advice that was not appropriate... >> smith: to try and hold the industry accountable, the department of laboroposed a new fiduciary rule in the fall of 2010. >> when retirement savings are at stake, advisors should put their clients' interests first. the critical question is, what constitutes paid investment advice? the proposal we're discussing today will amend a 35-year-old regulatory interpretation... >> smith: the rule would require all financial advisors to put their customers' interests before their own whenever dealing with retirement accounts. >> today, there are trillions of dollars in each of these markets. the variety and complexity of financial products have increased and made fee arrangements far less transparent. >> smith: the financial services industry lobbied hard against the new rule. >> it just seems that the financial services industry is really concerned about... >> smith: they got the attention of congress. >> our job here in congress is not to preserve the business model that has existed for 35 years, but if you are going to upset that business model, we had better know

and whether it's getting an exciting grant from the department of laborer to the tune of $8 million and to get kids involved in technology. or whether it's the latest program in our youth and getting more housing for them and services directly connected. as good as those things may be, they are one offs. unless we all coordinate how it is that we can attack those gaps. and not leave any period of time where the kids might feel they have to go back to habits that they may have learned. whether from their families or environment they grew up in. i am cognizant of that, having grown up in public housing. and to get better. and to try to do that with the public housing residents now. to give hope to them. no matter where they are, sunnyvale or potrero. but to work with the families and it's not just brick and mortar. i want to give you my personal thoughts of bringing everyone together. it's worth it. it's worth every ounce of our energy to really fill in all the gaps. what makes me the saddest is when diag, and i and police chief suhr get the texts on the mornings where we see a victim of

want to take a moment to recognize the leadership of our partners in labor seiu, did a phenomenal job in organizing the rallies and along with the department on the commission -- of the department and the commission on the status of women as well as sfwpc. thank you, colleagues. i would urge your support as well. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. colleagues, unless there is any additional discussion, can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams. >> yes, mr. president. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals. on behalf of supervisor breed for the late dominic [speaker not understood] crawford. on behalf of supervisor cohen, for the late ms. catherine campbell. and ms. levine stuben. on behalf of supervisor chiu, supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener for the late ms. mabel sue. >> madam clerk, is there any more business in front of the board? >> that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. [gavel] >>> the meeting will now come to order. welcome to the regular

want to take a moment to recognize the leadership of our partners in labor seiu, did a phenomenal job in organizing the rallies and along with the department on the commission -- of the department and the commission on the status of women as well as sfwpc. thank you, colleagues. i would urge your support as well. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. colleagues, unless there is any additional discussion, can we take this item same house same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >> madam clerk, could you read the in memoriams. >> yes, mr. president. today's meet

we received a notice from the department of labor and wanted to know who was doing these jobs when seasonal workers were not here. we had to respond with two years worth of payrsayi that it was true to prove that they were needed here to process these for thanksgiving. clearly did not understand that need. >> i understand. i wanted a couple of other examples for the record. i wanted to ask mr. rodriguez. an example from my own time, i know how he was one of the chief negotiators in the discussion over agriculture and i would note again that everyone involved in this has had to give something. i hope people realize that this committee did a lot of giving on both sides. >> you think? on thisne area, though, area of legislation how will it prevent the exploitation of undocumented farm workers? all, i want to thank the people from the agricultural industry that we worked with. they are thereith us and d tohion the discussion in such a way that we really talked about these various issues. i think that all of us i and the end, the senator wanted to make sure that we had an agricultural industry i

department of labor i mean we're talking on average forty six hundreds of americans dying every year in workplace accidents why with so many deaths isn't there more priority to fully fund. i think that's an excellent question that has to do with our own priorities. that an average of almost thirteen a day i'm sorry thirteen and a week and that's not even including the average the average of fifty thousand occupational occupational deaths a year that's things like diseases silicosis black lung popcorn lung things like that i think a lot of that is a lot of these deaths don't happen all at once they happen in dribs and drabs they happen from people falling off of tall ledges they happen on construction sites they happen when things collapse one person dies two people die and these are tragedies and they add up as you say to forty six hundred a year or to fifty thousand a year if you include occupational diseases but we but individually they look like accidents individually maybe they look like carelessness on the on a level of an individual worker or an individual manager or an individ

department of labor i mean we're talking on average forty six hundreds of americans dying every year and workplace accidents why with so many deaths isn't there more priority to fully fund. i think that's an excellent question that has to do with our own priorities. that an average of almost thirteen a day i'm sorry thirteen and a week and that's not even including the average the average of fifty thousand occupational occupational deaths a year that's things like diseases silicosis black lung popcorn lung things like that i think a lot of that is a lot of these deaths don't happen all at once they happen in dribs and drabs they happen from people falling off of tall ledges they happen on construction sites they happen when things collapse one person dies two people die and these are tragedies and they add up as you say to forty six hundred a year or to fifty thousand a year if you include occupational diseases but we but individually they look like accidents individually maybe they look like carelessness on the on a level of an individual worker or an individual manager or an indivi

just to give you an example, we've had a 3-year contract with the department of labor for job placement and retention, and our 3-year retention rate has been about 85 percent. very impressive. and what's great about that particular statistic is that that's been with ex-offenders. very good. gary? if i could respond to a couple of points that neli made. i certainly agree that services need to be individualized, and you need to look at the whole person, and you need to look at housing, and you need to look at the family situation. but in our supported employment model, the model that's been adopted around the world i might add, we have looked at the timing of employment, and this is counterintuitive, many people wouldn't think this would be true. but we have a score of studies that show that when a person says i'd like to go to work, that you help them, that, what's called a rapid job search approach. you don't wait until they stabilize, but you move ahead in looking for that search. and that employment can be part of the recovery process for people with dual disorders, with mental illnes

the department of labor is reducing the incidence across the message.rance program is notified when a new employee is highered. based on state progress reports those efforts seem to be paying off. the next report i hope comes up better still betting their unemployment. working out every sij day taking a couple breaks running fast taking it slow. exercise myths from the facts. >> soccer fans never saw this coming. the score board going up in flames. we will tell you what happened. >> first let's check in with brian kilmeade at the top of the hour. >> not a lot of people at the soccer game. no one could get hurt. there were 500 people there. how are you doing? >> great. i want you working out twice a day let me ask what's coming up on tocks and friend now. mow more need to argue. she was crowned miss america's outstanding teen for 2013. she is here to perform with her high school choir. also donald trump is here, of course you have another great appearance on celebrity apprentice and boxing legend mike tyson all coming up at the top of the hour. please pu

department of labor found similar reports in a 2009 report. ere is up to a 7% pay gap. >> i wouldn't rule out discrimination playing a role. we have other sources of evidence. >> reporter: professor studied labor economics as it pertains to race and gender for years and concludes that the percentage of the gender pay gap represented by discrimination is not the relative point here. >> regardless of what chunk of the gap between 77 cents and a dollar is discrimination, per se, women being treated badly we should be concerned even if it is reflected in measurable differences. when you filter out the gender pay gap for gender pay gap, choices and degrees you get a smaller number for differences in pay. that's the reality of the pay gap but it is no less a reality per the professor's point that there are obstacles built into the system to keep women's pay down. it is an important remindert that more is needed to fix the problem. that is today's reality check. >>> it appears a lot of us want to strike it rich quickly. in the first 24 hour of powerba

. >> she was in the department of labor. >> what a lot of people didn't mention is when this happened, ashley judd spoke out and said that this wasn't a correct thing to do. >> john: the fbi is looking into it. the person who recorded this and leectd it is the one being unethical. >> i think that's a greater hypocrisy. pay theory act tactics are bad when that's the victim. portman, his son was gay and then bashing people -- what's good -- what's soft for the goose -- >> it is kind of like this same thing that evolutionists were wrong for being abolitionists. what they were doing was stealing property. >> john: they were hurting prophets. i agree that family is off-limits unless you're bristol palin and getting paid a lot of money as a single teen mom to preach abstinence. it is confederate history month we're glorify the right to take away the rights of others. that's in the f bomb. thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. (vo) she's joy behar. >>current will let me say anything. >> john: welcome back to "viewpoint." one more quick que

this is the significant change from the current regime administrated by the department of labor, which is demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of agricultural and our labor needs. additional information on agricultural unique labor needs as well as the details of the proposal can be found, of course, in my lengthy written statement which was submitted for the record, mr. chairman. i thank you again for the opportunity to testify on behalf of so many in agricultural today. i look forward to any questions you have at the later time. >> thank you. it's good to see you back here on the hill. alyson eastman is the president associate an agent of a2a business services from employer of agricultural workers based in vermont. her family is long tradition of farming in vermont and currently own a 278-acre farm in vermont. it's one of the prettiest parts of vermont. one of the most significant agricultural parts of our state. mrs. eastman, go ahead. >> good morning. we have been assisting employers since 1993. first i would like to thank chairman leahy, ranking member grassley, and all m

the department of labor and industries is investigating how his clothes became stuck. >>> time is 6:25. blood banks often talk about a blood shortage but in 1985 the food and drug administration beganned gays from donating blood. but now more groups like the american red cross want to repeal that ban. they say medical technology now makes donations a lot safer today. >> it was embarrassing. i go in to give blood and like no you are gay. we don't want your blood. it assumes i'm hiv positive and that is not true. >> there are petitions to rethink its policies and overturn that ban. >>> 6:26. the california academy of sciences and golden gate park is celebrating a new arrival and you can help name him. the public is invited to submit names for the new baby penguin through the end of the month. museum staff will narrow the admissions down to three names and the public will vote on the winner. the person who submits the winning name will receive a behind the scenes tour of the penguin -- penguin colony. >>> let's check in with sal to see what is new in traffic. >> behave a brand new crash.

the department of labor and industries is investigating how his clothes became stuck. >>> time is 6:25. blood banks often talk about a blood shortage but in 1985 the food and drug administration beganned gays from donating blood. but now more groups like the american red cross want to repeal that ban. they say medical technology now makes donations a lot safer today. >> it was embarrassing. i go in to give blood and like no you are gay. we don't want your blood. it assumes i'm hiv positive and that is not true. >> there are petitions to rethink its policies and overturn that ban. >>> 6:26. the california academy of sciences and golden gate park is celebrating a new arrival and you can help name him. the public is invited to submit names for the new baby penguin through the end of the month. museum staff will narrow the admissions down to three names and the public will vote on the winner. the person who submits the winning name will receive a behind the scenes tour of the penguin -- penguin colony. >>> let's check in with sal to see what is new in traffic. >> behave a brand new crash.

. >>> let's bring in mike, staff writer and celeste, foreign policy analyst from the department of labor'sety and health administration. great to have you both here. when you heard about this, mike and started looking through the osha records, i saw it from your reporting, were you surprised it had been so long since osha inspected the plant? >> no. literally the plant had not been inspected in my lifetime, literally not since 1985. there's not enough osha inspector inspectors for the country. there are so few in texas, it would take 98 years for them to inspect every place once. it didn't surprise me. typically there's only an inspector when a worker calls up and complains and typically only in a union workplace. >> it's a complaint and people come out and not like doors on hazardous work sites. >> occasionally, not that often. >> what is the standard. you would think a fertiliz fertilizer -- about 20 employees in this west fertilizer warehouse where this happened. what is this standard that would prompt a heightened level of scrutiny from osha or from any kind of federal regulatory body,

and the fact the department of labor originally told all employers to write letters to their employeesarch 1st, alerting them to the existence of these exchanges, which were supposed to open october 1st. then the labor department more recently sent a letter to employers saying don't tell your employees about the exchanges, implying they won't be ready. >> when are they supposed to be ready? >> supposed to be ready october 1st. by the way, it's not just whether -- >> this is where -- coming into may. >> billed as providing a huge array of choices for people who need insurance. but, in fact, it's like going to a supermarket that only sells cereal. they only sell one thing. the government-mandated essential benefit package. >> that's untrue. actually not true. there's a minimum essential -- benefit package but also -- >> that's all -- >> gold, platinum and all this other stuff. >> i was just going to make that point. bronze, gold, silver platinum. not tiffany's. same essential benefit package, only the co-pays and deductibles differ. >> it's very good. >> you're forced to buy t. it's like

i would argue that something like the release of the department of labor unemployment statistics, or the producer price index, or these types of government data releases, that's really insider information. >> if you get it. >> if you get it early and you beat the trade that's got to be illegal. but the sort of analysis that goes on about what's going to happen in the policy making realm, it would be next to impossible to draw a line of legality versus illegality. >> we have a lobbyist right here on set. did you tip off anybody about health care? >> not today. >> darn it. you missed the gravy train. >> i've bennifer letting around washington for information to iv plus years. the notion that you could mine the bureaucracy for tradeable intelligence on a reliable basis is horrifying to me. what's true in washington at 2:00 in the afternoon may not be true at 4:00 and what's true at one branch of the government may not be true in another branch of the government. that said having inappropriate nonpublic information is not right and it's protect and there's am different ways to protect pro

i assume it was the discussion as you know, the regulations were written by hhs, the department of labornd treasury it was a tried department initiative, and if you're asking exactly what the nexus of the 30 our -- >> i just wonder why, you know, typically basically the law -- >> it's in the statute. in the affordable care act. that is what osha's told. >> that's where senator harkin god or whoever wrote it in the united states. normally we think of full-time work week at the 40 hour work week. i was wondering about the rationale for that because don't you think with a 30, the rule that says that if you work 30 hours, you could be considered a part-time worker is in some cases becoming a disincentive for full-time employment if some companies look at the health care law and say one way we can avoid it is a more part-time workers, and so we've workers across the country who are going from full-time at 40 hours to part-time and 30 hours. so they're not only no insurance but no full-time job. >> well, i am hoping that that will not be a decision employers may. iink that when the law was wri

subaru, >>> let's bring in mike elk, staff writer, and celeste, former policy analyst for the department of labor'snal safety and health administration. when you heard about this and started looking through the osha records, because i think i first saw them from your reporting. were you surprised it'd been so long since osha had inspected the plant? >> no, literally this plant has never been inspected in my lifetime. it didn't surprise me. you know, if every osha -- there's not enough osha inspectors to inspect every workplace in the country. there's so few in the state of texas, it would take 98 years for osha to visit every workplace in the state of texas once. it didn't surprise me there wasn't an inspection. typically, there's only inspections at osha when a worker calls up and complains and that typically only happens in a union workplace. >> so it's prompted by a complaint and then someone comes out. it's not like there's people canvassing and knocking on doors of hazardous work sites? >> occasionally, but not that often. >> celeste, what is the standard for, you would think a fertilizer -- t

nearly half the graduates of colleges and universities have jobs that the department of labor says do high school -- do not require a college diploma. we have 115,000 janitors in the united states without college degrees. so i could go on. >> you know, you could go on, but, let me push back on there for a second and say that right now, while we have an unemployment rate for the country of 7.9%, college-educated people, the unemployment rate is actually 4%. so, obviously, when you have a higher degree, when you have a college education, you're actually getting the job faster than if you don't. >> yeah, but at what cost, maria? you know, over time, the cost of college has risen a lot. the benefits of college are becoming more questionable. and i think that's the issue. >> okay, fair enough. steve, what about that? $30,000 a year. is cost the issue? why is college worth that kind of money? >> first of all, that's only the private schools. and second of all, there's a lot of aid there. two-thirds of students go to public schools, which is considerably less. let's look at some of the data.

can someone explain why it's important to have the ag department and a guestworker program instead of the labor department? >> i will try that as well. let me just say i think a couple of different ways to answer that. certainly there's a structure rd in place for not only the state level usda offices but we all know there is a virtual usda presence in every county in america and certainly every major agricultural county. these are all producers albert that deal with quite often and they are quite familiar. there are people in those offices were not only helping the producers but helping them navigate through this process. we believe they will be quick to use the local system as well established out there in america today. >> thank you. ms. eastman i thought one of the most important parts of her testimony was when he talked about the indirect benefits really of the guest workers and in fact we have some kind of status. sometimes they use him here and sometimes they ship them back whether it's motorcycles washing machines you name it. you also mentioned a positive impact for rural areas. could

the department of labor had to alert employers do not send out letters to talk about the exchanges.y around this? >> i would take it from senator baucus. stuart: must be very careful how you lift. >> it is amazing, isn't it. stuart: thank you very much indeed. a way to cut down on the government massive debt, we will tell you just how much money the government could bring in next. for seeing your business in a whole new way. for seeing what cash is coming in and going out... so you can understand every angle of your cash flow- last week, this month, and even next year. for seeing your business's cash flow like never before, introducing cash flow insight powered by pnc cfo. a suite of online tools that lets you turn insight into action. stuart: police are searching for two suspects after a shooting of the 420 pot rally. two people injured, this was an event to celebrate legal marijuana. one study shows the total benefits to state and federal government is around $20 billion, they get that through tax revenue coming in and less spent on law-enforcement. i don't necessarily want to dea

the department of labores .eor fr years after if they can hire the number one student from the no. 1 computer science school in the country would be competition with someone at the bottom of the class and has two years of work experience. do you want the apple or the orange? you do not know whether the department of labor tells you if you are to prefer apples or oranges. >> you suppose we should work on that aspect of it. could you explain what provision in the article it references in out?opinion on the car >> if a firm sponsors a h1b worker for a green card, they put in the paperwork that will reduce deeper h1b dependent -- their h1b numbers. they will n have to do good faith recruiting more pay the higher wage levels. i think it is a mistake and it will affect not just facebook, and we should not make policy around one firm, but other firms to exploit the program. said to have been on an h1b these uin year experience is relevant. why you say that these holders at these service companies are not really specialize? thate majority of the work the indian offshore industry does it is ba

of civil rights. some republicans worry at the labor department he will push new regulations that could hurt the economy creation. >> can we expect a more open, a more fair, and a more balanced approach from you as the head of the department of labor? >> sir, i believe i have been always open and fair and i will continue to do. >> we would of course disagree. so we can or can not expect a more, open, fair and balanced approach? >> you will always have a person who has an open and balanced approach and i will continue to apply the facts to the law. >> some republicans also accuse him of improperly influencing a controversial housing discrimination case that was headed to supreme court but wu drawn. perez denies this and says the case was handled properly and professionally. lori, back to you. lori: peter thanks. controversy of the good friday morning arrest of sac capital person. charlie gasparino has the story. melissa: we see stocks down about 50 points. the treasury market flat. we'll be right back. >> i'm dennis kneale with your fox business brief. 352,000 americans filed for first time unemployment

the department of labor, mr. speaker, they keep statistics on these things, they say today in america, these years during the president's administration, we've had the lowest level of entrepreneurial activity since the department of labor began keeping records. not the lowest level of people succeeding but the lowest level of people trying. that the word is out, mr. speaker, you cannot succeed in america any longer. that's just not true. it's just not true. if it is true, we have the power to change it. we get to decide the rules of this country, mr. speaker. we sit on the board of directors of america, we get to make these rules. success, mr. speaker, opportunity, america, those are synonyms. they have been synonyms since 1776, they will be synonyms until the day that i die unless you and i trade those things away. unless we trade them away. the fair tax says, we are not going to be in the business of punishing people any longer. we're going to be in the business of celebrating success. the more you save, the les

that dhs, the department of labor, and the justice department should use their auditing and authorities to combat the misuse of the programs and protect foreign workers from abuse which in turn protects mesh workers. what cousin the -- what does the bill to prevent potential misuse of the visa program? >> well, my understanding there are numerous opportunities and numerous lmentd -- element of the new bill that would allow us to combat abuse and numerous mechanism to frankly investigate that abuse. i think it's the point in time under the law we currently have that is where i think things are a bit anemia. we need to have more process. i would caution that process needs to be fair, it needs to be balanced, and it needs to make sure that all side are heard. >> very good. i appreciate that. i think people like to hear the part of the bill as well as the important pathway to citizenship and things we're doing that make it more possible to enforce against fraud and other things. thank you. >> i told senator sessions i wish to interrupt his time of speaking, and we're now within the minute o

of the locations, veterans will find our people, some of them we're going to seek out with department of labore training in a variety of the companies, so that, when we hire veterans, they just don't get hired necessarily for one position. they have a chance to rotate to find out where they fit best for themselves and also for our company, and so it's going to be a complex way of doing thins, but i think at the end of the day, there's going to be a dramatic pickup in the ability to hire verett rap -- veterans. >> you have hilton hotels, and, of course, seaworld, most riantly you worked with, all companies looking to place veterans and are on board with you. >> well, now, different companies looking for different things. for example, sea world is looking for paramedics, which is sort of a real specialty that the military would have a lot of people relative to other groups train for. >> right. >> each withdrawn of the companies looking for different types of positions. we're looking for people with manager experience, projects in the armed services because some of our companies can grow faster i

labor force participation and whether that headline moves around or not. joining us now, patrick o'keefe, director of research and former district secretary in the departmentand julia koronado. great to see you guys as a team there back stateside. but maybe you can give us a sense of what the most important figure is to watch for julia starting in the report today. >> i think you touched on some of the main ones. how much of an impact of the sequester do we see, how broad based is the job -- are the job gains and then also the unemployment rate. do we make progress or do we actually backtrack perhaps because labor force participation starts to rise. that would be a positive signal if people are starting to come back into the later force. so that wouldn't necessarily be a negative if the unemployment rate rose a touch because people are coming back. >> patrick, which one is going to be more telling, do you think, the number of jobs added or that unemployment rate? >> well, i think the jobs added is -- the unemployment rate is so misleading because of the denominator problem. but the jobs added and whether we start to see evidence as we have the past couple

of 2012. however, due to our already existing low staffing levels, the department has seen an increased reliance on mandatory overtime especially during the summer months. the department has worked closely with labor and the department of human resources on a few overtime policy changes such as modifications to our overtime policies as well as instituting a hard cap on individual overtime. so, this -- while it affect the distribution of overtime, it doesn't change the overall amount of overtime. that can only be done with the addition of personnel which comes at a cost. while appreciative of the mayor's hiring plan, the currently scheduled hiring will not completely resolve the issue given additional retirements over the next few years, but we are making incremental steps forward. >> so, chief hayes can you explain more about mandatory overtime and how that gets implemented and why? >> certainly. so, we do have a voluntary overtime plan for wdo work your day off. after that list of volunteers is exhausted, we then need to move to the mandatory overtime program that we have, and it used to be very -- used very little. it's not something that i'm interested in doing. it's not a good sustainable way

the department of labor industries is investigating how his clothes became stuck. >>> speaking of cloesclothes, a store clerk caught in the middle of a -- middle of a shooting and he can thank his belt buckle for saving his knife. he was getting ready to take a hand truck outside. there was a shootout. he hit the floor. he had been shot with you didn't know it right -- but didn't know it right away. >> you didn't feel anything? >> no. >> what caused you to look at your belt? >> i take it out of my body. >> reporter: and then later on somebody pointed out there was a hole in his shirt and looked at his belt buckle. the bullet hit it. a thin metal strip stopped that bullet. by the way, the gunman in this case was arrested. >>> 8:20. sonoma county middle school is cracking down on dress codes. the clothing some girls are wearing that reportedly could be too distracting. >>> and steve paulson is coming back. i will tell you what to expect for your weekend. >>> good morning. northbound 280, slow traffic getting up into the valley but we'll tell you what other commutes look hike. that's strea

the department of labor industries is investigating how his clothes became stuck. >>> speaking of cloesry -- clothes, a store clerk caught in the middle of a -- middle of a shooting and he can thank his belt buckle for saving his knife. he was getting ready to take a hand truck outside. there was a shootout. he hit the floor. he had been shot with you didn't know it right -- but didn't know it right away. >> you didn't feel anything? >> no. >> what caused you to look at your belt? >> i take it out of my body. >> reporter: and then later on somebody pointed out there was a hole in his shirt and looked at his belt buckle. the bullet hit it. a thin metal strip stopped that bullet. by the way, the gunman in this case was arrested. >>> 8:20. sonoma county middle school is cracking down on dress codes. the clothing some girls are wearing that reportedly could be too distracting. >>> and steve paulson is coming back. i will tell you what to expect for your weekend. >>> good morning. northbound 280, slow traffic getting up into the valley but we'll tell you what other commutes look hike. that's

it has nothing to do with the department of labor. it doesn't have labor standards in it.just a cold war relic. it's part of the problem of the immigration program that we have. the programs are defined by workers come into the country in temporary status. not to do temporary jobs, but in temporary status. people are not contemporary. people have complete, full lives. so the worker complains, they have a choice. of either going back home or becoming undocumented. those two conditions render these guest worker programs terrible. >> this is the thing. people do come and make lives. we were just looking at the number of people in the country in a status we call illegal or undocumented. 50% of them are people who have overstayed their visas. they initially cross the borders in a status of legal or undocumented. but they overstay so does that help to address that? >> well, thanks, melissa. for us the real bottom line on any guest worker program is there be strong, strong labor protections. and the labor protections really have to include protections from abusive employers who r

inhly unlikely the complaint our department of labor -- much of the competition is concentrated in majormetropolitan areas such as new york, los angeles, chicago. also in rural areas now. southeast states of georgia, north carolina, and virginia. of illegal immigration on low skilled workers is especially severe in today's stagnant economy. the commission conducted its investigation originally, the unemployment rate for blacks without a high school diploma was 12%. y i, 24.6%. that clearly shows we have an oversupply of low skilled labor related to the demand, and that is for all workers in such class, take an early black americans. research shows that 40% of the 18 point percentage decline in the employment rates of black males is attributable to illegal immigration. that is hundreds of thousands of blacks without jobs. it translates to hundreds of thousands who can't pay taxes, and support their families on their own time. the evidence also indicated that in addition to employment levels, illegal immigration drove down wage levels. studies by the federal reserve bank of atlanta, for ex