a way to redistribute work so everyone work less and they were still people who were seriously underemployed or unemployed. and requiring a social security and -- >> right. >> this is a bit of each of the envision any sense. in the sense that it is not going to happen anytime soon. at the same time there's nothing wrong with the utopian vision which is the purpose of which is to say people, stop and think again about how we are and whether you can actually organize things in a more rational way. >> i agree our economy is driven off of this. every day there is thousands of messages. you know on television ads. for people to buy, to replace in our homes, our tvs with stuff.i noticed in your book you talked about self storage space. i merely have so much stuff that steph has his own place and it is air-conditioned! i mean. >> this is crazy to me. so talk a lot about this whole -- we've been talking with this contradiction and really about the split on this. on the one hand we want to be fruitful it is that moral thing to do. and he talk about savoring this and to particular, ben franklin her lo

. >> we still see half a million veterans underemployed. >> for those most recent veterans, the job situation is always volatile. in the past six months, it is climbing again. >> and they're competing into the peer group which just graduated college. a lot of companies do not equate four years of military service to four years at a university. >> zachary left the marines last fall. >> a lot of people are realizing, okay. i can't stay in here. i have to do something else. >> president trump's federal hiring freeze may hit had them especially hard. one-third of federal workers are veterans. >> the opportunities are not there. >> j.r. martinez survived the attack in iraq. then he land ad role on all my children. and one, "dancing with the stars." he said it is you have to transition from a follow orders environment to the civilian world where self-starters successes succeed. >> we're not necessarily the one who's will go out and be our own agent. we sit back. we don't approach. there are very few have that amazing quality. >> a number of companies are working to help make the transition to make

it is estimated as many as 80% to 90% of adults like jeff are unemployed or underemployed. do you have a natural aptitude for numbers, do you think? >> yeah. i've always been good with numbers. >> reporter: jeff is using his auditing skills in the automaker's product development division. kirsten queen says ford looks for jobs that are highly structured and requires focus and then trains both the new hires and their co-wo co-worke co-workers. having teams that are going to be working with the individual to communicate in a direct style. >> reporter: jeff is one of ford's first four hires under this program that will now expand to 24 this year. the company says it's been overwhelmed by the positive response of its employees, many of whom have family members or know somebody with autism. an opportunity that is his mother's dearest hope. >> i think finding a place where he fit in has been both of our dreams for him for a long time. and to have a career path sort of tied into that is just everything. it's the whole package. >> reporter: jeff is now focused on his future and sav

it is estimated as many as 80% to 90% of adults like jeff are unemployed or underemployed. >> do you have a natural aptitude for numbers, do you think? >> yeah, i've always been good with numbers. >> reporter: jeff is using his auditing skills in the automaker's products development division. kirsten queen leads ford's inclusion effort saying ford looks for jobs that are highly structured and require great focus and trains new hires and their co-workers. >> helping the teams working with the individual understand to communicate in a very direct style. one of the key learnings that the teams had opportunity to learn about. >> reporter: jeff is one of ford's first four hires under this program that will now expand to 24 this year. the company says it's been overwhelmed by the positive response of its employees, many of whom have family members or know someone with autism. an opportunity that is his mother's dearest hope. >> i think finding a place where he fit in has been both of our dreams for him for a long time. and to have a career path tie into that is just everything. the whole w

it's estimated as many as 80% to 90% of adults like jeff are unemployed or underemployed. >> do you haveural appetitude for numbers, do you think? >> yeah. >> reporter: he's using his skills in the development system. she says ford looks for jobs highly structured and require great focus. and then trains both the new hires and their coworkers. >> having the teamworking with the individual understand to communicate in a very direct style. that was one of the key learnings the teams had an opportunity to learn ab four hires under in program that will now expand to 24 this year. the company says it's been overwhelmed by the positive response of its employees, many of whom have family members or know someone with autism. an opportunity that is his mother's dearest hope. >> i think finding a place where he fit in has been both of our dreams for him for a long time. and to have a career path sort of tied into that is everything. it's the whole package. >> reporter: jeff is now focused on his further and savoring the experience. when inclusion is job one. anne thompson, nbc news, deerborn, mich

. >>> up to 90% of adults with autism are unemployed of underemployed.t's a statistic that ford motor company is working to change. they're hiring adults with autism. it's part of ajo ford and the national autism council. >> i think finding a place where he fit in has been both of our dreams for him for a long time. and to have a career path tied into that, it's everything. the whole package. >> now, ford will expand the number of hires under this program to 24 this year. the company says it has been overwhelmed by the positive response of employees. >>> before you hit the gym today, maybe put these songs on your play list. just like fire by pink, closer by the chain smokers, and the greatest by sia, and 24k magic by bruno mars. a sports psychologist came up with the ultimate work joout so on apple music. >> the sports psychologist says the play list is effective because it song and increases your intensity when you're in the zone. >> beyonce, who runs the world. that has to be on there. >> i don't know that i would listen to that in the gym, but that's

segments of society that can't get around that easy but also enabling a lot of unemployed in saudi or underemployed people making a living. when you talk to a woman, you hear precareem, post careem. they are 75% is saudi nationals working with us that are earning a decent living, working in the society. >> another uber, $3 billion investment in that company, that's the main competitor here in the middle east. talk to me a little about that relationship. are you going to be going to potentially being acquired, talking about a public listing? what's next for careem? >> the focus is to keep growing the business independently. we're in 11 countries and 50 cities. many parts of the region we're still not present in. one big objective this year is to start expanding and opening new markets, new cities, countries. the second is we are less than .5% of the trips that happen in every city, total numbers. there's a lot of scale in existing markets. third, we also recognize the platform we have built can be used for many other things including movement of things. so this year we're going to start experimentin

it is estimated as many as 80 to 90% of the adults like jeff are unemployed or underemployed. >> do you have a natural apt tud for? >> i've always been good with numbers. >> reporter: jeff is using his skills in the automakers products development division. kristen says ford looks for jobs that are highly structured and require great focus and then strain the new hires and their co-workers. >> helping them understand to communicate in a very direct style. that was one of the key learnings they had to learn about. >> jeff is one of ford's first four hires under this program that will now expand to 24 this year. the company says it's been overwhelmed by the positive response of its employees, many of whom have family members or know someone with autism. an opportunity that is his mother's dearest hope. >> i think finding a place where he fit in has been both of our dreams for him for a long time. and have a career path sort of tied into that is just everything the whole package. >> jeff is now focused on his future and savering the experience. >> the best part of working here is the peopl

the deal with the nuclear deal of iraq and clean it up, in fact. 95 million americans underemployed. the household income fallen from 57,000, 53,000. that's what it is all about. we want change an an outcider and somebody from the business community that can turn this thing around. our immigration, there's no immigration security. nobody quite knows what our immigration policy is. >> i'll tell you what it is. >> last week in donald trump's presence. we have a senior adviser that's being cited r for e-- for breaches. so by telling us this and having us dissect whether it's true or not he is distracting us from his mess. we are here on tv arguing on whether he inherited a mess or not because we are not talking about the incredible mess that has been the last 30 days under his presidency. a white house that leaks, back stabbing, it's crazy what is going on there but we're not talking about that. >> i want to give you the last word. we're almost out of time but what's your response to that. did some people see mr. trump's month as chaotic and messy? >> i absolutely don't think so. i thin

nightly news is what does it mean to be underemployed, how does it work, what is president trump planningut this as he continues to hold meetings with his national economic council, ceos across the country and really put pressure on companies to create more jobs. what's feasible, what can people expect and what do the numbers really mean. >> the president hadn't taken office until the 20th of january. how much credit does he get or deserve in all of this versus what he inherited? or do we have to wait for another full month? >> i think it's probably fair to wait for another full month. what you saw was the last ten days of january under president trump. there may have been a little bit of credit that can be shared there, but a lot of times this bureau of labor statistics survey happened in the middle of the month. that would have been still been when president obama was holding office. it certainly is relevant when you look at what can be done. of course president trump's policies so we can expect to see how those will have a negative or positive impact coming up in the coming quarter and

have jobs and canton, ohio, no one can snap his fingers -- >> in fairness -- there are people underemployed. >> that's a tough problem to deal with. i agree, but one thing you can do is try to make things more bite sized. comprehensive does not work well. you can imagine doing bite sized things that will be impressive. >> which would give them something to talk about. if you're a republican member of congress. i talked to mike, george bush's primary speech writer because you know, we are hearing it's going to be a more positive speech. and what he said i thought was interesting, the two big speeches from trump are convention and inauguration. both very dark speeches. which is things are terrible. i'm the only one who could say that. things are good, the need for donald j. trump only man on earth who can take us from this terrible place to. that it goes against brand for him to give a speech that is -- >> one of the things he'll double down on the military and making you safer and this is yo you chose me. then the republicans can use that as red meat and say wait a second, you don't believe

you've got a substantial amount of veterans that are out of work, underemployed, and we want to shiftonversation back to us that hit at home. for us when you're trolling the executive office for lack of a better term, i just want to center the conversation on something a little bit more important. liz: yeah, howard supported -- starbucks is hiring veterans, 800. and how many of your current workers are veterans? >> what i would like to say is big companies, publicly-traded veterans, they support veterans mainly as a pr. however, we hire veterans because it's who we are, which is a huge difference. you know, he has over 200,000. liz: how many of your workforce? >> over 50%. so we're sitting right over 50 veterans hired so far. we have almost 70 complete count of our employees. we've got 70 employees. i actually hired 12 people today. liz: wow. >> so we're really concerned with kind of the conversation or the narrative in america right now with this, you know, 90-day or 120-day ban specifically we don't see it as racist. it's about the country and how porous the regulation is in order t

>> underemployed is a big issue. >> these are people who would like to have a bigger job, tougher job, take what's available because they care about their families. they do it. they take the looks that available. a lot of people want to work 30 bucks, 40 buck, want to make the money. >> reporter: look at the disparity between ceo pay and worker pay today it has never been greater. you have people with two jobs saying i can't make ends meet, i want something different, i'm going to vote for trump. >> i'm in the market sh, everybody is in the market in some way, 401(k)s. going way up 20,000. >> here's the point. you said everybody's in the market. not everybody is in the markets. many of donald trump's supporters are not in the market. they're looking for a change. those who are, animal spirits are out. president obama handed a slow and steady economy in large part because he put so much cushions -- >> okay. you're getting my attention. animal spirits are out? >> animal spirits -- >> what's that mean? >> this means investors are saying, great, deregulation. >> the bullish market. >> cut

>> when we look at the statistics of veterans in underemployed ratio of veterans 2.5 veterans post 9/hose veterans, depending on age and demographic underemployed or unemployed. so we're going to be pooling from movies the post 9/11 veteran pool or reach into the older, meaning the gulf wear veterans too. ainsley: that's a lot of veterans you are going to hire. you have successful company. you are growing leaps and bounds. are you planning on starting some companying in the south. >> yes. ainsley: and where a lot of people support our veterans. >> we have a really fantastic outreach program for expansion. we have incorporated a couple really big or well-known guys. we have tom davin from 5/11. matt ceo of amantor facial comp. a three star general on our team. our plan is to build 600 stores in the next six years. i'm going to try to push this forward with the community behind me. so a lot of things i really want to talk about sorry. brian: before we go, you have just glazed over your service. >> yes. brian: what has he it plenty to you? how has ha formulated how are today and have thi

too many americans are underemployed while many others are working multiple jobs and unable to make ends meet. from highity suffers rates of child poverty and many children come home to empty cupboards throughout the summer and over the weekend. startlinge hit the new milestone. for the first time, the majority of all public school children qualified for reduced meals. this means that school meals and federal child edition programs formore important than ever health, well-being and education of our next generation. we know that education is the ultimate bridge by the poverty, but the fact remains cannot expect our children to be held -- hungry for knowledge if they're just plain hungry. when we provide students taxes to meals, we are not just nourishing their bodies but feeding their minds. in his first proposed budget, i has been included over half $1 million to help improvements to alternative service models, like breakfast in the classroom, grab and go breakfast and second chance breakfast, which is proven to increase the increaseon and -- participation and reduce stigma. found 54% of

too many americans are underemployed while many more are working multiple jobs and still unable to make ends meet. ofult is that far too many our communities suffer from high rates of child poverty and far too many children are coming home to empty cupboards at the end of the school day, over the weekend, and throughout the summer. startling newt a milestone. for the first time, a majority of all public full children qualified for free or reduced price meals. ins means that will meals federal child nutrition programs are more important than ever to the health and well-being and education of our next generation. we know that education is the ultimate bridge out of poverty, but the fact remains that cannot expect our children to be hungry for knowledge if they are just plain hungry. when we provide students with access to nutritious meals, we are not just nursing their bodies, we are feeding their minds. in his first proposed budget, my half $1included over million to help improvements to alternative service models, like breakfast in the classroom, grab and go breakfast and second chance

that we have to recognize the most 15 million people are unemployed or underemployed after the recession belabor participation rate is the lowest since 1978 obama is the only president since hoover to not preside over a single year of 3 percent growth in media and household income remains $1,000 lower than the pre-recession levels. we have a different pinpointed the recognize you believe the unconventional strategy has worked but if it has worked so well the white are we still reinvesting in not shrinking the balance sheet? >> we are beginning to remove foreign policy accommodation in respect to continue to do so. n.v. have decided the best way to do that is by raising short-term interest rates or the fed funds rate target. we are committed to shrinking the balance sheet but considering from the standpoint of sustaining a. >> i recognize that yesterday said u.n. not start to shrink and tell the fed funds rate was high enough to be reduced again with turbulence so what is high even of? >> did depends there is no unique level on the strength of the recovery or how worried we are about the

he think there are more underemployed people than being reported.ramifications of changing that methodology? dean slaughter: they would make it difficult for market participants and companies to understand the changes over time that the u.s. economy is realizing. our bureau of labor statistics does a very careful and conscientious job of measuring a number of dimensions of unemployment. comesadline figure that out on friday morning is only one measure of underemployment the u.s. government currently tracks. the integrity of how we measure those things and changes over time should never be taken lightly. standard that you periodically review this type of thing and consider possibilities or is this out of the ordinary? i think changes that have come from the statistical agencies are most reliable and i think most trusted when they come from the statistical agencies themselves and from other areas of policy and academic research. the global economy is becoming much more complex and so the issues of how we measure ares-border transitions increasingly im

are e aren't just -- ememployed but underemployed. making less today than they were before the great crash in 2008, 2009, 2010. so what are we going to do? i know we've talked a lot about, we're going to retrain you, it's going to be great, we're going to get you this job, you're going to be trained up, ready to take it. what job? we need to create jobs. and it just so happens we need to rebuild the country. so let's make the investment to put people back to work by rebuilding the country. we need water line, we need new sewer lines, we have lead in our pipes that people are drinking. we have old, dilapidated homes all over older communities that need taken down, even if we're going to put up just parks and green space. take those down. those are all jobs that could be created. we need roads and new bridges. most bridges are deficient in the united states. a good many of them need rebuilt. and we need steel in those bridges. and we need concrete. so let's do a big jobs bill where we rebuild the country, not making stuff up, we've got