in the last few weeks alone the percentage of americans who were unemployed, underemployed, or who have given up finding a job has dropped to a 17-year low. recently new jobless claims reached their lowest level since 1969. and the total number of americans receiving unemployment benefits is as small as it has been since, listen to this, 1973. let me put that another way. notwithstanding 45 years of population growth there are fewer total americans receiving unemployment benefits under president trump and this republican congress than at any other point under presidents ford, carter, reagan, bush, clinton, bush, or obama. now, we all know economic indicators can be volatile and washington is far from the only force behind them. in fact, getting the federal government out of the way is often the solution. the headwinds that blew in the face of american entrepreneurs and small businesses owners for eight years has died down. now the wind is at their backs. in december of 2017, after one year of republican policies, optimism among american manufacturers hit the highest level ever recorded.

capacity because you are trying to fill positions, have you been, has the department always been underemployed in terms of not being able to fill positions, or was there a period where you actually had positions filled? because if that's, if the answer is yes, then it seems still, the question that supervisor fewer raises, is also my concern is that even at capacity, if it were at capacity, there was -- there were complaints about not having enough inspectors to do the work that we need to have done in san francisco. >> yes, i understand the question. so, i've been with the department for the past four years or so and we have not been at capacity. and so that's why we had not requested additional. if you can recall during the down turn, the department had laid off a lot of employees, and we started to build that up by increasing the numbers. and so we have increased the numbers, and so what we have been trying to do, basically using the existing from those increases and filling them. what one of the challenges that we do have, and from this year alone, we had about 25 retirements. a lot of tim

but we also have people who are underemployed.nd our goal in oklahoma is to give people a good paying job so our economy will grow stronger, and everyone will be more prosperous in our state. so what we've been focusing on in our state is how do we align our educational courses and degrees and certificates with the actual needs of the job openings that businesses have? how do you make sure that you have the relevant skilled educated workforce to be able to fill those job openings? and that's the number one issue i hear from employers right now is i have more opportunities to invest and add more jobs, but i can't find the skilled workers that i need with the right skills. and then on the other hand, as a mother that has six children between my husband and i, they're all 25 and above, we all want our children to graduate from college to be able to find a good job. test test test test test test test test test test test test. . >>> but our economy is growing at more than 2% and that can't -- those two conditions can't coexist. you hav

specific programming and all of the providers are generally trying to reach out who is unclear and underemployed. we did do a data pool and last year 7% of our participants were 60 and older. this year through march 31, it's ticked up to 8.5%. i have also included most of the providers if not all the providers do serve participants within this demographic and what we have listed is the providers that are sort of with the biggest concentration and the top five with the wiggest with the biggest concentration from last year and this year. we spoke with the providers and the gaps they are seeing and the services they need specific to this community, and what we really have seen is there is -- as far as what our providers are seeing, there is a confidence issue and there is also just really moving into a work econo economy, brushing up skills and making sure that you can compete and are familiar with the workforce in today's economy. so understanding and being able to connect to contract employment to really make sure they have robust marketing experience and skills development because of a whole lif

the state's employment requirements to certain recipients has meant that many of its disabled, underemployed those without transportation have been unable to work enough to stay eligible. so to shore up the suffering and in september, nearly 70 of the state's mayors asked the ohio department of jobs and family services for $12 million, $8 million to pay household water bills, another $4 million to purchase vital items like over-the-counter medicines, first aid supplies, and even diapers. and the request was already paid for, coming out of the $570 million in federal block grant funding the state has saved from the slimmer welfare roles. but for seven straight months, the answer was no. then earlier this month, a response. this september the state will allocate $500,000 in block grant funding to help residents pay their water bills for a month. as for the $4 million for band-aids and diapers, no mention. i guess as long as the baby is clean you can take chances with the carpet, right? but here's the best part. the money will come from funds slated for nonprofits that helped the same kind of p

we see that the number of underemployed people want to work more hours than they are currently workingto the tea? —— productivity? data. what about product to the tea? -- productivity? although the economy has been very good at creating jobs, the output from those jobs has been growing at a very slow pace. that's a big worry for the bank of england as it means that our economy went the growing as fast as it could be. you mentioned those figures at the top, wages up to .9% for the three months to march. wages ahead of inflation, do you think that gap will widen going forward?” think it might. we've seen energy prices rising in recent weeks and thatis prices rising in recent weeks and that is vented feed through into the inflation rate. 0verall work likely to see a further pick—up... it's likely that will eased slightly higher public sector wages. that should mean that wages are rising at a faster pace than prices. thank you. a £68 million loss over 6 months might not sound great but for easyjet it's boosted their share price almost 3%. the budget carrier cut its losses, expanding capaci

as you said, unemployment is not the big issue, one and three veterans are underemployed and that's becauseing the skills correctly that veterans have. in many reasons because they don't understand the jargon of military experience and haven't lived that life themselves in corporate america, what they do well is they provide mentoring, work on translation of the veteran resume to find out what is the real skill set that we can people to work directly with. dagen: kevin is in etf business. do these companies although they do great work with veterans, do they make good investment in. kevin: right that was where do we position ourselves for our portfolios for something like this, is this meant to be overlay, we have our core positions and then just add in sort of position in this because socially-conscious investing, when i look at performance, it can be choppy. you're kind of ignoring performance at the main driver, right, how do you position a product like this in your portfolio? >> that's right. many advisers, investors out there who have bad taste in mouth about social-responsible investin

we are underemployed, we are unemployed. the people who are working every day, for wages to bring home, are the ones paying for every tax break given to the 1% in this country. you can give millions and millions of dollars in the state of new jersey even to the wealthiest 1% and ask nothing in return. if you're an individual you're asked nothing in return. if you're a corporation, you're not even asked to create a job, a training opportunity, or to increase wages. you're not -- do not talk to me about those people who are on snap and what they should be doing. talk to me about what america should be doing for all of its people. because we're all members of the human race. some of us just weren't born rich. some of us just don't have the opportunity to go around with a silver spoon in our mouths. this congress should be ashamed of itself for not taking care of those and not taking care of the needs of those who simply need government to recognize that it represents everybody. not the very wealthy. i thank you for the opportun

programs and the other workforce training programs, you know the number one reason is why people are underemployed? you got it from the secretary of the treasury couple weeks ago. they can pass the drug test. wow. the opioid epidemic. what's another reason? they can't read and write. have all kinds of other problems. and were gonna solve all those with a seven, nine, $10,000,000,000.20 a week for a couple weeks? we should be referring to that to the labor committee. they specialize in that. we specialize in helping with rule development and feeding people who are hungry. that's our job. i've got to tell you, this career and technical education program, you know the only thing wrong with it, we don't find it enough. i've got employers sing that's the best program, i get the best employees out of that, but it's a comprehensive program that actually gets people trained and into the workplace. we should be referring not to that committee. we should do what we do. so let's get back to the process that this country has operated under for several hundreds of years. it took advantage of the benefit of all

months into this trump administration, and the percentage of american workers who are unemployed, underemployed, or giving up finding a job is smaller than it ever was in any of the obama years. in fact, it hasn't been this low since 2001. let me say that again, less under employment, unemployment, and discouragement than in the past 8 years. and there are fewer receiving unemployment benefits since 1973. we all know these economic indicators can be noisy, but the big overall shift from the obama era is impossible to deny. republican policies are taking washington's foot off the brake of the economy, we got rid of a hoes of job killers, provided jobs for job creators. this is a dynamic growing economy that is producing many more new jobs that put the stagnation of the last decade literally to shame. that means that sideline workers get to check back into the game. it means renewal is coming to so many small towns, small cities and rural areas that had to sit and watch as democratic policies funneled all the new wealth and new jobs into the nation's biggest and bluest urban areas. it means highe