[applause] the unappointed rate dropped from 11% to 3.3%. [applause] [cheering] florida pay down $10 billion in state debt in the record investment remained and what matters most to floridians, education, the environment and public safety. rick scott and his wife had been married for 47 years and have two daughters, allison and jordan and six grandsons. please join me in welcoming the embodiment of the american dream, senator rick scott. [applause] [cheering] >> thank you. usually i do this important, close to the beach. when i start these conferences and forward the first thing i said, spend your money. i want people to buy a second home, because in florida are taxes are basically sales tax which tours pay 25% of, and they buy homes and don't use them and pay property taxes. it's the best business model in the world. thanks for being and being about. you have to be involved to what happens in this country. this country -- the making it more difficult to get a job, they expect you to be able to get a job. you heard about my back on, i am the

i think for possibly at the 2% gdp rate which is very good considering where we are with unappointed,e have a shortage of people now. maria: 50 year low on unemployment. more important for the minority, that is the thing that excites me. their lowest since we have been keeping records. in the more we make our economy widespread and beneficial to everybody the better we do it. that is what is going on in america. trees don't grow in the sky. at some point, we are going to have a slowdown. at some point we may have a recession. that is okay. i'm very worried about one thing. i'm very worried about the low interest rates. they do not have a happy ending. gogod for bid there's nothing to do about it. maria: and yet here we are talking about the federal reserve cutting interest rates. >> these people are living on retirement and income during their retirement. these people will get hurt badly because 2.5% interest, come on. so that to me, is what we have to work on. i think a little bit of inflation or more inflation will help. but overall, everything that i see, things are good. maria: a

and you saw today first time unappointed plans, denton nearly 200,000 in unexpected drop.avid: we also sold a downward revision of past gains. >> this assist local revision, yes i will absorb that and take a closer look. i'm just saying unemployment claims are one of the best leading indicators of the economy. so i'm optimistic on that score. consumers are working, spending, saving, their wages are going up. i think that's crucial. >> great to see you. the consumer is a big piece of the economy, the consumer is alive and well and if you believe that the tariffs are far have an impact in the consumer, a lot of folks are worried that the pending tariffs will if the president cannot come to an agreement with china, what is the contingency plan? >> i don't want to what if on any of that. what i might say on china, the deputies from the two sides, the deputies had a productive conference call yesterday and they are going to come back in a few days for a second conference call and we are looking at the key aspects of a trade deal and i believe that at the right time when the dep

mississippi's unappointed rate is 5%. the national employment rate is 3.7% by comparison. it does seem to indicate there are people in that state would like jobs, who are in this country legally, though they could go out and hire. one other thing i wanted to point out, something that never gets covered about the trump administration, they dramatically increase the number of seasonal work visas for the summer. the h2b visas. they increase it by 30,000. it's nearly doubling what the visa allotment usually is. there are ways to employ people legally in this country. actually, this trump administration is trying to help. >> capri: i'm so glad people are talking about the employer issue. >> melissa: just before we run out of time, i want to get to the idea of democrats heading back saying we should dismantle i.c.e. at this point. >> capri: the cost to dismantle i.c.e., frankly, are -- i think if you really want to take a serious step, we need to do is find these employees who are basically circumventing the law because they don't want to pay withholding taxes. you want to make

low, at or near record lows for latinos, black americans, at least since we've been recording the unappointed rate. that fox news poll last week, 51% of voters now feel the economy is an excellent or good shape. the last time we saw this high a level on the economy was back in january of 2001. so it's been almost 20 years. these are incredible statistics. wages are rising, they are rising much faster than they were at the end of the obama administration. you focus on that, you win. you take shots at people and say awful things, you lose. >> kennedy: that's absolutely right. the president can fire up his base with economic news, because a lot of people who left the establishment and embrace this president did so because of their personal economy. >> lisa: those are great points on the economy. i would say that what he should talk about in ohio is the attacks on fossil fuels that you saw last night in the debate. yet even joe biden, who claims to be a moderate, he said he would illuminate fossil fuels. you're talking about a state like ohio, by doing saying, "i'm going to continue the obama war

while the unappointed rate is self and 18 are low, 3.5 percent in 2019, we all know that under employmentdisproportionately impacting our veterans. according to a recent study primary zip recruiter and endowment, nearly a third of veterans are underemployed. meaning they are working a job they are either overqualified to do, or that is not taken into account their characteristics from discipline and teamwork to situation analysis and response under pressure. opportunities must be part of our total solution. a top priority for homeless veterans is secure safe clean housing that offers a supportive environment. in 2012, city partners with national equity fund and together launch bring them home. it's a focus on creating affordable and supportive and creative housing for our veterans. since that time, it is provided more than 3.2 million in support of notes to support these bring them home projects. this has helped create nearly 4000 units of housing for veterans. these projects include working with strong community and national partners, many are whom in this room. they create the housing s