taking all of these measures of labor on board, we say about the state of the labor market relative toloyment? while uncertainty in the long run level of indicators is substantial, many suggest a liberal market that is in the neighborhood of maximum employment. and a few other measures suggest slack. they are subject to revision. as we seek the highest stable utilization of labor resources, the committee is guided by incoming data by bob range of measures. that brings me to inflation. the substantial improvement in the labor market is accompanied by low inflation and inflation runs below the 2% longer run objective. unemploymentadline -- headline inflation, and core inflation which excludes food and energy prices. consumer prices, by our preferred measure, increased 1.8% ending in february, and the core price index, which typically a better indicator of future inflation, rose 1.6% over iod.same per both. of the indexes are below 2% consistently for the past half-dozen years. this persistent shortfall has led to some to question the traditional relationship between inflation and unemplo

first ever fool time research officer of the labor party in scotland so it was the scottish of the laborty as it was. kind of very limited they will of course because of the s.n.p. success of the favorites and before the election and subsequently some different than the rule of my job in the role of the scottish labor party became much more important and for once we were listened to in london and devolution was forced on this course labor party well they wanted or not the labor party were persuaded of scotland to go for devolution against their will which is a fascinating irony absolutely held the s.n.p. more or less at bay and told them before and you of the research officer had a hand in achieving that result is underwriting the manifesto promise a powerhouse problem and but that year or two that you had decided that that wasn't going to happen and you were off to pastures new what happened well there were two things first of all the way in which the labor party ottilie really done its promise to the skin scottish people because the keel it misstated of the first white paper on the sco

the labor party member for sophie. a john roberts in for paisley and you of the reception of some of the labor party so you're actually employed by the labor while you were plotting whenever we decided to do it i resigned within a day or two from the labor party if possible one of all of them to do well we were plotting anything until the white people came out which was the let must pass that the litmus test and therefore it was very quick i mean we met in jim's house with mobile phone who you knew who was the p.r. advisor to the labor party in scotland at the time very highly respected journalist in scotland and they resigned from the labor party but well two things happened one of the wasn't a general election. and secondly your party drifted into some trouble and waters the problem was two fold number one obviously came along and therefore the. it wasn't all h. and by the time the election came the s. and p's credibility had condoned we suffered from lot and also the international markets and had by then infiltrated

my answer is, this isn't jeremy corbyn's labor party. everyone who votes labor is a shareholder in the party. the millions of people across the country who vote for labor, they are shareholders in this party. and have every right to be in the party and want to be part of the labor party. and i believe my voice from within will sound much stronger than from being without. my intention is to try and change things within the labor party. is that going to be easy? no, it's not. but they really have to change their attitude. you have heard what corbyn has been saying. let us see if the words get into action, which is really what is so absolely relevant today. >> you know, some people have said that this anti-semitism really -- it just -- well, for many reasons, it shouldn't be happening. one of the affects of it, the side effect is that it blurs the line of legitimate criticism of let's say israeli government policy, government policy, for instance over the politics and peace process and the rest of it. does that concern you? >> well, i reall

first, in the instance i just cited, as well as in the burgeoning labor movement, conservative labor movement, called the american federation of labor, the easiest to recruit were not the most oppressed. it was the skilled and semi-skilled laborers who were the easiest to organize, and of course the hardest to fire. if you have a guy whose job is just to carry bricks, you can replace him. ut if you have somebody who is a plumber, you can't just pull somebody off the street. so it is the skilled laborers who are also organizing, but who are also a lot less radical. and something else going on -- a couple of other points i want to make -- is that these are workers, both skilled and the unskilled i am talking about, who are important for what they are not doing. they are not resisting technology and industrialization. they are not trying to fight a retrograde, let's go back to the old days, but they are trying to make the new world more egalitarian and something else going on with the working class in this time period was not just to be political, but to create a working class and revol

in the first assembly elections of one nine hundred ninety nine and two within a whisker of ending labor supremacy of world politics in this interview he explains why i played unlike the s.n.p. have never managed to build on that success but i guess it breaks it may be about to change the political landscape of wales but first your tweets messages and emails and in the nation to ensure a couple of weeks ago with lembit or pick and peter tatchell son campbell says to heartfelt interviews last night we sometimes forget what our politicians do after losing their seat it's not always back to an inherited family business absolutely so suzanne when finlayson says in relation to last week's show great interview with alex neil what an interesting life he's had i wish the show was an hour long or be about mind caroline says fascinating reflective and candid discussion i hope more people take time to watch it as kindly carling and finally arthur said fascinating walk through of devolution history great interview and a big yes to the model for an independent scotland or thanks arthur i'm now over t

gave labor the opportunity to elect the person. they wanted rhodri morgan now roger morgan was a charming person here he's dead now of course and. we wouldn't. pay every homage to him for the role he played what he did was to make the national assembly relevant to be put in there every day like it was he was seen as the man in the street in wales and labor benefited from that we were out of focus for a while and also went to the place of power in wales as a junior partner in government never an easy position that was after two thousand and seven when we did have an opportunity then to form a coalition against labor and we were well on the road towards that played as the largest party and we would then have been leading a government with support of conservatives and lived. and the lib dems decided by a casting vote i think it was the literature lives cast that vote in their meeting against coming into a coalition now whether it worked or not i don't know i was out of the seventy by then of course you're in windows as leading played

devolve parliament we know wales had a bad result the labor party whose policy it was of course they were split down the middle and people like neil kinnock were leading the campaign against evolution of their time and it was four to one majority against and i'll be honest i thought that probably in my lifetime the thing was dead but over the subsequent term couple of decades things did change and i was glad to be in a position to influence those changes in your own constituency us triumphantly on from move large majority to larger majority leader maybe a few s.n.p. colleagues at that table fell by the wayside in the aftermath of the tory victory of seven tonight because of the seventy nine vote of confidence who was a phenomenal voter and a labor lost by one vote and that was from northern ireland who came along and abstained in person it was a historic site and we had negotiated the package with the labor government important things like compensation to slay quarrymen and half a dozen other things which they did deliver fair play to them although they lost by one vote there was a s

are we making sure the labor force and skillsets of the labor force grow? can we get productivity back up, right, which determines the long run growth rate of the economy. all of those things are the front and center issues i worry about. i worry about them more than where we are on monetary policy at this point. >> is debt of concern? >> that's one of the issues about where we are right now. someone asked the question about the fiscal situation. that's one of the uncertainties. it's a plus for growth over the forecast horizon over the next two to three years. then, what happens as we go forward? at some point, we have to reconcile the debt and make sure we put the fiscal situation on a sustainable path, which means either talking about entitlements, right, reducing government spending, increasing taxes again. we have to get back to a sustainable fiscal situation. now, if the growth rate of the underlying growth rate of the economy picks up, that can help. again, there's uncertainty around that. yes, that's something to think about. that has implications fo

i'm in labor. so they began to push down salaries and used to be that now you have 46 that it was getting worse and they begin to walkway. the don't really need these jobs, their school teachers and go back home. luckily for the mill owners along comes the irish family that bailed them out. you get this flood of irish immigrants coming in the mid- 1840s and rapidly within decades he replaces the new england workforce. the context is different there fleeing starvation so they began to cut early for the next half century. slowly but surely there are the mill towns and right before world war i they go from a commercial utopia. >> the steel industry was developing and still is kind of a symbol of a nation of industrial might. can you talk about why the steel industry is so important white located in the pittsburgh area? >> is different because it's mostly making capital goods from other industries. in the beginning the key is the rail system. that's what the industry grows up on eventually you have mac

labor leader jeremy call been calling for an inquiry into arms sales to israel after it kills all thousands in palestine the grandson of a signatory to the israeli independence we go and read talks to us about injustice the story of the holy land foundation five plus from this week's headlines war on syria the shooting unarmed civilians by israel and palestine told us more coming up in this first episode of a brand new season of going underground but first while we have been away it is arguably become obvious teresa mayes case against russia is falling apart could only russia really have been responsible for attacks on british spies scruple and his daughter no one is still really given a satisfactory explanation for this statement from the boss of britain's top secret chemical warfare lab after foreign secretary boris johnson claimed porton down told him russia was responsible for the chemical attack on british soil we haven't yet been able to do that and of contradicting boris johnson who still remains foreign secretary at the time this show is being recorded isn't bad enough there was thi

remind moderate even as labor markets continue to strengthen, suggesting labors markets haven't been as tight as i'm assuming and i recently moved down my longer estimate of the unemployment rate down by a quarter percentage point, to 4 1/2%. i inspect the unemployment rate to move below 4% this year, and to remain below 4% next year. so, overall, my assessment remains from the standpoint of the cyclical conditions, monetary policy can address, we're under the maximum employment part of the fed's monetary policy mandate. the other part of the fed mandate is price stability. the fomc has a symmetrical 2% and inflation is measured by the year of your change, and the price index for personal consumption expenditures, that's pc inflation. now, sem metric means 2% inflation goal isn't a ceiling. fomc would be concerned if inflation were persistently above or below this goal and persistent deviations warrant a policy response. when inflation measures can vary from month to month because of ideosyncratic factors and disturbances. sometimes inflation will be above and sometimes below 2%. whi

labor m.p. moments later my constituency me who lives with a chronic disabling illness has worked all his life until finishing on medical grounds three years ago since two thousand and two he's received disability living allowance last year was transferred transferred to pip and his mobility allowance was cut yesterday anthony hounded by his mobility vehicle for sixteen years and today he is house and fearful for his future. of the system means that he now faces a nine month wait for his appeal to the liverpool tribunals for juries in may said she was sorry to hear it but if pam paugh personal independence payments for britain's most vulnerable were a casualty of the city bailout there is a way that to raise a may has helped britain money the tragedy as always is the defense industry and the politicians do incredibly well out of. this is my nephew who was injured last night by the air strike two brothers were killed. a clip from marty's extensive coverage of a british backed strike on a wedding

the labor. the samebor is -- amount of time is bestowed, why should not the compensation be the same? radical republicans including palmer roy led the change, and some democrats, who supported slavery, which created great amounts of cognitive dissonance. if a laborer has two heads in one hand and another labor has two hands in one head, should they not be paid the same? we were arguing something very different years ago. the arguments for equality were straightforward. this is the just thing to do. they were in tune with the ideological rhetoric of equality permeating the nations capital at the time. the men who advocated equal pay believed the government should be a force of social change. senator bill gates from illinois called on his fellow senators to set an example that labor performed by anyone should have a fair reward and there be perfect equality between american citizens without reference to color, race, or sex. we've been fighting about this for a long time. not every congressman ascr

fool time research officer of the labor party in scotland the scottish council of the labor party it was kind of very limited of course because of the same p.-six ace in the.

remained moderate even as labor markets continue to strengthen, suggest that labor market conditions may not be as tight as i had been assuming. so i recently moved my own estimate of the longer-run unemployment rate down by 1/4 percentage point, to 4.5%. i expect the unemployment rate to move below 4% this year and to remain below 4% next year. overall, my assessment remains that from the standpoint of the cyclical conditions monetary policy can address, we are slightly beyond the maximum employment part of the fed's monetary policy mandate. the other part of the fed's mandate is price stability. the fomc has set a symmetric goal of 2% inflation, as measured by the year-over-year change in the price index for personal consumption expenditures, that is, pce inflation. symmetric means that the 2% inflation goal isn't a ceiling, the fomc would be concerned if inflation were running persistently above or persistently below this goal and such persistent deviations warrant a policy response. but inflation measures can vary from month to month because of idiosyncratic factors and in respon

labor m.p. moments later my constituent to me who lives with a chronic disabling illness has worked all his life until finishing on medical grounds three years ago since two thousand and two he's received disability living allowance but last year was transferred transferred to pip and his mobility allowance was cut yesterday anthony hundred. move. for sixteen years and today he's housebound and fearful for his future. of the system means that he now faces a nine month wait for his appeal but liverpool tribunals for drazen may said she was sorry to hear it but if for personal independence payments for britain's most vulnerable recounts of the city bailout there is a way that to raise a may has helped britain money the tragedy is always is the defense industry and the politicians do incredibly well out of war this is my nephew who was injured last night by the air strike he's two brothers were killed. a clip there from marty's extensive coverage of a british back to strike on a wedding in yemen in

labor m.p. moments later my constituency me who lives with a chronic disabling illness has worked all his life until finishing on medical grounds three years ago since two thousand and two he's received disability living allowance last year was transferred transferred to pip and his mobility allowance was cut yesterday anthony hundred. he's hyped for sixteen years and today he is housebound and fearful for his future. of the system means that he now faces a nine month wait for his appeal to the liverpool tribunals services drazen may said she was sorry to hear it but if for personal independence payments for britain's most vulnerable recounts of the city bail out there is a way that to raise a may has helped britain money the tragedy is always is the defense industry and the politicians do incredibly well out of war this is my nephew who was injured last night by the year strike he's two brothers were killed. a clip there from marty's extensive coverage of a british back to strike on a wedding i

because a labor government, a labor government would wreck our economy, would damage people's jobs, that would destroy, that would tax people and end up with debt for future jengdss. it's not a labor government that is kind or fair to anybody. >> john lemon. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i'm sure the whole house will want to pass on its condolences to the family of matt campbell who sadly died taking part in the london marathon. will the prime minister join me in congratulating the 40,000 members who completed the marathon raising huge amounts of money for local charities and good causes across the united kingdom and in particular, issue wish to thank the volunteers, ambulance and medic staff who made the event as safe as possible. >> he shouldn't be too shy about it. >> first of all, may i join my honorable friend in paying tribute to matt campbell. and i understand his just giving page has now raised over $140,000 for the trust which works to inspire vulnerable young people to make positive changes in their lives. i'm sure members across the house will want to join me in offering condolen

again, it's an example of using this labor's capital to advance the interests of labor. but rick also said something i wanted to touch on which is about a backlash and about the forces on the other side. because in order to engage in this kind of maneuver that i'm talking about, the use of labor's capital to advance, yes, their retirement funds and advance their interests, okay? in order to do that, what you need are things like calpers and the new york city funds, these big pension funds that collectively -- the workers in these funds are not wealthy at all. they are working class, middle class people, okay? they're not individually wealthy. but when you aggregate those retirement funds into, what, calpers or is $350 billion now, suddenly that's an investor that people really listen to, that wall street really listens to. i provide a lot of examples in the book of how they can exercise that power. one of the more, you know, amusing ones was, you know, a number of these funds were invested in hedge funds, and the hedge funds were turning around and taking, say, teacher p

chemical attacks in history yes israel being blamed for what tony blair and his room of the british labor party in the palace of westminster want the u.k. to do bomb syria and destroy president assad secular government which is winning the war against british backed extremists on the ground extremists who wish to do harm on the streets of europe not that britain is only aiding groups like the white helmets linked to al qaeda british soldiers are also risking their lives against islamist apparently the british man was a member of the s.a.'s he is the first soldier to be killed as a result of enemy action in the fight against islamic state yes in the past few days the british people discovered that there are u.k. boots on the ground in syria on the same side as the assad government defacto but then the s.e.'s has always been a british regiment shrouded in secrecy belfast west m.p. and westminster reference their actions of thirty years ago on this program they are not armed and officials and officials were shot there on the straits of gibraltar and i think it was a terrible tragedy of terri

let's get some more insight into the european labor market with mark as well he's a senior economist at the university of sound gal in switzerland thank you for coming in this morning marcus the overall employment in the european union has been on a steady rise in the last five years now with new political leadership in france and italy do you think that the divide between the better performing north and the underperforming south is a thing of the past. well whether it's a thing of the pos i don't know but it's clearly not any more the north and seller starvation it's far the more reform or not reform distinguishment you see france which is doing a lot of reforms you see italy which doesn't do any reforms at the moment now i want to talk about france in in just a second let's let's focus on italy or first you say there are no reforms being done there but the unemployment rate in italy has fallen to its lowest level in five years but they're still at the very end of the labor market situation in europe and if you take the g.d.p. to debt ratio it's one hundred thirty five percent at th

alan: i care about labor force. last week we saw a big jump in labor force. if that continues. --or force protection participation has been stable. i like to see if we are going to see workers coming back to the labor force. that provides an extra cushion which allows the fed to move more slowly. alix: they're different explanations to people coming back in. what did your work show? alan: fewer people are retiring it. fewer people are leaving the labor force. we don't see people coming back. we see some people who been out of work come back, not many come back through unemployment. total, we see the a continued slowdown in the transition from being back in the labor force. fewer people are leaving. david: are they staying in the labor force longer because they live longer and feel better? or do they make less money and they don't have a retirement savings? alan: there is a lot of both of that. the group that has done well in the economy is healthy as they get older. they stay in longer. the group that can't afford to retire are staying in the labor force long

we are in a severe labor crisis. we have severe worker shortage because these wages aren't retaining workers. they are not attracting workers. the workers are being pushed out to mooutto mowoutto modesto. you are responsible. you need to bring up the wages to keep the workers. a note. we did a living wage questionnaire to all of the mayoral candidates. the next person whose most likely to become mayor, those candidates answered they are 100% behind this and behind funding nonprofits to make sure this happens. >> thank you, mr. cramer. next speaker. come on down. >> i am with the teamters 856. i want to hit two key points. the sister from hsn made a comment before she was cut off about a community discussion. that is a point i want to raise. this committee is very important. you have the ability to give voice to both sides of this argument. i am on the side of the workers. i will tell you at the full board of supervisors peboard ofe they deserve to see their workers and the other groups deserve to hear this debate and

we're comparing the numbers of the bureau of labor statistics and the labor department came out during trump administration and during the obama administration, and we have seen significant growing and significant increases in the amount of people that are working and the amount of jobs that are open and benefits to the minority communes like the african-americans have never been better in the job market than they are today. >> the book is the capitalist comeback, the trump boom, and the left's plot to stop it. the author, andy puzder. you can find him on twitter,@andy puzder. you appreciate your time. >> guest: i hope people will buy the book and give it a chance. thank you. >> for nearly 20 years, deputy depth on book therefore has featuredded the nation's best known nonfiction writers to are live conversations but their books. this year is a special project, we're featuring best selling fiction writers for the program "in depth" fiction edition. join us with david baldacci, "the fallen" is a other novels cloud" end game, i "the fix, absolute power, which was major motion picture and

the labor markets are tight. and there's been an enormous success for people reattaching to the labor force. i think the standards people are right to emphasize that's an important objective in the policies. i think that the great recession had some policies that separated people from the labor force in a way that didn't make much sense. i think the unkbt insurance extension made people into long-term unemployed people hard to reattach .affordable care act raised marginal tax on a work and did a lot of stuff to drive it down. but it's reverseening and it's kinning. and i'm hopeful process -- i'm hopeful by the time we write the economic report of the president and release it neck nesh february that we'll have a significantly more optimistic forecast for labor force participation than in this economic report. and it was because -- you know, whenever you suggest that something is going do break off a trend then it's somewhat of a risky forecasts, right. but it seems that that's really in the data right now. there i

ring has a distinguished record in labor negotiation. i would urge my colleagues to join me in voting to confirm him today. after mr. ring, the senate will turn to the nomination of pat pizzella to serve as deputy secretary of labor. the fact that this cabinet agency has gone 15 months without its number two official is yet another testament to the historic obstruction visited on this administration by senate democrats. he's been sitting on the calendar for six months despite his ample qualifications. i would urge all of our colleagues to vote to finally advance mr. pizzella's nomination. on another matter this week we've been discussing the stark difference between the obama administration's agenda and the policies that president trump and this republican congress have implemented. during the obama years, the overwhelming majority of all the limited new growth and new jobs went to the biggest and richest urban areas. times were good. if you happen to live in new york, san francisco, or a few other places. but if you were one of the mill

it aids labor and labor can be more productive. so what about other system attention of doing this? central planning for example. socialism, we had a guy running for president a while back, that bernie something -- the sand nista were involved i think. he talked about socialism, central planning. maybe that works. now mises in the book liberalism. he says social ifts wants to accomplish the same thing capital ifts do thp they want to create wealth for the poor but the system can't do it. now in 1850 there was a bock called "the law" where he argued that socialists wanted the world shaped in whatever image they have. if we act according to our own plan it's not turning out. mises is saying that isn't why people are social ichts. they want people wealthy and the problem is it can't happen. why? two big problems. one is the incentive problem. high pressure how do you get people to work hard? now, what does adam smith say? he says we don't rely upon the bennive lens of butcher or baker we rely on self-interest. you will never find abou

other labor supporters have even chosen to embrace the accusations. now the report does not comment on who specifically was behind the campaign or how many people actually saw the tweets nor does it say whether or not the attempt was successful but the point is if a vote comes up with shocking results there's clearly no other plausible explanation apart from the russians did it we asked the newspaper to comment on the investigation meantime former m i five officer sean says it's all just part of a clamp down on alternative futures. the west does not like dissent it does not like alternative views and the internet offered people the old the chance of developing these alternative news and as soon as you have one of those alternative viewpoints in the west you must of course be working as one of putin's useful idiots or as a russian troll bottle whatever it is we saw this last week as well there was a report on sky news and they were accusing two accounts particularly on twitter saying that they are russia russia but they were human beings and so sky new

cruising maybe because labor couzens been riding the high lately they get it goals in their last two albums and there are side effects had no trouble when you know the rock this season turning a league second best twenty five points. welcome to the brothers they get here on t w by prince harry seen bringing a new match day thirty one and the european qualification run who has the insurance to finish the season strong let's find out here's what's coming up. a prime time match up it's acknowledged in the park between dortmund in labor couzin besides or even on the table with fifty one points wolf i doubt who is hungry for the champions league and will take you out to leipzig where rb hosted club and i'm in a class of european hopefuls claim at red bull arena might not be an advantage in this one. let's start with the fifty one point tiebreaker between so black and yellowstone and labor coups. dortmund coach peter. admitted to the press that his side was still suffering from the royal blues after losing to rival shaka last weekend but understood whether he goes or not this summer they'r

we also work closely with city departments in labor negotiations. those departments typically serve on the city's negotiating committees. in this instance, it is one city department that is impacted, the police department, and we work very closely with the executive leadership team in that department to work our way through the various issues that are in the contract. we do hope and our intention is to reach a negotiationed agreement and present this to the board of supervisors for consideration. but if we do not achieve that, and we deadlock and we cannot reach agreement, then the matter is submitted to a tripart item arbitration panel, and the factors that that panel must consider are enumerated in the charter and i just want to make sure everybody's aware of what they are. they're very common. they can essentially be describeds described as the conditions dealing with out in the community versus what the department can pay for awards. the amount paid for goods and services, the wages paid to employees performing services compared to other departm

to strengthen labor protections. the only bill the leader would bring to the floor is one that was divisive and destined to fail, a political act, not an act to help indian country. the a.f.l. said the passage of the measure, quote, would have amounted to the most aggressive erosion of labor protection since the 1940's. after many years of waiting for tribal issues to reach the floor, i think many of us were sorely disappointed that the majority leader opted for this incredibly divisive bill done in such an incredibly divisive way. i hope now that the measure has failed to advance the majority leader would consent to putting other tribal bills on the floor, so many of which have broad bipartisan support and could pass at least the senate. on another issue, russia and mueller. yesterday, it was reported that president trump overruled a decision of his administration to implement new sanctions against russia for its support of the brutal assad regime in syria in the wake of a chemical weapons attack that was devastatin