there are lot of reasons people look at the unemployed versus the employed. unemployed, olongapo? if somebody can explain the reason they have been unemployed for so long. -- unemployed, for how long? \ this bill would punish people who took a job for a short time or took a lesser job. that does not seem fair. the person who is hiring for company, his job is to hire the best person for that company. that includes skill, consistency, reliability. another reason people might hire somebody who is employed over unemployed might be that person will be more committed to the job because they're willing to leave another job to come and work for you. the person who leaves that job to come and work for you is creating another job that is open for another person to get employed as well. so i think this is another ploy. the administration doesn't think to increase their voting base. host: ellen on twitter -- helen. you can also join the conversation on facebook. here's what susan has to say. let's go to fairmont, minnesota. betty on our independent line. caller: i am so involved in what you ar

the unemployed, of course, still haven't recovered from the last one, and chip reid found part of their story here in seattle. >> come here! >> reporter: dale bridenbaugh of seattle is all smiles when she is playing with her dog but ask her about being unemployed for three years and the mood change is dramatic. >> sorry. the potential to lose my home. >> reporter: rose belongs to the 54% of unemployed americans who say their household financial situation is bad compared to only 30% of americans overall. rose and her husband have also joined the 53% of unemployed americans who raided their savings to get by. >> we've used all of our 401(k)s. we're almost through all of that. i was one of those people that was prepared. we did have money put aside. >> reporter: in columbus, ohio, melody proper, unemployed for three years, skips meals it make sure her two children get fed. >> i don't have enough money to be able to afford groceries for three meals a day every day for all three of us. so i'm not going to starve my children. >> reporter: her mother, gloria kelber, laid off almost two years a

in today's "european journal," hungary introduces forced labor for the long-term unemployed. the people of iceland are struggling to recover from financial disaster. protecting europe's waterways. if you are out of work in hungary, you are out of luck. prime minister viktor orban wants people to earn their keep. the daily commute of up to two hours is considered reasonable. >> near the hungarian village, roma have been working eight hours a day to remove the brush from the mountains. if they refuse, the welfare payments will be cut off. last spring, roma in this village were terrorized by neo nazis. >> we're happy to work. we do not see the sense in this. it grows back. we have to climb many kilometers on foot. we wonder why only roma are given this hard work. not one single hungarian welfare recipient. >> they have received no answer for that. in the future, all participants are to participate in a mandatory make work scheme. he is very fit and used to be in the military. >> i wanted to retrain to do a computer course. they told me i had to supervise these workers first or lo

it's depressing. >> reporter: just one of the unemployed here. >> i wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. >> reporter: james hammond stood in line like the rest of them. >> for lack of a better term this is not my first road joe. i've been to quite a few job fairs in and -- rodeo. i've been to quite a few job fairs in and around town. >> reporter: are you working now? >> no. wish i was. >> reporter: how tough is it out there? >> it's tough, but you got to roll with the punches and keep moving. >> reporter: lorraine friday said she joined the ranks of the unemployed two tweaks ago. >> doing well yourself? -- two tweaks ago. >> doing well yourself? >> reporter: a lot -- two weeks ago. >> reporter: a lot better if she got the job. aldi's needs to fill all kinds of poxes from cashiers to store managers -- positions from cashiers to store managers, the pay ranging from 11.50 to $23 an hour. how would you describe your frame of mine right now? >> very excited -- mind right now? >> very excited. >> reporter: in northeast bob barnard, fox 5 news. >>> if you're hoping to score extra work over the

jobs at the center of almost every debate and protest. that's why a group of unemployed workers plan on gathering here along the russel street bridge this evening. the unemployed workers chose the bridge because it shares the message saying this bridge needs work and so do we. estimated 30 million americans are without work. this the senate is expected to make a vote on president obamas $447 billion american jobs act bill. economists say it could create 2 million jobs to cut payroll taxes, extend unemployment benefits and provide money to keep workers on the job. the unemployed workers say they support the bill. he says the bill is his top priority. republicans say it will do little to help create jobs. >> things you can do to boost that will temporarily create more jobs next year. >> reporter: now experts say this bill is unlikely to pass in the entirety. the hundreds of workers are expected to gather along the bridge around 5:45 this evening. reporting live from downtown baltimore, kuren redmond, abc2 news. >>> candlelight vigil held in kansas city organized by neighbo

not have five star accommodations but they sure do have five star food all thanks to this man the unemployed chef feeding the movement for free. and it's the sounds of liberation as millions celebrate in a post darfur libya but with infrastructure destroyed and thousands dead are the people forgetting about the road they took to get to this point and choosing to ignore the road ahead. good afternoon it is tuesday october twenty fifth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you're watching our t.v. . starting off this afternoon at libya's interim rule an ounce today that gadhafi his body has been laid to rest at a secret location this so it doesn't become a shrine to his supporters meanwhile thousands from libya's new ruling class are devoting their time and energy to rejoicing instead of attending the present task of rebuilding their country so with routine water shortages thousands dead and the country's infrastructure largely destroyed are the people ignoring the price that's country paid for freedom argues a new so now he is on the ground in tripoli and has this report. of liberation

the unemployed worker whose will gather say they support the bill. obama says right now the bill is his top priority. republicans say the bill will do little to help create jobs. >> we have a difference of opinion with the white house on how best to create jobs. we don't think doubling down on failed policies which have proven to fail is the right way to go. >> reporter: now, hundreds are expected to gather here along the bridge. their vigil starts around 5:45 this evening. kuren redmond, abc2 news. >>> washington dc, antiwar protesters and antiwall street demonstrators joined forces. they marched through the streets chanting, holding signs. antiwar demonstrators gathered outside the space museum. the museum display a military drones used in the war. police had to use pepper spray when the crowd strides tried to force its way inside the building. >>> signs in hands organizers say their mission is to pro fuss on the political influence of wall street and corporate mark and targeting the disparity between the wealthiest americans and the poorest. >>> p

government constantly changes the definition of who's unemployed and they do that so that the unemployment number looks lower and then it otherwise would be bad when part time workers and the unemployed who have given up hope are factored in the real u.s. unemployment rate increases to more than sixteen percent a more telling but often ignored statistic and they were included then you know what would happen now is that they truly have a major crisis on and and they have something you know this is part of the problem and it can be a little austan continue the status quo and society starts breaking down broken down and in ruins the city of detroit is feeling the full force of america's economic decline one in three residents live below the poverty line half of the city's public schools are closing and crime is skyrocketing the capital of the country's motor industry now has an official unemployment rate of just under thirty percent but city officials and residents like to know be a jeffries say the real figure is close to fifty how do you describe it it is. i think if. indicativ

warnings that the unemployed need not apply. has 150 examples of possible discrimination and mick tobin has more on that. >> reporter: there is outrage about online hiring ads. dozens state clearly they want to fill job vacancies with people who have jobs. >> and we were surprised to find over 100 ads that stated theup employed won't be considered. if you see 100 ads, you know it's probably happening in thousands and thousands more. >> reporter: critics label it discrimination against the unemployed. activists say it unfairly targets minorities as blacks and hispanics visit have a higher rate of unemployment. lawmakers want to stop it. >> and that is what you do. create a permanent class of unemployable people and that is unacceptable. >> and i&they propose legislation. the president included a ban on hiring discrimination in his american jobs act o. top of, that a group pressured lawmakers for regulation. >> if the legislation is passed, it can end up preventing employers from hiring. they are scared if they don't give someone t

god to see someone hiring but it doesn't put a dent in the 14 million unemployed in the country.n cain is rising in the polls and the 9-9-9 plan is getting all of the attention but if he is going to win he cannot just run on a tax plan. let me ask you about a social question that links in to the unemployment. bob johnson was on cnn this morning. obviously the founder of bet. he was talking about african-american unemployment, and he says he has a plan that will fix unemployment among african-americans in america. here he is. >> companies who are seeking to hire vps or above or to issue contracts to businesses would voluntarily and i stress voluntarily agree to interview at least two african-american qualified candidates. >> america still need affirmative action? >> well, let's talk about how i would address that same problem. i believe in a parliament zones. most of the unemployed black americans in this country are in these mostly economically depressed areas. it could be, and i'm only using this as an example because we haven't finish ed establishing the parameters yet. instead

if you can't stand up for the unemployed, we're going to vote to make sure you join the unemployed. washington was a mob. they're not a mob, they are saying what we're saying -- that you cannot act like this country is your playground while single mothers can't take care of their famili families, you have schools that don't have enough money to give us the teachers that can teach us. then you want to demonize teachers. you want to cut the teachers, you want to cut the firemen, you want to cut the policemen, you want to cut the municipal workers while you take care of your tycoons. we are telling you, look at the mob today, we're just getting started. we're getting ready to organize. let's demand our rights. we're dr. king's children. we're coretta king's children. we're not going to bow down. we're n

among the people unemployed in this cit 60% have college degrees. this is an effort to say to employers we want to be a partner with you. we w want to solve the unemployment problem, and also help you fill the vacancies that you have. >> let's get to the gap. there are some. you talk about the skills gap. there are 51,000 advertise to jojob openings, 36,000 unemployed residents, but not the right residents to fill those jobs in all cases. let's turn to other issues of concern, starting with schools. you are facing tough budget times, and one of the places seeing cuts is the school system. are you worried you are creating a long-term pblem? >> we did not cut the schools.. we had $187 million. >> you had teacher layoffs. >> not this year.. anyone who left left because of performance issues, not because we have to reduce the budget. we had no layoffs of teachers in this last cycle, over the summer going into the fall. so, we are investing in schools because we recocognize the long- term answer to this problem is to have an educated sophisticated work fo

hiring a teacher in alaska is not going to help the unemployed guy in pittsburgh. >> i feel like i am the bill murray in "groundhog day," because we come back to the same things -- >> tax reform. everybody agrees you take out the loopholes and lower the rates. it worked in 1986, and republicans and democrats. nobody will do it, especially the president. he should have been beating on this. the number one item in that bowles-simpson report was tax reform. he had that a year ago in december, he did nothing. >> why did they just put their arms around -- didn't they put their arms around bowles- simpson? .> they should have t >> he asked a question -- why didn't they? >> political consultants' never ask their clients to do something hard. >> he is the president of united states. >> "oh, that would be a mistake." >> he almost did something like simpson-bowles with john boehner, and john boehner backed out. he had his consultants, his constituency, who said it now. -- said no. >> i am not an apologist for the white house, but he cannot do tax reform with one side. when you have somebody lik

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i think it is the height of hypocrisy for us to dedicate a memorial and not deal with the d a unemployedhat dr. king died fighting for. we also in the justice part are dealing with the fact we have serious threats to the voting rights act. when we look at the voter express techniques, there has been no outcry about protecting our right to vote. so from jobs to justice, we need to deal with this. >> why do you think that is? because we just heard from john harwood, this poll that just came out, it shows that an overwhelming number of people in this country when asked support additional taxes on the wealthy. and overwhelming number of people in this country when asked support the president's jobs bill. why do you think there is such a disconnect between people hen asked and legislators in washington? >> because i think we've not brought the fight to the legislators in washington. that's why people are coming by the thousands saturday to join this march because the legislators need to nderstand they need to top talking in a echo chamber to each other positioning politically and deal with

not have a five star accommodations but they sure do have five star food all thanks to this man the unemployed chef feeding the movement for free. and it's the sound of liberation as millions celebrate in a post gadhafi libya but with infrastructure destroyed and thousands dead other people forgetting about the road they took to get to this point and perhaps also choosing to ignore the road ahead. it is tuesday october twenty fifth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for zahau watching our team. our top story this evening i want to take a look at the economy and for many it is a snapshot of rising unemployment and standards of living that continue to fall with no end in sight these are just a few of the reasons thousands of americans across the country have joined the occupy wall street movement frustration and anger many say have reached their boiling points here in washington the occupy d.c. protest has doubled in size as more and more people say they want not only to protest but to make sure their voices are heard by those in the white house and those on capitol hill they say it's imp

it was not speaking about the unemployed generally. the point on it randall kennedy, he has written about this recently. there seems to be right now, even within the african-american community, there are divergent groups. for example, there was a powerful member of the congressional black caucus who has been outspoken in her opposition. she thinks it is a perceived slight by the white house that president obama has not endeared himself to the african-american community at large. it is almost a grudging support. even al sharpton is using the opportunity to say we have got to get together. jock -- tom joyner says we have to vote for the president because he is black. it is a mentality of circling the wagons. maybe that is a part of herman cain -- >> what you really crazy thing is that if he is really pushed out in front, the unintended consequence would be like maxine waters and tavis smiley, and they would start to come back to the president because i would say, ok, this is our alternative. >> i would like to remind everybody that we're

the unemployed left wing 25-year-old holding up a sign? he judea capitalist bankster who wind the american taxpayers out of a trillion dollars in the bail-out scan?" they are asking supporters to stand with the protesters to list event and time in various cities. occupy wall street previously received praise from venezuela hugo chavez and iranian supreme leader ayatollah khomeini. >>> the american pub slick not sure who is at fault for the economy. survey on the hill finds 56% of likely voters feel washington is more to blame for the financial crisis and recession compared to 33% who say wall street is the problem. mexican border town juarez is not on the list of your top travel destinations but officials there want to change that. city is trying to draw crowds with 16-day festival of concert, ballet and speeches. it includes former new york mayor rudy giuliani and former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev. organizers say the crime rate is down about 50% in the last six months but there still been nearly 9,000 drug violence killings in that ci

of his father. >> it all raises a question, can successful politicians relate to the pain of the unemployed. >> some of these republican candidates are not using common touch right now. you are seeing the reactions of it and some people that say, these guys just don't get it. >> i'm proud. >> rick perry was raised in a farmhouse that didn't have running water. he is now worth at least a million dollars. herman cain is worth $3-6 million and been blunt with those without a job? >> don't blame wall street and don't blame the big banks. if you don't have a job. >> mitt romney has also had his moments. it's a fine line, telling the story of the american dream when so many it's back nightmare. michele bachmann is worth $1-3 million. >> i'm a tax lawyer and my husband started our own successful company. i get it with job creation. what people see in me is a real person. >> many in the republican base are big on self-reliance so candidates must show empathy to the unemployed. >>> an oregon controversy is swirling after a mother and child were kicked off a bus last month. surveillance video shows t

you've been on the unemployed six must-win year? go ahead caller: obama put out a plan a few weeks ago and the republicans pride themselves in listening to the people and yet 82% of the people spoke to them a couple of weeks ago about passing the obama jobs bill. they would not. they lied. why would they do that? it would have created possibly 1.9 million, maybe 2 million jobs to help our country. yes, they pride themselves and listening to the people and get 82% of the people spoke to them last week', a week or so ago and it did not pass. can you answer that? guest: i think this is fundamental to the issue at hand in attacking the problem of long-term unemployment. i think there is plenty of room for debate over the appropriate size and authority of the government in determining our budget process. i think the biggest challenge with policies geared toward long-term employment is trying to get congress to decide how best to a desert -- to address the problem. that is the biggest challenge. when fizzles -- when philosophical issues in

three homes have had upgrades and 14 jobs crea >> jon: 14 jobs to weather-ize th you plugging the unemployed into the draft? come on, man. three homes have you been in afghanistanace of weeks we built city a barren desert and equipped it with water filtration, pizza huts we did it while shooting (beep) rockets at us. you're telling me we shouldn't be able to weather-ize seattles? we have nothing for $5 billion. >> the energy department s failed to y or qual standards. aces on verge of contractors not weatherization spewing asbestos throughout the home. >> jon: you know country we can't even weather-izing our houses, we are done. just sawoof and around a tire fire for warmth. mr. president the greenis your idea. don't just throw a lot t pa in there and walk away. when you decido kill bin laden, did you say give this money to haley barbour head up a program. go situation room pick up the scramble lin call in we'll be right back. he man behind sesame street's elmow. his early life and in a chronicle new documentary being elmo a journey. >> my mom had a considerable amount of kids she was baby-s

lower manhattan and federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he told congress to get to work helping the unemployed find jobs there's something that bernanke and the rest of the power players in washington just don't tell you what that is and ideally take that first let's go back to the one. we have with this. neil. neil mccabe i've said i'm sorry carl fresh and bright and a new washington post poll confirms that the what the american people have known i think all along that who cares about the haves and the have nots ok. they have nots fifteen percent first of all they were asking who the obama administration is looking for fifteen percent said they have twenty percent said they have nots forty five percent said the obama administration is treating this but that stands in contrast to where people are saying when they were asked about who the republicans are looking out for whopping forty seven percent of the abs publicans one of the ads only seven percent said they have nots thirty two percent said treated the same so nearly half the country believes the republicans are only looking out for the su

you can't kill the voting rights act and honor dr. king. you can't unemploy people and honor dr. king. we will not let you make a mockery of what dr. king stood for. dr. king did not stand for the high and mighty. he stood for those of us that were cast out and cast back and we are coming up front today to tell you, just like dr. king, to put the wind behind the backs of president kennedy and president johnson to get a civil rights act and we come to put the wind behind the back of president obama to get a jobs act for the people of this country. a reporter said to me, reverend al, is this about the election? no, this is about our survival. when you are talking about you got to cut medicare and cut medicaid, when you're talking about in order to balance a budget you created the deficit by giving tax cuts to the rich, you created the deficit by giving loopholes to the wealthy. you created the deficits by letting people outsource jobs. now you want us to pay for the jobs that you sent abroad. you want us to pay for your loopholes. you want to go into our parent's social security. wh

he insisted the bill will put the unemployed back to work and protect the country against another economicwnturn the measures price tag is $447 billion >>the president also weighed in on the large protests nationwide demanding accountability for the financial crisis. the president said that the demonstrations out how the u.s. financial system works. here in chicago protesters are gathering of the the u.s. federal reserve bank of the board of trade they're stockpiling food and medical supplies and a nearby church chicago police said that the demonstrators are being cooperative but that was not the case in new york city last night as demonstrators engaged in violent clashes with police officers. police arrested nearly 30 people. the occupied protesters are demonstrating against what they call corporate greed and income inequality. republican presidential candidate herman cain has a message for the wall street protesters: if you don't have a job and you are not rich blame yourself. herman cain told the wall street journal that he does not understand with the protesters want. he said he thinks

about 14 million people z president obama's jobs bill would have made discrimination against the unemployed illegal. and this is a measure being applauded by some. >> it's not just bad for workers but the country and economy. and its a tremendous waste of human capitol to tell testimonipeople they lost a job, they're not eligible to get a new one. >> they would be worry that had they would get sue fd they failed to hire a person who had been unemployed for a long period of time. >> the group fears it will result in frivolous lawsuits. >> hundreds of thousands of jogging strollers made by b.o.b.are being recalled because of a choking hazard. this has what the stroller looks like. it's been sold since 1998. regulators say the logo patch on the stroller can come off and that is the choking hazard. the consumer products safety commission says it has received six reports of that happening. we have a link to more information on our web site abc 7 news.com. just click on 7 on your side. the new study released today found your privacy on the internet may not be as secure as you think. and there is

problem for the unemployed and obviously will retard net new job creation in the united the costs, it increases the risks. and if you are an employer, you are going to think, wait a minute, maybe i should create this job overseas where these laws don't exist. >> you run a company, you know this very well. there may be good reasons why you would reject somebody who's been unemployed for a while. there is a reason wh they got fired to begin with. don't you try to steal from competitors because those are the people who are really, really good in and they are up on the subject? >> of course. it's a highly competitive environment. you are always after the very, very best hire you can make. frequently, that will be somebody who is winning business from you at another firm. so you will try to get that guy on your team. >> wait a minute. this is the government saying, wu don't want you to hire the best person. >> right. the government is stepping in and trying to allocate the jobs, who should get hired. they will say, look, don't hire somebody who has a job, hire somebody who do

hiring a teacher in alaska is not going to help the unemployed and die in pittsburgh -- unemployed guy in pittsburgh. >> i feel like i am bill murray in "groundhog day," because we come to the same thing. >> tax reform -- everybody agrees you take out the loopholes and lower the rates. it worked in 1986, republicans and democrats. nobody will do it, especially the president. he should at tent meeting on this. the number one item in the polls that since a report -- the bowles-simpson report -- he had that a year ago in december and he did nothing. >> why didn't they just put their arms around bowles- simpson? >> they should have -- >> why didn't it they? >> don't make me the spokesperson for the white house. >> political consultants' never tell their clients to do anything heart. >> he is the president of the united states. >> "oh, boss, you cannot do that." >> in the end, is open " groundhog day," because he showed and he didn't. he almost did something with simpson-bowles and john boehner backed out. why didn't he embraced it? he had his consultants, his constituency, say no. >> i am

it wasn't directed at the 14 million people that are unemployed. the millions of people that are underemployed. one of the reasons i'm fighting so hard for this 9-9-9 plan, i want to put people back to work. and according to the scoring from my 9-9-9 plan, this economy would grow at approximately a 5% rate, and will create 6 million new jobs. i'm out here fighting for the unemployed. but what i'm saying is, those people that are protesting wall street, i don't feel any sympathy for you. because wall street did not create these bad economic policies. this administration did. this administration spent $1 trillion, and it didn't work. this administration wants to spend another $450 billion, and it will not work. so my comment was directed at the wall street demonstrators. what are they looking for? another entitlement program? well, i can tell you, in a cain administration, that will not be a new entitlement program. our programs will all be designed to empower people to help themselves. that was the intent of my message. >> do you believe, sir, that

now the unemployed workers who will gather say they support the bill. obama says that the bill is his top priority. republicans say it will do little to help create jobs. >> these independent economists say we could grow the economy [technical difficulties] >>> here in baltimore, today marks the day 7 of the occupy wall street movement with signs, protesters are holding down the fort, chanting and holding signs. they moved over the bank of america building yesterday. organizers say the mission is to focus on the influence of wall street and corporate america. protesters are also targeting the disparity between the wealthiest americans and the poorest calling for a equal distribution of the wealth. >>> needed rain has fallen on the drought city in texas. >>> time for date night with dad. a event held at chick-fil-a and how you can get involved. >>> what many have been wanting to see for a while. heavy rain now, the drought stricken city of abilene has been plagued with wild fires. four inches fell in some areas across the state. street flooding in parts,