[applause] that's what every one of these governors and tom perez believes in, that's what we've got in the public service for. i hope dan and peter don't mind me sharing this, but while we were driving over here, they were talking about the fact that when they were growing up they both had dyslexia. because of this incredible fierce love of their parents, but because also there were folks there to help them they achieved and may these extraordinary achievements. duvall has a similar story. he grew up in the south side of chicago. [ cheering ] you know, and came from a very modest background. but somebody gave him a chance. so many of us understand that at the heart of america the central premise of this country is the chance to achieve your dreams if you work hard. if you take responsibility. that it doesn't matter where you start, it's where you finish. and in america we believe in an opportunity for all. we believe that our success should not be determined by the circumstances of our birth. it's determined by each of us, but also by a society that's committed to everybody succeedi

our outstanding secretary of labor tom perez. [ applause ] tom must have brought some of his family withlaughter ] we've got a lot of honored guests here. we've got middle class workers who rely on overtime pay. we've got business owners who believe in treating their employees right. both because it's the right thing to do, but also because it's good business. and thanks to the hard work and resilience of americans like the ones who are here today, our economy has been growing for a number of years now. our businesses have created more than 8.5 million new jobs over the last four years. the unemployment rate is at the lowest it's been in over five years. but in many ways, the trends that have really battered middle class families for decades have gotten worse, not better. those at the top doing better than ever, but for the average family, wages have barely budged and too many americans are working harder and harder just to get by. so we've got to reverse those trends. we've got to build an economy that works for everybody, not just for a few. and we've got to restore the basic notion of

labor secretary tom perez, telling ali velshi about creating more jobs, he says wages have to rise. > the best ways to pick up the pace of growth is to address the issue of consumption. consumption is oftentimes upwards of two thirds or so of gdp, and what that means is you have got to put money in people's pockets. >> you can see more of the interview on "real money" right here on al jazeera america. >>> in many states undocumented high school graduates are forced to payout of state tuition just to go to college. but in tennessee there is a student who is fighting to change things. jonathan martin has her story. >> reporter: this 19-year-old hoped to at tend tennessee state university and major in business, but because she is an undocumented immigrant, jasmine learned she doesn't qualify for in-state tuition that makes college uneye affordable. when she was seven jasmine and her mother left mexico and goved to minnesota and later tennessee. where children must pay out of state fees. attending tsu would cost more than $20,000 a year. >> you are preparing students to go to college, but

tom perez talking to ali velshi saying things need to get better. >> we need to pick up the pace undeniablythat's where the president has investments in infrastructure, investments in skills, helping to double the number of app preadvertiseships in america. raising the minimum wage,al of these things will help to pick up the pace of growth in our economy. >> you can see more of ali's interview on rael with ali velshi at 7:00 pm eastern time right here on al jazeera america. >>> a tepid reaction to the jobs report. the dow up 24 points. investors not seeing today's numbers as giving much incite into what is happening in the overall economy. >>> cpac is underway right now in maryland. the speakers include rick perry, rick santorium, and rand paul. >> reporter: rand spaul going to be somebody to watch today because his libertarian views are very popular among this crowd. but we're not seeing mitt romney here this year, del, and a fair number of speakers have been critical of center mccain and john boehner, some feel he is pushing too far towards what the white house wants, that he's not holdin

you know, me, tom perez, so many of us understand that at the heart of america, the central premise ofhis country is the chance to achieve your dreams if you work hard, if you take responsibility. but it doesn't matter where you start, it's where you finish. [ applause ] . >> and in america we believe in opportunity for all. we believe success shouldn't be determined by the stock markets of o -- by the circumstances of our birth, but by a society that's committed to everyone to succeed. doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, what your last name is, who you love, what matters is -- [ cheers ] >> the strength of your work ethic and the power of your dreams and your willingness to take responsibility for yourself but also for the large of society. that's what makes america the place that it is. why it continues to be a beacon attracting people from all around the world. the idea that you can make it here if you try. there's been a lot of -- a lot of news about foreign affairs around the world over the last several days, but also for the last couple years. and one of the t

but labor secretary tom perez says we can do better. >> real wages are up slightly. but way too many people are still working hard and falling behind. we've seen productivity since 1980 or so has gone up over 90%, real wages have gone up something like 3%. >> reporter: even the increase in the unemployment rate to 6.7% was a good thing. it went up because more people began looking for work. carmax, the nation's largest used car dealer, is expanding and hiring. 1200 new jobs nation-wide, including 140 employees at this brand-new facility in frederick, maryland. >> we're excited the fact that we're doing that type of growth, 10 to 15 stores in the next two fiscal years each year. that's a lot of excitement, the fact that we're hiring 1200 positions right now as a company to get ready for the busy spring and summer car-buying seasons as well. >> reporter: for alice fisher it's a fresh start. she's been hired and is getting training as a sales consultant. she's been out of work for more than 2 1/2 years. during that time, ms. fisher came face-to-face with what it means t

we want to add jobs and what we need to work with you, tom perez, on, is making sure we have the skilledhen i see growth in professional business services, i'm not surprised. that's part of the ramp up. so i'm very heartened to see that. private job growth to the tune of 8.7 million jobs. last month was a tough weather month. there were roughly 7 million people who were out of work for at least part of the week because of the weather. so we are still seeing that progress notwithstanding that. undeniably, we have more work to do. that's why the president's budget outlines additional investments in infrastructure. additional investments in skills such as growing our apprenticeship programs, because there is a bright future in this country for people that want to work with their hands and many businesses need those electricians and pipefitteres and others. there is a formula for picking up the pace. >> that's certainly where you are looking for more job growth. 175,000, that's higher than expected. a lot of projections said 150,000 or less than that. that's good news. i know that you are po

. >> reporter: that's the labor secretary tom perez. >> ali. i appreciate it.we'll see you at the top of the hour, "real money with ali velshi." >>> the faa said it will appeal a ruling tha of commercial drone user. it could open up a new industry of cameras and other equipment on board of small flying machines. jacob is here to help us sort through all this. >> starting in 2007 if you were to slap a camera on to a commercially available drone, the kind you would buy from a toy store and offer your services as a drone cameraman, you would be likely b with a fi. this is the first time that a court case has come up against that ruling. the lawyers have won, and that seemingly opened the door to a whole new industry of commercial drone operators. >> i'm a drone photographer here. i wonder who is regulating this potentially lucrative industry here. >> at the moment the motion of dismissal means that nobody is. you are in the same wor world of tort law that governors frisbees and golf balls. but the faa will appeal this ruling because they don't want the air filled

our outstanding secretary of labor, tom perez. nd of applause. [ applause ] tom must have brought some of his family with him. yeah, we've got, you know, a lot of honored guests here. we've got middle-class workers who rely on overtime pay. we've got business owners who believe in treating their employees right. both because it's the right thing to do but also because it's good business. and thanks to the hard work and resilience of americans like the ones who are here today, our economy's been growing for a number of years now. our businesses have created more than 8.5 million new jobs over the last four years. the unemployment rate is at the lowest it's been in over five years. but in many ways the trends that have really battered middle-class families for decades have gotten worse, not better. those at the top doing better than ever but for the average family wages have barely budged. and too many americans are working harder and harder just to get by. so we've got to reverse those trends. we've got to build an economy that work

drive to one of our 400 oreck stores nationwide order now the oreck magnesium rs >>> i'm directing tom perez, my secretary of labor, to restore the common sense principle behind overtime. if you go above and beyond to help your employer and your economy succeed, then you should share a little bit in that success. we're going to do this the right way. we're going to consult with both workers and businesses as we update our overtime rules. >> the number one question i get when i'm out and traveling around the country is how can the president amend legislation, how can he do this without the permission of congress because he seems to be writing his own laws whenever he feels like it? >> how can the president do this? we're back with the panel. george, a lot of people write in, e-mail in, tweet, this administration seems like it does a lot of things, not to say that other administrations don't have executive orders and haven't done executive orders, but it seems like they have done a lot of things unilaterally without congress. >> often in the name of enforcement discretion, and it will be inter

i'm directing tom perez, my secretary of labor, to restore the common sense principle behind overtime. if you go above and beyond to help your employer and your economy succeed, you should share a little bit in that success. >> the president just wrapped in the east room, exercising the power of the pen once again. this time he expanded the number of people eligible for overtime pay. this means more money for millions of workers. the move is in keeping with the democrats' focus on inequality this election year, and so far in the president's second term, executive authority has been his only real weapon to get anything done. with plunging poll numbers for the president in that so called bellwether win by the republicans in tuesday in florida, the question is can the president and the democrats go from defense to offense? to answer that and other questions, we turn today that millbank. thanks for joining us. >> hi, krystal. >> so let's start with that question. i think that this move by the president is really important. i think it's going to make a big difference for a lot of folks out

. >> i'm directing tom perez, my secretary of labor, to restore the common sense principle behind overtime. if you go above and beyond to help your employer and your economy succeed, then you should share a little bit in that success. >>? rinking the inequality gap between the haves and have nots has two sides of the wager. there's taking down the excess of the haves. right now, there is not much discuss of the latter in washington, but there is a very good reason to think that redistributing money from haves to have nots would actually make the economy perform better as a whole. every extra dollar going into the pocket of low-wage workers adds about $1.21 to the national economy. every extra dollar going into the pockets of a high-income american by contrast only adds about 39 cents to the gdp. it injects only about $10 billion into the economy, putting the same amount of money would inject $32 billion into the economy, three times as much. joining me, alexis goldstein. working in information technology. now she's communications director for the other 98%. alexis, we will begin with a que

our outstanding secretary of labor tom perez. [applause] tom must have brought some of his family with him. we have got a lot of honored guests here. we have got middle-class workers who rely on overtime pay. we have got business owners who believe in treating their employees right, because it's the right thing to do but also because it's good business. thanks to the hard work of americans like the ones who are here today, our economy has been growing for a number of years now. our business has created more than eight and half million new jobs. the unemployment rate is at the lowest it has been in over five years, but in many ways the trends that have really that third middle-class families for decades have that and worse, not better. the top are doing better than ever, but for the average family, the wages have barely budge. too many americans are working harder and harder just to get by. to reverse those trends. we have got to build an economy that works for everybody, not just a few. got to restore the basic notion of opportuni

that's what every one of the governors and tom perez believes in. that's what we got into basketball service for. they don't mind me sharing this. while we are driving over here, they were talking about the fact that when they were growing up, they had dyslexia. because of this incredible fierce love of their parents, but also because there were folks there to help them, they achieved and made these extraordinary achievements. and came from a very modest background. but somebody gave them a chance. so many of us in the central premises is a chance to achieve your dreams if you work hard. if you take responsibility. it doesn't matter where you start, it's where you finish. and in america we believe in opportunity for all. we believe that our success should not be determined by the circumstances of our birth. it's determined by each of us, but also by a society that is committed to everybody to succeed. it doesn't matter where you come from and what you look like and what your last name is and who you love. what matters is the strength of your work et

indeed, the secretary of labor, tom perez, has addressed these concerns point by point in a recent letter and he has importantly committed to work collaboratively with the states, as has been the case in all 12 extensions or expansions of this program since the great recession to do this. we have repeatedly extended this program, there have been periods of time where there has been a gap between extensions and they've had to look backwards, these state administrators and secretary perez is committed to do all he can and have all the efforts of the department so this can be implemented successfully. i'm confident it can and he is confident it can. but there are four basic assertions made that i want to address. first, the states indicated that while they're struggling with antiquated computer systems that make it hard to implement changes quickly. the states have received over the past five years, $345 million to modernize their unemployment insurance systems. that's federal money going to states so they can fix their computer systems. so this is not exactly an era we've neglected in terms

i'm directing tom perez, my secretary of labor to restore the common sense principal behind overtime. if you go above and beyond to help your employer and economy succeed, you should share a little bit in that success. this is going to make a difference in the lives of millions of americans like managers in fast food and retail and office workers and cargo inspectors and do this the right way. consult with both workers and businesses as we update overtime rules. we are going to work to simplify the system so it's easier for employers and employees alike. with any kind of change like this, not everybody will be happy. americans have spent too long working more and getting less in return. wherever and whenever i can make sure our economy rewards hard work and responsibility that make sure it is treating fairly the workers who are out there building this economy every day. that's what i'm going to do. what every american wants is a paycheck that lets them support their families and experience a little bit of economic security, pass down hope and optimism to their kids. that's what we wil

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i want to bring in evan perez and tom fuentes.ack to that in a moment, the whole pilot issue. but interpol released an interesting statement today really critical of the malaysians for not checking the database that interpol has. as we know, two passengers with stolen passports got on to that flight. the truth is, this is from the interpol press release, the truth is that in 2014 prior to the tragic disappearance of flight 370, malaysia's immigration department did not conduct a single check of passengers' passports against interpol's databases. what do you make of this? because pa malaysia claims that the computer system was too slow. >> that's an absurd claim. >> the malaysian claim? >> the united states queries that database 30 million -- sing ga p pore, 30 million times. in two-tenth of a second when the pass board is scanned, it goes through that database and it's scanned. that's a false claim. >> should we read anything into the fact that the interpol is releasing this statement? there was always suspicion about these irania

. >> tom fuentes and evan perez.eports of a seismic event between ma kwlaz that and vietnam at the bottom of the sea@same day and after flight 370 disappeared. could it have something to do with the mystery? >> we are following breaking news here. investigators are looking into whether lithium batteries could have played a role in the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. they're looking into reports of a sea floor event in the waters not long after the jet's last point of known contact. brian todd joins us live from washington. who recorded this event and does it prove anything? >> the waters from malaysia and vietnam. that happened about 72 miles northeast of the plane's last confirmed location. they say it occurred about an hour after the plane's last known contact. we have spoken to seismologists and a sea floor event means seismic energy that can be caused by an earthquake or artificial impact. there two seismic stations. the way the chinese laid out the readings, they placed two circles on a map. they

let's bring in evan perez and miles o'brien and cnn law enforcement analyst, former assistant fbi director, tom fuentes. miles, let's start with you. what do you make of this information that they are making out? >> a 270-degree turn right all the way down to left, it's very difficult, wolf, to come up with a scenario where that is some sort of a mechanical failure or malfunction. if a pilot was in a bad way, rapid decompression, fire, whatever you want to say, he or she would not take that long way around to gain that direction. it would be a sharp turn to the left. and so it's very difficult -- i've talked to a lot of pilots about this, it's very difficult to look at that diagram and not say that it was an intentional act of some kind. that jives with what nic robertson's sources have been telling him. the one thing i might quibble with on his sources, that could have very well have been flown by autopilot. it could have been flown automatically and in a gentle way that the passengers would have had no idea. >> tom, i know you have good sources over there in malaysia as well, that they are co

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perez who has information on the investigation. also with us is mike weiss, a 777 pilot and peter goelz, and former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. evan, let's start with you. you're talking to your sources and learning new information. tell us what you've learned. >> wolf, the leading theory, we're hearing from counterterrorism officials here in the united states, is that they believe this is ultimately going to prove to be an accident. now, they are not ruling out anything. there are still a lot of questions that they are looking into but they have come to this initial conclusion at least because they've looked at online profiles, they've done interviews with neighbors, friends, and they have done everything that they think they can to put together profiles of these two pilots to try to determine whether there was anything that indicates that they could have done this and what they've come to is that this is the only theory that they can come up with. >> these are counterterrorism experts? >> correct. >> these are counterterrorism experts. they see no evidence of terrorism. do they see any evidence potentially of pilot suicide