when nafta was enacted. we had about 97 million jobs in the private sector. i looked up how many jobs we have now. we have about 115 million jobs. from 97 million to 115 million. to argue that we have lost jobs your math skills have got to be highly suspicious, even by washington, d.c. standards. certainly we've lost some jobs whenever we trade with other countries just as we do when we introduce new technologies but the overall trend is to have more jobs and better jobs and it is not just in the united states. when we look at countries around the world, countries with the best trade freedom scores, meaning low non-tariff barriers and both tariff barriers and just as a definition, tariff is a tax on imports. the country that is remove the taxes, give people freedom to trade, not just have higher living standards, they have lower poverty rates. they have cleaner environments. they have all the kinds of things we hope to ha

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[applause] and on behalf of the board members and >> the bureau of labor statistics released its data, with the unemployment rate falling, and the economy adding 74 thousand jobs. at today's white house briefing, press secretary jay carney responded to reporter questions about the jobs report. >> back to the jobs numbers, it jay, i seem to remember you at the podium showing us job growth over the past couple of years, and the implication, the white house taking credit for the president's policies, and now we have this report. barely treading water. probably more ominously, the workforce rate or participation rate, we are down at a low for almost 40 years. >> that is pretty much where it has been since 2009. >> do the president's policies have to do, are they to blame at all with this jobs report? >> as i think you note, when we talk about the monthly jobs reports, we always begin with whether it comes in below expectations that there is more work to do, and this report is no different. but it does represent is 46 consecutive months of private sector job creation. 8.2 million jobs. >>

the bureau of labor statistics for that 1.4 million jobs will be created in this field. at adds up to a million gaps in the jobs of the students, which adds up to $500 billion in salaries. these jobs there in every state and every industry. this is not about google or microsoft having trouble hiring workers, they are in banking, retail, etc.. youchart on the left shows the amount of time high school students spend in all of step, and the small sliver that is computer science. the chart on the right shows all the jobs in stem, and a giant segment that is computer science. their mismatch because 90% of our schools do not even the -- teach this field. study tiny sliver that do the bitter side but only seven percent are girls. it is a huge problem for our country. in 3350 states, computer science does not even count or high school requirements. mentionedey you stem,stemmed -- spent on it is only a fraction of it. people often asked us these questions. in partnership with 100 companies, google, microsoft, apple, the college board, and many others, we had 20 million students pa

well, you know, i do rely on data and the key part of the data is the bureau of labor statistics. alize that one is a survey of companies across the country. the survey covers roughly one third of the job base. every year that survey benchmarks the employment count, so we have a very good accounting of almost all the jobs in this country once he year. in fact, we will get that data next month. producing morere jobs. as i mentioned, earlier, in 2014 we created 2 million jobs. jobs perbout 200,000 month. in normal times, if unemployment were lower, that would be considered to be very good. that is incredibly strong job growth. it is, of course, quite disappointing in the current context. unemployment is still very high. it undercuts the trust out there, you have a lot of underemployed and discouraged were -- discouraged workers. we are creating jobs. the job market is picking up. having said that, it is not the case for everyone. it is not the case for every community across the country or every industry. i missed where the caller was are some verye hard-pressed regions of the countr

but for those who are in the unemployment calculation, according to the bureau of labor statistics from january, 2007, to date, unemployment insurance has repeatedly been extended. including by republican administrations. t was in june of 2008 that then-president george w. bush authorized emergency unemployment insurance benefits to be extended and what was that unemployment rate at the time? 5.6%. and he didn't extend unemployment insurance one time. he extended it five times and he didn't offer a proposal for how it had to be paid for because it was an emergency. it was an emergency then, and it's an emergency now with the national unemployment rate just below 7%, when 1.4 million americans who rely on the unemployment insurance benefit have now lost it. it's an emergency for these individuals and it's an emergency for our economy. so for those on the other side who don't want to do this because it's the right thing to do for our neighbors, for hardworking americans who have done everything that they can and at no fault of their own, they are still unemployed, if you don't want to do

how do you do a labor report that's more updated and automated, because those numbers don't jive with those numbers? >> i have a lot of confidence in our bureau of labor statisticsodology and how they do this. i speak with employers with regularity, large, midsized and smalls and i speak to the employers, they tell me they want to grow their business. i was down at louisville, kentucky, at the ford plant recently, they have 4,400 now and growing. and so we need to make sure that they can continue to grow by matching their needs with the skill sets of employees. i talk to workers. i met with a group of long-term unemployed workers this week. it broke my heart. you know, one of them told me he had cancer a few years ago and, you know, fighting cancer was easier than fighting long-term unemployment. and the thing that angered them the most is when people suggest that they are sitting home eating bonbons. that just is so incorrect. and so as we debate this bill on extending emergency unemployment benefits, i hope that discussion will be off the table. and we can focus on the merits and what's happening. because i'll tell you, the people who are looking for work, the

bureau of labor statistics, two out of every three displaced manufacturing workers who was rehired in 2012 experienced a wage reduction, most of them more than 20%. despite the trenleds, we are now being urged to pass fast-tracked legislation, introduced last week by senators bachus and representative camp. grease the wheels of the transpacific partnership. this agreement with 11 nations in the pacific is of unprecedented scope and it threatens to be nafta on steroids. even this agreement -- the agreement being negotiated in secret, members of congress have been left out of the loop. even though the agreement will create binding policies on the future congress and countless areas. we have the evidence that suggests that this agreement will only accelerate economic inequality and job insecurity for american workers. we're being told that we need to rubber stamp it, that it's vital, nine out of 11 nations in this agreement have wage levels significantly lower than ours. if there is pressure at any direction on already stagnant wages, it will be down. harold mierston wrote in the very po

heard us talk about and i hink that you will see our counsel of economic advisors bureau of more is the labor statistics has now started looking at a broader measure of to make sure we are looking at all the things that effect how people are doing the earned income tax credit, food stamps. when you look at that measure find that poverty poverty and , perhaps close to 40% 35% to 40% since then. important been progress. i think that it is important to understand that many of the over that have been done the last 20 years have mattered. when i came in to in hen i was first here anyone 93 there were probably about 1.7 million americans that were above the poverty line because of the earned income tax credit. measures that have been condition over the ast 20 years -- because of measures that have been done the last 20 years including extending the earned income tax credit for or more th they children and there are six million people out of poverty. the refundable tax credit and child tax credit and i.t.c. it may be as many as nine million not being in poverty. when you look over this i think there u -- i thi