organization who knows the field very well is joining in the fight for universal health care rights national nurses united and it's and it's nearly take i'll tell you why don't worry be happy should really be our nation saw . if you thought the recent job numbers were bad with the unemployment rate ticking up to nine point one percent take a look at the unemployment rate for teenagers based on last month's job numbers nearly a quarter of all sixteen to nineteen year olds looking for a job or even a summer job are unemployed in california that number is as high as thirty four percent it's no wonder though considering that people with master's degrees can't even find a job donald's or recent job fair collected over one million applications for about sixty thousand job openings and nationwide corporations only hired fifty four thousand americans in may you know your economy is screwed when sixteen year olds are competing with master's degree holding engineers or burger of burger flipping jobs but the bigger problem lies in the long term effects of youth unemployment studies have shown the students who gradua

campaign carried out by national nurses united in the progressive democrats of america campaign is raising awareness about our deteriorating health care system it's bankrupting millions of americans and leaving them sick with nowhere to go and while this is going on our nation is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on endless wars in the middle east so the choice is pretty simple if we keep funding black hole wars or start making americans healthy again at a national nurses united progressive democrats of america took their message to the streets of washington d.c. it was rationed were held outside the white house congress and the u.s. chamber of commerce also and in attendance were high profile community leaders and lawmakers including senators bernie sanders and barbara boxer and president richard trumka for more on this day of action and where we all go from here i'm joined by three members of progressive democrats of america norman solomon john smith and tim carpenter welcome to all of you here we thank you for first of all what happened today to me are the the the big cheese of s

around this issue about making wall street paid for the concept that the nomic price the national nurses united which is a. union representing registered nurses is doing a big rally on wall street on june twenty second and it's part of a global day of action on this issue around tax thing financial speculation they'll be groups in at least twenty five countries taking similar action so there is tremendous momentum we need to be ready for when that political opportunity constitution ideas like this through and i think if they can get such taxes implemented in europe they start raising a lot of money off of it in the sky doesn't come falling down policymakers here are going to have to take a second look at this and think maybe this isn't such a dumb idea maybe we do need that revenue and we should be following nearly absolute very i wrote a piece for common dreams on the steps back in two thousand and eight suggesting we should have it pointed out that we financed the civil war with the tax we financed the spanish-american war with the tax we stopped and then we started one thousand nine hundred

federal policy we've seen it in the states people have got incredibly charged up tomorrow national nurses united and other folks are going to be here in washington trying to put forward some of these issues in a big way my sense is that if these sorts of demands really were into play you wouldn't have thousands you would have hundreds of thousands at those rallies because the people do get it i think you're absolutely right john thanks for the great to see you thanks for. never in the history of the world as a nation cut its way to prosperity after world war two when our debt as a percentage of g.d.p. was far higher than it is today president harry truman and republican president dwight eisenhower used government spending to grow our economy out of debt republicans know this they know spending cuts will harm our economy yet here they are pushing for cuts anyway because as mitch mcconnell said making president obama one term president and not fixing the economy is their number one priority. is jon stewart singlehandedly bringing down fox news. as part of the recent nielsen ratings the daily show

nurse engaged in afghanistan. nato and non-nato united nations plays an important role in special representative of the secretary general performed the role in iraq cooperated closely with the name look forward to doing the same in afghanistan. as i said earlier in a slightly different context, afghanistan is not a uniquely american problem. it is a threat to international peace and security and requires an ongoing international commitment. so you know, what role they play in not is still something to be sorted out, but clearly i believe i will have a role to play. >> i thank you for your answer. i think it's going to be a real challenge. we are not necessarily paying salaries are competing with the afghan conference. we are plain salaries and giving cash bonuses will of the reasonable salaries teammate friends of afghans, which ends up supporting a corrupt system. thank you. >> senator corker. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. ambassador, i am here out of respect for u.s.a. you as a personality fit in their foreign policy. we've had an extensive conversation in our office. you know, general petraeus has asked that we sup

national honor society of nursing. here's the problem. julietta is undocumented, cannot legally work in the united states of america. let me tell you something else about her. she is married to staff sergeant arman weinrich who serves in the reserves. here is a picture of them at her graduation. staff sergeant wi nrick is awaiting deploying. he will go overseas to serve our country but while he's wrong his wife could be deported. that is wrong. julietta sent me a letter. i desperately need the dream act to pass so i can practice my beloved profession of nursing. i've been dreaming of being a nurse for the past seven years since i earned my license. once the dream act passes i'll join the military in hopes of making up for lost time and serve the country i call home as a nurse. do we need more nurses in america? of course we do. in fact, the united states imports thousands of foreign trained nurses each year to meet the needs of our country. what's wrong with this picture? this young lady has a master's degree in nursing from the university of texas. and i'm sure my colleague on the floor would acknowledge one of the