we're joined live now by a columnist max profit studio in new york thank you for talking to us mr frog wall the biggest number of americans in fifty years and you're now unemployed what do these figures reveal about the state of america's so-called recovery from recession . well seeing numbers this large one in seven american adults living in poverty in just about one in four to five american children shows us that the sheer numbers and the percentage of americans who are being systematically failed by the american economy is now in its fourth year of significant increase and it gives you a little bit of a taking of the temperature of just how severe the pain is in so many households and so many neighborhoods and so many cities so many states so many towns at the same time president obama is suggesting the new data from the u.s. census bureau could have been much worse what do you think. well i hope that's the challenge for next year because there's every indication from the data flow that next year will be worse than this year because the numbers that we're looking at today and in two