folks that were being predicted not to be moving into labor force are moving into the labor force. we just saw some recalculations of numbers of social security disability. and all of the sudden the longevity of the trust fund jumped substantially because it turns out a number of folks on social security disability moved back into the labor force. so there is something in our models that -- and i know it's at the margin, but we're already seeing some of the data that this substantial economic opportunity that's in the labor job opportunities is actually starting to pull people we thought were falling out of labor force participation. if you had an interest in that, where would you go to find more information in such a thing? this sort of goes back to senator lee's question of the ability to back test and sort of figure out where we've also made mistakes in some of our models. >> i mean, fed researchers have done very detailed modeling of labor force participation trends, and that's published research in places like brookings papers and referee journals. and my staff could provide y

labor leader jeremy corbyn says shows him to be a vital and. powerful voice speaking across the generations about the struggle for a just society he joins me now harry welcome back to going on the ground before we go to the book we have a new defense secretary was remembered sunday your a veteran how important is the military covenant between the state and protecting former servicemen and servicewomen just the most important thing in the life of a serviceman has to be i want to go. to the people where it's been defending their country in the last. legs. they didn't have a penny from their government you know care whatsoever what we want to happen to our men is what you say to our defense secretary you wrote it again just get off the pot. maybe one day you will have to be out there and face about. where you like to come back and. no protection at home tell me about the title of the book first wife feel it's so important to water earth as it were not to have the future be your past it's really. my life from the very beginning and the sense. that

not to be in the labor force are moving into the labor force that we just saw some recalculations, numbers of social security disability, and all of a sudden the longevity of the trust fund jumped substantially because it turns a number of folks who aren't so skirted scooted disay move back into the labor force. so there's something in our models that how i know it's at the margin but we're already seeing some of the data that the substantial economic opportunity that's in the labor job opportunities, is actually starting to pull people without were falling out of labor force participation. if you had interest in that, where would you go to find more information in such a thing? this sort of goes back to the question of the billy to back test and figure out where we've also made mistakes in some of our models. >> so i mean, that researchers have been very detailed modeling of labor force participation trends, and that's published research in places like brookings papers and refereed journals, and my staff to provide you references on that. as i mentioned in my opening statement, what we've

labor you know they invented the weekend for example organized labor without their organized labor we'd have no weekend and we had no hollywood we had no entertainment industry have no theme parks you know had no vacations you know they it's a huge part of the economy america was invented in effect by labor and then when the thirty's post crash you know it really became it became more politicized in that sense so did did the orgon. at that point were they always referring back to. a leninist marxist reference no no not at any point remember minneapolis is very largely scandinavian so you had a lot of scandinavians there. in new york you'd have basically central europeans and jews or going i think. the garment trades and the labor unions but in minneapolis and you had a completely different ethnicity with a different national background and they had a kind of scandinavian sense of fair play my father said that who graduated from the university of minnesota with an m.b.a. he said it was the rover boys stories that gave him a sense of fair play and you know that the rover boy being the ame

them on the left how did you come to be that the scottish labor body would have the right of labor down south in london. i think it was just that we were a little bit behind the time and you know we were still dancing to ninety's chirpy or really when don't over think it moved on you know later started synonymous with those nine ten live shots to the left of us all but scotland just take time you know and that sort of right wing group and the scottish labor party that they're taking up on the party and it's completely urgent the party membership so there's an awful lot of people who just don't listen franchise the course we're just a little and i don't believe in what these guys are talking about it's the wind farm initiatives the s. and p. which are in the south you know it was actually very at that it tracks are going to set a couple of elections i would suggest and yet with the disappearance of local elections . so many good people in the us and he took but just when you look up close at what's going on i mean even less expensive level that's what that actually was there with the d.l

first, we had a lot of slack in the labor market. then we had times where we have falling oil prices which pulled inflation down. theting in mid- 2014, dollar appreciated substantially with import prices fell down. we want inflation to be close to our 2% objective as possible. of course there will be variation and these things produce variation. what is surprising is that this ratewith a 4% unemployment , we are in the vicinity of full employment. oil prices have been roughly stable and the dollar, if anything this year, has depreciated somewhat, pushing up import prices. why is -- has inflation fallen this year and then so low? that is puzzling and i have opined on their have been a number of transitory or idiosyncratic factors that explain that. it is something we are watching and want to look carefully at the generally, a framework that ,ncorporates labor markets slack in the labor market along with these other factors, that provides a good understanding of inflation in the u.s. rep. paulsen: would you say tax reform proposals for

force are moving into the labor force. we just saw some recalculation of numbers of social security disability. and all of a sudden, the longevity of the trust fund jumped substantially because it turns out and number of folks on social security disability moved back into the labor force. there is something in our models -- i know it is at the margin, but we are seeing some of the data that the substantial economic opportunity that is in the labor job opportunities is actually starting to pull people we thought were falling out of labor force participation. if you had and it just in that, where would you go to find more information -- if you had an interest in that, where would you go to find more information on that sort of thing? this goes to senator lee's question about back tests. , i mean, saidso researchers have done very detailed modeling of labor force participation trends, and that is published research in places like brookings papers and refereed journals, and my staff could provide you references on that. as i m

body would have the right of labor down south in london. i think it was just that we were a little bit behind the times you know we were still dancing to ninety's chirpy or really have been done so that i think it moved on you know later stuff that certain elements of those nine ten live shots to the left a little but scotland just take time you know and that that sort of right wing group and the scottish labor party that they're taking up on the pocket and it's completely urgent to pass a membership so there's an awful lot of people who just don't listen franchise that voters were just going along i don't believe in what these guys are talking to today wind farm initiatives and the today wind farm initiatives the s. and p. which i am as as you know as actually betty at their tractor if i'm going to set a couple of elections i would suggest ante up with the disappearance of local elections that so many people in the s.n.p. took but just when you look up close of what's going on yes i mean even in legacy a council level that's what that actu

labor you know they invented the weekend for example organized labor without their organized labor we'd have no weekend right and we have no hollywood. and the entertainment industry had no theme parks you know had no vacations you know they it's a huge part of the economy america was invented in effect by labor and then when the thirty's post crash you know it really became it became more politicized in that sense so did did the organ labor organize at that point were they always referring back to. a leninist marxist reference no no not at any point remember minneapolis is very largely scandinavian so you had a lot of scandinavians there. in new york you'd have basically central europeans and truth or going i think. the garment trades and the labor unions but in minneapolis and you had a completely different ethnicity with a different national background and they had a kind of scandinavian sense of fair play my father said that who graduated from the university of minnesota with an m.b.a. he said it was the rover boys stories that gave him a sense of fair play and you know that the rov

telling the labor party to get to grips with what labor policy centrally is my council's been labor since the thomas created in the one nine hundred fifty s. it's nearly seventy years to thank you. well u.k. finance select committee choice even mcpartlin may have blamed councils run by gerry corbin's labor party some like former chancellor ken clarke who wasn't on the green when we were filming may blame rupert murdoch according to made a deal with cameron over the british government itself where is to blame the neoliberal institute for fiscal studies says british workers now face to economic last decades something with which britain's shadow chief secretary to the treasury peter dowd agrees thanks for being on the show again a great successful the speech by chancellor philip hammond universally applauded by members of our press corps what's wrong with it well it didn't deal with fundamentals did it number housing well let's go through it number one g.d.p. growth plot line investment flat line productivity which feeds into wages flatlined wages worse than they were ten years ago in

deach labors. secretary acosta has served in three presidentially appointed senate confirmed positions, and in 2002 appointed to serve as a member of the national labor relations board, in 2003, appointed assistant attorney general for the civil rights division of the u.s. department of justice, and from 2005 to 2009, he served as the u.s. attorney for the southern district of florida. secretary acosta i ask you to raise your right hand. do cow soldier'llly swear or affirm the testimony you are got to give with this will at the truth, the whole truth, and nothing bit the truth. let the record reflect the secretary answered in the affirmative. before i recognize you to provide your testimony, let me briefly remind you of our lighting system. we typically allow five minutes for each witness to present, although i'll be somewhat flexible if were testimony, begin you're our only witness today. when you begin the lying in front of you will turn green. when one minute is left the lite i light will turn y

holding up on that thought but labor debar defied them at a time and the labor leader was ed miliband who is a jewish british person as we all nor but with corbin coming to power i know jeremy corben has been a lifelong supporter of the a palestinian cause and in the twenty seventeen general election last june in the manifesto he stated that britain if we ever came to power over dimage atlee recognize the palestine as a state call for a stew a two state solution and also called for the end of the fifty year occupation and the end to illegal settlements and the israeli blockade and the last few months were some infighting in the party trying to get this polity changed but at partick conference at the end of september corben reassess after that and a chilly guarantee and then next general election manifesto labor will repeat that policy and what the international community has to realise is that put a fresh claim in a hundred years you will have a british government if carbon gets to power. bricking with the ball for declaration and calling as a set for their mutual recognition and over

the fair labor standards act. as my colleagues have highlighted, there are numerous unintended consequences presented by this bill. i want to highlight the impact on an often overlooked segment of our work force, our nation's farm workers. farm workers are among our nation's most vulnerable workers. farm workers work long hours in poor conditions for low pay. many farm workers are undocumented and subjected to severe abuse. the migrant and seasonal agricultural worker protection act, or awpa, is the principal labor statute protecting workers, it establishes record keeping standards for both seasonal and temporary farm workers. joint employment standards under this law and the fair labor standards act are vital to protecting the rights and protections afforded to these workers. oftentimes, farm workers are recruited, hired, supervised or transported by intermediaries, sometimes referred to as farm labor contractors. farm operators utilizing farm labor contractors maintain control of a working -- the working conditi

will you commit to continuing to ensure that the department of labor enforces labor laws, regardless of a person's immigration status? >> congressman, that has been a longstanding practice that has been an issue that has gone all the way up to the supreme court, and it is my intent to continue that practice. >> thank you so much. thank you, madam chair. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. allen, you're recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, chairwoman, and thank you, mr. secretary, for being here with us today. i was in the construction industry for 35 years before being elected to congress. and just a point of clarification, if i understood you correctly, on this silica rule. has the rule been finalized, or is it still being negotiated, and is it being now implemented, or is it going to be different? i've got people that don't know what -- i mean, they're out pricing and getting quotes, and this is very expensive to deal with. and so, where are we with this? i mean, are they to comply by this exact rule now? and then what happens if it changes, and like i said, it's very expensive

demand for labor. on the other hand, if you look at the supply of labor, we can get quite a different story, because there is only one social science they can predict 10 years ahead. that is tomography. everything kind of pales besides that. let's look at tomography. 1946, that is when the baby boom started. basically 1946 to 1964. after the baby boom there was a , baby bust. then there was the echo of the baby boom. you can look through this whole series of population changes and basically add 65 years to it and we see what is happening now. all of those baby boomers are retiring, that is followed by the baby bust. now, -- what does that mean? right now, the labor force is growing at half the rate of the population. 20he decade of the 20's, you will see the lowest growth in the labor force since world war ii. you look at the labor force, if you restrict immigration, it is actually going to decline. all those baby boomers are retiring. they expect to continue consuming. you need some workers somewhere

just in the labor party. teeny bit tax avoidance and tax evasion one hundred and sixty billion pounds more take. action taken by conservatives in government but given their own alleged billion pound bunker formerly parrot the animal welfare act two thousand and six provides protection for the animals experiencing pain or suffering which under the control of man but in the scrum outside parliament on budget day the question for jeremy corbin's u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonnell appeared to be with the theresa may with sentiment did the government have feelings shadow chancellor what did you think of the latest growth figures that a forecast for this country showed exactly what we've been saying if you don't invest in our economy the growth will go down product of it will not rise and as a result of lack of investment through austerity under this government the economy well i think is in. the sort of condition you would not expect it to be coming out of a recession a loss if you remember when with come out o

what in the world is going to -- what are we going to do to fill this labor gap and other labor gapscross the country if this is not resolved? do you have a plan for this as secretary of labor? >> congressman we have a skills gap. we have a substantial skills gap. and we need to find a solution to daca. it is my sincere hope that congress can take this up and that congress can find the solution. >> thank you. i am encouraged by your positive response and i may add that unfortunately, we have not heard that positive a response by other members of the administration. so i commend you. and by your positive response, it only encourages the support for these young people that are members of our military. they're teachers. they're workers. they're students. i think they're probably the best economic development program we can have for the thanksgiving with their aggressive innovativeness, their entrepreneurship, their immigrant hunger to succeed and make america move forward. my final question is according to the new year's reports from earlier this year, the result of the administration's

that's why the labor movement matters. pope francis speaking about how unions -- pope francis spoke about how unions perform in a central role for the common good. said the labor movement gives voice to those who have no voice. it unmasks the powerful who trample on the rights of the most vulnerable workers, who defend the cause of the foreigner, the least, the discarded. i just had the pleasure for the last few minutes in my office to speak with bishop murray, the youngstown, ohio. bishop murray and i were talking about the pope, about steel workers in youngstown, about the struggles of workers in wages, in layoffs and all the things that have happened to fae whims of globalization have buffetted the workers in that community. bishop murray, as does pope francis, understand what too many in this town don't, that workers feel invisible. entire communities feel invisible. they feel like they're getting used and abused and some other words that i can't say on the senate floor. what exactly is the point of creating economic g

to show you just how strong the labor market appears to be, take a look at this. the unemployment rate right now stands at a 17-year low. the economy has created jobs for 85 straight months, the longest streak on record. some economists are even suggesting that the labor market may be close to full employment. but as hampton pearson reports, others say the recent hurricanes are distorting that data. >> reporter: in october, the job market recovered from the hurricanes that slammed the southeast in september. but the addition of 261,000 jobs was less than the consensus forecast of 315,000 new hires. those estimates were revised upward this week based on new data forecasting strong private sector job growth, a manufacturing surge, and growing consumer confidence. one leading economist says that noise makes this month's report meaningless. >> i mean, there's too much hurricane effect in this. the nonpharm payroll number was a complete guess. average hourly earnings had some hurricane effect in it. >> reporter: the unemployment rate fell to 4.1 persian, t then 17 year

labor pm gordon brown may be trying to make an audience at the l.s.e. forget about how he oversaw a catastrophic economic crash in britain's economy alarming statistics about poverty have emerged in the past twenty four hours according to u.k. and gio the trussell trust hundreds of thousands of children have nothing but food banks to feed them in austerity britain between april and september six hundred thousand three day emergency food supplies had to be given out to stave off hunger so what about the usa a country whose new liberal policies have long been revered by u.k. politicians we sent senior producer pete bennett to speak with the cost and crew of a film hotly tipped for the oscars the florida project this friday in britain the film follows underclass survival in the shadow of multinational media corp the walt disney company. co-written and directed by sean baker the florida project follows the misadventures of three kids living on the highway to the most magical place on earth disney will florida star an oscar nominated legend willem dafoe and

protesters rallied in cities across france mounting a challenge to president macro lens controversial labor a full number of buildings have been vandalized in paris. also media outlets funded by the us government are notified they may have to register as foreign agents in russia the move mirrors similar requirements imposed on r.t. america in the us the deposed catherine leader hopes about his region's independence push and the turmoil it triggered in a rare interview on artie's brand new talk show he opens up to host alex diamond about his feelings when violence erupted on referendum day. was a tragic day to. see directly the failed state. school by town there are a lot of injuries and worth of injuries. but i welcome you watching r.t. international where it's just turned eight o'clock in the evening here in moscow. math thousands of students and trade union members have been marching in cities across france protesters are voicing their anger over president my crohn's labor reforms and the changes were signed into law in september and are widely seen as a raiding workers' rights and handin

joe: interestingly, while there is a big flow of people from not in the labor force into the labor forces chart, there is a spike in people who are employed to exiting the labor force, like the other side of the coin. matthew: the exact opposite flow. in october, almost 3.5% of people who had jobs exited the labor force. joe: wow. matthew: this is something you kind of think of as a proxy for retirement, for example. but interesting thing is this october.ord high in you can see the monthly change is the blue line at the bottom . the monthly change was also a record high. this is why the labor force participation rate fell so much in october. look at thatave to chart and wonder, is that going to last, or is it something that will reverse? joe: could this be a number that got skewed by fluky things with the hurricane? matthew: we were kicking that a round a little bit today, but i think that is an open question because this is from the household survey that has the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate and that was not specific to as heavily by the hurricanes so it is not cl

we are building more social housing and labor government did in 13 years in office. we will build more in the future, this is a government addressing constituents problems, previous labor government signaled to do so. >> at the recent extremely successful festival, hillary clinton talked about the importance of ensuring the russians are not allowed to middle british elections or american elections, my right honorable friend agree with me, we should be building an offense of cybercapability so opponents know we have the will and also the wherewithal to strike back. >> my right honorable friend is exactly right, from the member of parliament who represents gc hq, the offense of capacity that we may well need in cyberarea and the house. >> mary black. >> i would like to ask the new state pension, the scottish government can flex the problem, and the prime minister, hopes he can justify, and the number of women over the age of 60 in receipt of tsa, because of the government's refusal for pension. >> i applied to a previous question, i hope she would recognize the princip

protecting labor's making it the first gulf country to do so i'll just shall reports from geneva. international labor organization has just decided that the complaints that were filed against qatar a few years ago by several workers' representatives they would not pursue those complaints following what they described as a positive response from the qatari government in terms of addressing the concerns that many rights groups and workers groups had with regards to migrant workers' rights in qatar it is significant in the sense that the spotlight has been on the heart for several years now particularly in the build up to the twenty twenty two world cup the delegates here of the part that had responded positively as i mentioned there with regards to free movement of migrant workers those who are now able to leave the country as and when they wish and enter it as and when they wish rather than before the conditions that were placed on them under the previous system but more significantly is that qatar is now introducing a minimum wage for foreign workers that is something definitely u

i would agree that suggests a lack of tightness in the labor market. >> let me just push you on that a little bit because one possible explanation for the breakdown in the relationship between low unemployment and increase wages is that the labor market is not actually that tight. as you know, individuals who aren't actively looking for jobs aren't counted as unemployed under the traditional u3 unemployment measure that the federal reserve relies on. a better measure of the strength of the labor market might be the prime age employment rate which is simply the population age of 25 to 54 who actually hold a job, and as of last month the prime age employment rate was only 78.8% in other words, almost 1 in 4 prime age workers, that's 24 million americans, don't have a job, and while the prime age rate has been increasing, the proportion of prime age workforce who actually have jobs is well below the high that was set back in 2000, so mr. powell, there are a lot ofreasons why the prime age employment rate is so low, but i want to focus on one that is not typically on the federal reserve'

they'll be sadly missed by all of us, particularly in the labor party. mr. speaker, in 2010 the labor government intervened through hmrc to shut down aisle of man's scheme used to import yachts into the european union and thus avoid tax. a similar scheme has recently been exposed relating to the import of business jets into the isle of man. can the prime minister ensure the house that hmrc investigates these new allegations diligently? >> the honorable gentleman has made a number of references in his question andly address all of them. on the first point, it is absolutely essential that we have processes that political parties have processes to deal with allegations of misconduct, also that obviously we have the ministerial code and proper investigations take place against the ministerial code where that is appropriate. but i believe it is also crucial for everybody working in this parliament, be they working for a member of parliament, for the house authorities or a journalist working in this parliament, that there are proper processes in this parliament fo

labor force. we have a group of part-time workers who would like to be full-time workers, and wages seem to be not rising at all. what can we do? i do not think we can claim victory as you suggest on unemployment, but we have to take steps, both monetary and fiscal. any suggestion? mr. powell: the steps that can be taken our steps for congress and not to much for us. we can manage demand through our business cycle, and we can try to achieve our goal of maximum employment, but these are long-running trends. for example, among prime aged males, participation in the labor force has been declining for 60 years. kind of thing, so, and you know the opioid crisis plays a role and now is making it worse. these are issues we do not have the tools to deal with. sen. reed: you do not have to respond to this, i think we have identified significant problems that affect every household in the country. the tax bill before the senate does not respond, in my view, to any of those. of how to raise wages, how to get

says they're designed to protect the french labor market. that is why we plan to expand these regulations next year all sectors not just construction companies will need to fill out the additional paperwork and apply for an extra permit. rules may be complex but they provide access to a part of our market in exchange. with them that will do what is good morris fed says the new rules are unjust. and he thinks that other european companies will also be disadvantaged by mccomas policy. he decided to lodge a comply. with the german government but it merely advised him to file a lawsuit at the european court of justice. this is. the responses we got are really frustrating noncommittal answers with no new information. yes we know but we don't have the answer and if you're unhappy you can file a complaint. many other german companies share his frustration. fare from the local branch of the chamber of commerce represents german businesses here she says thousands of them fear they'll have to stop exporting to france and that would also have a knock o

being represented by its labor minister here which will put in place what they're call these technical agreements this technical agreement will put in place a procedure for the ilo to have constant access to labor sites to have constant access to the way in which labor laws are governed so that in the future particularly as these projects these massive infrastructure projects continue if there are any complaints be it's by individuals or by rights organizations they can go directly to the ilo in order to ensure that things are rectified so it is pretty significant turn for the better as far as these organizations are concerned jamal many thanks indeed in geneva. an anticorruption body in the philippines has filed criminal charges against former president but he no kino he's accused of mishandling a twenty fifteen police raid with forty four commandos died they were killed by a large number of rebel gunman who were the targets of the raise the killer is accused of allowing a suspended police chief to be involved in the planning of the operation he's facing charges of misuse of authority

it's labor income. i hear the lawyers talk about the guardrail things and i know there's a lot of optimism this can be constructed in a prudent way. i have to wait and see what the final outcome is before i can do an economic analysis of it. >> thank you. >> thank you. i think this morning we did hear a lot of the same critiques that we've heard in the past from 1980s, you know all the disparaging remarks that you heard today. but we're really in a different economy now, this information economy and the international economy that we have. as you pointed out numerous times, people can leave and go to ireland and find a talent pool there that allows them -- microsoft or a lot of our tech companies -- to go there, that's what we're competing with. what kind of new thinking maybe gets past some of the same partisan language that has kind of been renewed? i thought we had all sort of agreed our corporate rate was too high. now we're kind of seeing that reversion on the partisan front to same old tired critiq

we have a healthy labor market. but to my surprise, to all of our surprise, i believe inflation readings start to come in weak. and that was a surprise. and the question is why. there are multiple possible explanations. one is that these are just idiosyncratic factors like the ones that you hear about there was a big drop in pricing for mobile telephone services because of a price war and also a change in the way they calculate that. in addition, pharmaceutical prices. basically underlying inflation moves according to a slowly changing evolving trend. but then there are these factors that move around a lot. and we happen to have a number of factors that push it down. and there are different views. and we have been very public about this debate that we've been having. in our public remarks as you mentioned. and you know, one question is, is it transitory, or are there more fundamental things at work here. i think we are all watching carefully to see. and we'll have to be guided by the data as they come in. >> we real