leaving out people who have been unemployed for a long time you're leaving out people who are underemployed who have a part time job wish they had a full time job you're talking about twenty five thirty million people who are seriously unemployed or underemployed and then you have tens of millions of people who are fully employed at poverty wages they're not making a living and so people are disgusted people are upset congress and the presidential candidates are at all time lows in approval and yet all the news is sunny why because the numbers are very phony the numbers that they choose to use to measure these think you forgot one group of people as well david and that's the people who have just kind of given up. have been looking for so long that they that they've stopped and you know that's that's a sad story as well i want to talk about something that is happening right now in this country this is a story that you know in my opinion we should be seeing everywhere right now but very few people are talking about it it's a pretty major story in wichita kansas boeing will be shutting down it

we have people that are underemployed that shouldn't be, unemployed that shouldn't be. home values continue to go down. we have the median income declined 10% in the last four years. we are still a great nation, but a great nation doesn't have so many people suffering. i'm running in part because i n how the economy works. i want to use that experience to get people working again, to get our economy working again and the idea to get our economy working is not to have the government play a more intrusive role in how our economy works but to do the seven things that get an economy going. get taxes competitive, regulation as modern as possible, get energy independent, open up trade with other nations and crack down on cheaters, make sure we don't have croney capitalism like we have now, build human capital through enlducation and balance the budget. people won't invest in an economy and create new jobs if they think we'll hit a greece-like wall. i will do those things and get america working again. >> i want to thank our candidates and our hosts, of course, here at the uni

. >> greta: or if you are underemployed. >> underemployed i leave out but if you stop looking for a jobin the statistics. it's a problem. the country has very serious problems. >> greta: gingrich made a remark he referred to the president as food stamp president and set off a lot of people, some people thought it was a horrible criticism. >> if you ask any question or criticize the president it's always race it. how come he doesn't reveal his marks in school, was he bad student the answer is yes. >> greta: how do you know that? >> one college he was bad student and they got him columbia and he got into harvard. maybe it's not but that is what i hear. maybe everybody could say that, but you are a racist. if i say lousy student, you on don't consider that as racist. he did get accused of being racist because he mentioned food stamps. >> greta: how do we overcome that. food stamps we have so many people on food stamps a lot of people are hurting. >> the economy is not doing well. it was meaning the fact that people aren't getting out and working like they used to. you can make that case. y

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. >> brian: counting underemployed?eric: 20 million still underemployed or out of work. >> dana: i wouldn't say that the number was bad news. any increase is a good thing for americans and the country. but one of the numbers that i think is key is how many people decided to leave the workforce. discouraged workers who are deciding at this point right now, i'm just going to take a break, retire early or something. we have in our country what senator marco rubio called today the beginning of a deadbeat nation. when you don't have enough people working enough years to deal with our collective, thankfully our longer life expectancy, you have the longer range problems. my concern is the political expediency for month to month without any longer range plan for dealing with our entitlement problem, making sure we are more competitive and that we are set for the long haul with a stronger foundation. i don't think the republican candidates said that course necessarily yet. but i don't think it's probably going to be able to unti

we have 80% of our people in this state that are underemployed. this president has failed miserably the people of florida. he has no plans for nasa. the space coast is struggling. this president has failed the people of florida and we need a president who understands how to get an economy going again. he plays 90 rounds of golf with 20 million people out of work. he said that gasoline -- he saw gasoline prices double under his presidency and he said do not bill the keystone pipeline. he added another trillion dollars on top of the budget for his obamacare and his stimulus. >> florida's everglades provide drinking water and affect thousands of drops. would you commit to continuing federal financing of the everglades preservation? >> i did not see any reason to go after that. i will look into the details on whether they could be a state issue or not. both all wars going on and the economy in shambles as it is, and the unemployment, to worry about dealing with that program, we could do it in the theoretical sense but no reason to, but contains. -- to

. >> a few of them had mentioned that they were underemployed, overworked, long hours.to be learned, it's to understand your crew's rules and pay more attention to the drills. because you really never know what could happen. >> that couple now safely at home in alexandria cannot stop staring at this picture. emily and the captain holding a pink cocktail. the captain miscalculated and didn't follow an authorized route. now he's facing several charges, including manslaughter and abandoning ship. >>> this martin luther king, jr. day, people here in the dc area and across the nation honored the slain civil rights leader by participating in community service all day long. president obama and the first family joined other volunteers working at the brown education campus in northeast dc. the president helped build some book shelves in the school's library and painted mlk quotes on the walls. this is the third year in a row the obamas have volunteered on martin luther king, jr. holiday. >>> today also marked the first time the new king memorial has been opened to the public. a

those punished most by the wrong turns of the last three years are those unemployed or underemployed tonight and those so disdiscouraged they've abandoned the search for work all together and no one's been more tragically harmed than the young people of this country, the first generation in memory to face a future less promising than their parents did. as republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder. we do not accept that ours will ever be a nation ofs have and have notes. we must always be a nation ofs f haves and soon to haves. in our economic stagnation and indebtness, we're only a short distance behind greece, spain, and other european countries now facing economic catastrophe, but ours is a fortunate land. because the world uses our dollar for trade, we have a short grace period to deal with our dangers. the time is running out if we're a-to-avoid the fate of europe and those once-great nations of history that fell from the position of world leadership. so 2012 is a year of true opportunity, maybe our last, to restore

those punished most by the wrong turns of the last three years are those unemployed or underemployed tonight. those who are discouraged have abandoned work altogether. no one has been more harm than the young people of this country. the first generation in memory to 4 -- face a feature less promising than their parents did. our concern is for those waiting to night to begin or resumed the climb up life's ladder. we do not want a nation of halves or have-nots. in our stagnation and debt, we are only a short distance behind greece and spain. we are fortunate because we use the world -- the world uses the dollar for exchange, we cannot you -- avoid the fate of europe. 2012 is a year of opportunity. it may be our last. it we want to restore an america of hope and upward mobility. these challenges are not matters of ideology or party preference. the problems are mathematical and the answers are purely practical. an opposition that will earn its way back to leadership will suffer not just criticism of failures, but it positive and+ credible plan to make life better. republicans except this

supporting those unemployed and underemployed people, supporting struggling small businesses in a difficultmy, and i support the small businesses versus more chain stores that seem to be coming into the store fronts, but i try to be sympathetic to local businesses because they make up the diversity of our local neighborhoods. those are some of the challenges that face our businesses. >> are there other issues specific to your district? how do you balance the needs of the issues in your district against the needs of the city as a whole? >> i know that our district has a higher proportion of seniors than some other district, and there is a brand new senior complex and wraparound community services complex called the institution on aging bridge housing complex, but it is going to concentrate a lot of the senior services and nonprofits. about 180 units of affordable senior housing in our district. i am actually a baby boomer, at the edge of the baby boomer, and i know that baby boomer era. there's this huge boom in a population of seniors in our city that will grow. i think by 2020, 60% of the

an unemployment rate of 26% compared to their civilian counterparts, and we know that they're underemployed by about 25%. and we know they're more highly educated. 24% of our spouses have bachelor's degrees. we have a program called the military spouse employment partnership, which is again an effort to connect employers to a really great asset in their communities, and that's military spou spouses even though they'll mobile they have the leadership and flexibility skills just as their servicemen. since june 29th, dr. biden launched military spouse employment partnership, we've hired over 13,000 spouses in jobs with 100 companies that are partnered with us to provide those opportunities for our spouses. our goal is to increase the numbers of businesses, especially for portable careers, our virtual careers, so that spouses have an opportunity to have a career path and not start from scratch every time they move to a new location. i think with the reintegration piece. we consider that the most difficult phase. separation is one thing, but reintegrating into your family after being separated f

are likely to continue the economy is still stuck there are forty million who are unemployed or underemployed millions are facing foreclosures at home the u.s. government budget deficit is a major major problem in a threat to the united states standing in the global market but nonetheless the primacy of the military industrial complex is in fact intact so if there's a budget shortfall you'll see teachers laid off nurses laid off firefighters laid off but the pentagon will get more than its fair share final so what does it say about. patients of iraq and afghanistan is this reshuffle basically maybe an admission of expensive failure. i think we've lost the connection to washington d.c. the well we had a good crack of that interview thanks brian back if you can still hear me thanks for being on the program ok now with the modern this debt debacle you might think that germany we should be bankrolling we block survival efforts would be most concerned but among many people there is very different priorities these days not easy go because can offer ports on an interesting phenomenon the rise of the

the mainstream media rarely ever bothers to mention the you six measurement which includes the underemployed that number is currently at fifteen point two percent but there's even more to the story if you think of the employment to population ratio that's coming up but first let's take a look back on a sad story the media coverage yesterday before today's numbers came out a boeing factory in wichita kansas opened since one thousand and twenty nine is going to close. boeing has announced it will shut down its factory in wichita kansas beginning later this year the company says the move is forced by the declining defense contract market more than two thousand workers will lose their jobs. now with today's numbers the mainstream media very quickly forgot about the plight of these workers in wichita that just yesterday they were so concerned about but they also don't bother to point out the absurdity of boeing's reasoning for this factory closure being the market shrinking for contractors because of defense cuts now as we pointed out to you yesterday on the show our defense budget is really shri

if it is passed, it would target one of the most underemployed segments of the united states. >> thoseen 16 and 24 years of age where the unemployment raid is astronomical. it's 16%. >> the labor department is setting up a website for teenagers to find jobs. it's expected to go on line within the next two months. >>> president obama outlined a new strategy for the united states military. he calls for major cuts while promising to keep the u.s. the foremost military power in the world. >> reporter: in a historic first theç president stood before reporters in the pentagon briefing room to announce his plan to cut the defense budget. >> as we look beyond the wars in iraq and afghanistan, we'll be able to ensure our security with smaller conventional ground forces. >> reporter: flanked by the defense secretary and joint chiefs president obama laid out the new priorities. the focus will shift toward the asia pacific, toward air and sea power. the army and marine corps will get smaller. the f 35 fighter jet production will be slowed, not stopped. military retirement and health benefits will

those that were punished by the three years are those unemployed or underemployed and they have abandoned the search for work altogether. and young people have been tragically alarmed by this economy. as republicans our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up like ladder we do not accept that our nation will be a nation of haves and have nots. we must be a nation of haves and soon to be haves. >> we're a short distance behind greece and spain now facing economic catastrophe. but ours is a fortunate land. because the world uses our dollars for trade we have a short grace period to deal with our dangers. the time is running out so to avoid the state of europe and once great nations of history that fell from the position of world leadership. for 2012 is year of true opportunity, maybe our last to restore an america of hope and upward mobility and greater equality. the challenges aren't matters of etiology or party preference. the problems are mathematical and the answers are purely practical. an open six that would earn it's a way back to leadership is not

if it is passed, it would target one of the most underemployed segments of the united states. >> those people between 16 and 24 years of age where the unemployment raid is astronomical. it's 16%. >> the labor department is setting up a website for teenagers to find jobs. it's expected to go on line within the next two months. >>> president obama outlined a new strategy for the united states military. he calls for major cuts while promising to keep the u.s. the foremost military power in the world. >> reporter: in a historic first theç president stood before reporters in the pentagon briefing room to announce his plan to cut the defense budget. >> as we look beyond the wars in iraq and afghanistan, we'll be able to ensure our security with smaller conventional ground forces. >> reporter: flanked by the defense secretary and joint chiefs president obama laid out the new priorities. the focus will shift toward the asia pacific, toward air and sea power. the army and marine corps will get smaller. the f 35 fighter jet production will be slowed, not stopped. military retirement and health b

almost 18% of the people in florida are out of work or significantly underemployed. >> reporter: if newt gingrich is worried florida may end his presidential bid. he gave no hint. >> it's not over if you lose big here? >> you watch tonight, the conservatives are going to outpoll romney. >> reporter: newt says he will not quit. >> there is no clear path -- >> reporter: yes, there is. >> we have the time and the calendar and the team and the organization to be able to get the delegates necessary to become the nominee. >> reporter: for mitt romney. >> you have my vote. >> nice to see you. >> reporter: and newt gingrich, the key date on the campaign calendar is today. the 50 delegates the winner gets here tonight in florida are more than romney and gingrich have earned so far this whole primary season before this big election. i'm steve handlesman, news 4 tampa. >> news 4's doreen gentzler and aaron gilchrist will be holding a chat tonight at 8:00. >>> michelle obama will be the guest on the tonight show with jay leno. she's expected to talk about life in the white house as well as let's mov

. 13 million people out of work, another million people have given up and 8 million people are underemployed, that means 18%, that is what people want to hear about. my criticism of all the candidates is who is talking about a specific positive solution to fix our most pressing domestic problem, it's the economy. you don't hear enough about that. and the voters are getting sick of it. >> neil: when you pull a negative or not, they plant seeds of doubt. with newt gingrich from 37% approval numbers, maybe is not all he says he is. the nice newt, now we're in your face newt.t. >> i think the in your face newt brings out a side that was always there, but to his credit he was trying to hold back on doing that. he had no choice. >> neil: now i know you have left the race. >> i'm encouraging my supporters vote for somebody still in the race. let's not lose sight of the mission. our mission is defeat barack obama and make 999 the law of the land. i could support any of the candidates that are still in the race, but i wanted to encourage people to cain, that is why you are going to find 999 at the we

. >> we are approaching 20 million people who are either unemployed or underemployed in this country.porter: and unemployment is sure to be a top issue as the rest of the candidates stream south in the coming days. randall pinkston, wjz eyewitness news. >> reporter: and the next primary will take place in florida, january 31st. >>> detroit automakers are shut out in their own hometown. the hyundai elant ra took top honors today. hyundai beat out the ford focus and the passat to make north american car of the year. this is the second time in four years that hyundai has earned bragging rights at the show. >> i have to say. nice cars. i've rented them before. and they run well. >> is that right? >> yeah. >>> scott pelley has the evening news. >> one day before the nation's primary. we sat down with newt gingrich and asked about a new cbs poll out today that shows a dramatic drop in the number of people who think he can beat the president. that story tonight, on the cbs evening news. >>> and here's a look at tonight's closing numbers from wall street. we'll be right back. [ male announcer

those punished most by the wrong turns of the last three years are those unemployed or underemployed tonight. those who are discouraged have abandoned work altogether. no one has been more harm than the young people of this country. the first generation in memory to 4 -- face a feature less promising than their parents did. our concern is for those waiting to night to begin or resumed the climb up life's ladder. we do not want a nation of halves or have-nots. in our stagnation and debt, we are only a short distance behind greece and spain. we are fortunate because we use the world -- the world uses the dollar for exchange, we cannot you -- avoid the fate of europe. 2012 is a year of opportunity. it may be our last. it we want to restore an america of hope and upward mobility. these challenges are not matters of ideology or party preference. the problems are mathematical and the answers are purely practical. an opposition that will earn its way back to leadership will suffer not just criticism of failures, but it positive and+ credible plan to make life better. republicans except this

one in four military spouses with unemployed and 75% are underemployed. >> nbc 4 is here to help as it'sf the military spouse career forum and hiring fair. the event is next friday at the washington convention center. it will feature free makeovers, resume and interviewing and coaching and national employers with positions looking for people to hire. >> that sounds great next friday >> that sounds great next friday 8:30 to 2:30. il, any luck find? not yet. i want to buy used but how do you know what you're really getting. check out carmax. all their used cars are guaranteed. that's where henderson found the one for him. way to go, henderson. finding the perfect car is easy at carmax because each car is carefully selected, inspected, thoroughly

the only way the 14 million people who don't have jobs, the 8 million underemployed. if you add them together, it's 18%. the only way they are going to get a job is for people with money to expand their businesses. there's pent-up frustration in business right now. i would be more concerned about unleashing the economic power in business today because they don't know what the tax rates are going to be. if obama gets elected they feel they are going to go back up. focusing on the wrong thing. >> you think it's unfair, the attacks on mitt romney. you think it's very hard to imagine a scenario where he doesn't get the nomination. will you endorse him? will you go out and campaign for him? >> even though i'm not seeking a position of president, i'm still pursuing my mission. mission number one is to help defeat barack obama. whoever becomes the nominee, i will support that nominee. secondly -- >> you said to make an unconventional endorsement this week. >> yes. >> give us a clue here. >> unconventional endorsement. you know what a conventional endorsement is, they raise t

first, the partnership will address workforce development, efforts for the unemployed, the underemployedal skills. in order to foster employability and lifelong learning. >> microsoft will provide support and $100,000 in business development resources to 10 local businesses and also educational resources to d.c. schools. d.c.'s unemployment rate, by the way s at 10.4%. the mayor said the tech industry has grown by 50% in recent years and the city wants to help young people find those jobs. >>> business is bombing for apple. the company again surpassed exxon as the most valuable u.s. company. adam shapiro has more. >> reporter: it's an uncertain economy. housing prices have yet to hit bottom. unemployment remains high, but for apple, times couldn't be better. apple posted record profits for the first quarter. shares hit an all-time high during early trading. the company has passed exxon mobile as the world's most valuable corporation and comes down to i-pads and iphones. >> they sold 37 million iphones. blew away. things are flying off of the shelf. the ipad, more surprising, 15.4 million

one in four is unemployed another 75% they're underemployed. >> next friday nbc 4 is helping sponsorary spouse job fair. we report on why some believe this is a matter of national security. >> reporter: cleaning up after his two children is a never ending chore for jeremy hilton. he's an air force spouse who gave up his career many the navy to belong to a select group, less than 5% of military spouses are male. >> the squadron my wife is at right now there's one other guy, he's brand new. we're both brand new. it is nice talking to another guy. but we're few and far between. >> reporter: jeremy shares something that many other military spouses have had to deal with as global conflicts wind down, unemployment. the military lifestyle is almost impossible for two careers. and often it is the spouse's career that has to go. >> we moved approximately over the last nine years about six times. and those six times every time you have to restart looking at different jobs. >> i personally moved nine times in the last 14 years. >> reporter: jeremy has an advocate to laura dempsey. the lawyer an

let's look at this number, if you look at unemployment plus underemployed, the rate is 18 percent!ou don't hear about that. we hear this 8.5 or 8.6 percent number, whoever put the number out, they are not being truthful as we would say politically. 18 percent! 18 percent! >>neil: newt gingrich called mitt romney a liar lying about his record. newt gingrich's record. when you were in the race, newt gingrich was mr. positive, the 11th, do not speak ill of a fellow republican. you tried to practice that. >>guest: i tried. >>neil: we see how far that got you. what do you think of what is going on now between those two? >>guest: newt gingrich was pushed into calling it like he sees but the report we don't hear, who is right? mitt is saying the commercials he ran were correct. newt gingrich is saying that is disingenuous and not factual, yes, he is saying the information is wrong. >>neil: but he called him a liar, and we called newt gingrich as we do all the time to come on the show, to talk about this, and she a busy guy, we hope to get him on. >>guest: someone --. >>neil: when you call

they have a pool of millions. 23 million people in this country you can find work or are severely underemployedthe power of the people has to be understood by the people. we have to raise our expectation lowell's about what we can command in terms of grabbing hold of these corrupt institutions, shaking them, displacing them, subordinating them. and if they survive that kind of spring shower or whatever they have to behave. if they're bigger have to behave. the sovereignty of the people is hardly tapped because people go through life believing that they're powerless, that they can't fight city hall, they can't fight exxon mobile, they can do anything about the congress or the white house. they're best sons and daughters, desperate to find money to go to college, are drawn into these criminal wars of aggression and return for the flattery of the corporate and government to criminals that have gotten them in these places around the world to kill and die and then come back and be forgotten. if that is what has happened. we have lost almost complete control of any semblance of democracy, short of a

this does not account for the underemployed and those no longer counted at all. housing is no way to live. california, the third highest number of foreclosures in america. they are expected to jump nationally. more foreclosures this year, by 25%. but remember, this is not simply a foreclosure crisis. even americans who can afford their mortgage payments are still stuck in their homes because they owe more than they can fetch for their properties. home prices nationally have dropped by more than a third since the start of the crisis. here in california, it's worse. any talk of a recovery simply not true. in fact, prices in california have dropped another 6% in just the past year. so where's the leadership? where are the handcuffs for those who continue to cheat the system with their greedy bastard behavior at the expense of the american homeowner? joining us is john taylor, president of the national community reinvestment center. and real estate and finance professor susan walker. john, walk us through what you see as the greatest tragedy or harm that is being don