president, the economic recovery is real, but uneven. the census bureau, just a month ago, reported that there are more people living under poverty now, a million more people living under it, than when you took office. there have been a number of studies, including studies by the urban institute and other nonpolitical organizations, that say that the impact of the tax and budget cuts and your economic policies have impacted severely on certain classes of americans -- working mothers, head of households, minority groups, elderly poor. in fact, they're saying the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer under your policies. what relief can you offer to the working poor, to the minorities, and to the women head of households who have borne the brunt of these economic programs? what can you offer them in the future, in your next term? >> well, some of those facts and figures just don't stand up. yes, there has been an increase in poverty, but it is a lower rate of increase than it was in the preceding years before we got here.

mitt made millions by exploiting the very uneven playing field that the president is fix.nt obama is trying to bring home the jobs that mitt romney helped to send away. everybody knows this. the press, the president, even china, who said last week it is rather ironic that a considerable portion of this china-battering politician's waelt was actually obtained by doing business with chinese companies before he entered politics. everybody knows what mitt romney stood for yesterday. everyone, apparently except for mitt romney today. this of course is just the latest unbelievable unacceptable example of romney contorting himself to suit his political ambitions when he wanted a personal fortune he profited from unfettered free trade and sending job from the people of ohio to the government of china, but today when he votes, he is doing what he does best. lying and flip flopping his past. sorry mitt, these people are working too hard on an extremely uneven playing field and they know who til health matters to all of us. that's why lysol has started a mission for health. with new

president, the economic recovery is real, but uneven. the census bureau, just a month ago, reported that there are more people living under poverty now, a million more people living under it, than when you took office. there have been a number of studies, including studies by the urban institute and other nonpolitical organizations, that say that the impact of the tax and budget cuts and your economic policies have impacted severely on certain classes of americans -- working mothers, head of households, minority groups, elderly poor. in fact, they're saying the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer under your policies. what relief can you offer to the working poor, to the minorities, and to the women head of households who have borne the brunt of these economic programs? future, in your next term? >> well, some of those facts and figures just don't stand up. yes, there has been an increase in poverty, but it is a lower rate of increase than it was in the preceding years before we got here. it has begun to decline, but i

but american businesses and workers struggling in an uneven playing field know better. >> now, our area, virginia u.s. senate candidates tim kaine and george allen will face off this thursday. you can watch it live here on nbc 4 at noon. meet the press host david gregory will moderate. >> the apple iphone 5 has set a new record. pre-orders from the phone topped 2 million in the first 24 hours. it's more than double from the previous iphone. apple says demand exceeded its expectations and the number ofrders larger than its official supply. >> coming up next is your e-reader reading you? see what the device can track and what it could mean. >> two big stars leaving the judge's panel on "the voice." >> and this dance craze is taking the internet by storm. >>> olympic gold medallist has been arrested in nashville. the snow border sporting a black eye in his mug shot. he's charged with vandalism and public intoxication. he's accused of pulling a fire alarm forszing an evacuation. the 26-year-old is also charged with breaking a hotel phone. white was injured running from the scene and had to

on the front lines, the struggle always seems uneven. but they inch forward against the destructive power of artillery and jets. for the time being, at least, syria's rebels know that here on the ground, they are on their own. >> for more on the unfolding events on the ground in syria, i spoke with our chief international correspondent just a brief time ago. he has gained rare access in damascus. >> you have described damascus as a bubble, insulated from the wider civil war. >> that bubble has been absolutely shattered. the first thing we saw going into damascus today on a sunny day was a huge plume of black smoke rising from one of the neighborhoods, where there is now shelling night and day. we also heard for the first time as night fell, helicopter gunships taking to the skies. there are many more check posts coming into the city and across the city. there are a few places where traffic is brisk, the shops are crowded, and the streets are open. some are going on about their day as if life was normal, but life is not normal here. as on

so the actual work flow can be very uneven. and the work consists of two main kinds of work. one is so in order if you will extension of staff, which i think commissioner woo ho what you are referring to asking the good question if you should just staff-up? and third party opinions, specifically to either verify our work or to help in these situations, which one way or another, end up in negotiations. so that is one of the reasons for us to use those purposes. i would also say that i think this past year, or really two years has shown our work can be very variable, with the america's cup and the bigger projects happening right now. that is hard for us to foresee, and it's very different than it has been in years past. so think the as-need contracts help even out the staff capacity. >> good afternoon, commissioners. senior engineer of the port. i just want to point out some of the as-needed professional engineering services includes, like, technical investigation work, which usually is not done by the city staff. and also, the cost of work, we don't have a professional estimat

the first is the uneven development between e wealier coastal provinces and the st, underdeveloped interiorwe will look at the village of sijia, which has contact with both regions. it is located on china's most important transportation artery, the chang jiang river. sijia is therefore exposed to people and goods moving between the poorer hinterland and the pacific coast, fewer than 200 miles to the east. the second great chinese disparity is between rural and urban places. although sijiahaalways, cities like nanjing and shanghai have a growing impact. the third disparity is economic, between the agricultural and industrial sectors. we look at a growing "township enterprise" and see its impact on a small, rural town. october marks the rice harvest in china's chang jiang river basin. li many people inhe town of sijia, ang guifang grows rice and . she even sells a surplus. but 70 a.m. each y, the not in the fields,mily jo wobut in new jobse, that bring special prosperity to some chinese villages. this i e huafgats facry, and its story illustrates the efforts to overcome some chinese dispariti

month before the election will distract from his record, but americans and workers struggling in an uneven playing field know better." in ohio yesterday, president obama addressed the trade issues and fired back at mitt romney, who has accused the president of not taking enough action against china. what's wrong with this picture? young people aren't buying cars like they once did. what happend to a set of wheels being a right of passage? the trend cannot be denied. the share of new cars bought by people 18 to 34 years old is down 30% in the past 5 years. is it the economy? some say so. but it may be demographic. the young in ever larger numbers are living in cities and prefer the convenience of public transportation and zip cars to the cost and headaches of owning your wheels. also, social media, where the young go to interact instead of hopping in a car to go cruising. general motors and the u.s. government are feeling some tension over a deal for shares in the automaker. the u.s. propped up the company with a $50-billion bailout in 2009, and now the u.s. owns over 26% of the company. gm

back on an average of 3.7% for the country per year for the next five years and the recovery will be unevenwe take a look at this map. we're showing you states in green. those prices there will rise by more than 5% per year in housz hou -- housing. a cnn money analysis shows that prices won't return to the 2006 highs until the year 2023. and some hard-hit states like california, florida, nevada, they're going to take even longer. but you know ha they say? they say that all real estate is local. here's where it's a seller's market. >> we put the house on the market the thursday before labor day, and we were under contract the following tuesday. >> this family is a sign of a recovering housing market. they bought their two-bedroom, one and a half bath row house in d.c.'s capital hill area for $355,000 in 2009. >> do you love live in capitol hill? >> yeah. >> now they're selling. >> we were thinking of listing around $340,000, and our realtor suggested $469, which at first i was worried about. so we went ahead and listed at that level. >> turned out to be the right thing to do. >> hungry buyer

. >> reporter: but across the country, the recovery has been uneven. nationally, the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.1%. but in four states-- north carolina, new jersey, california, and rhode island-- the jobless rate is still near 10% or above. in nevada it's more than 12%. that's why scott hoyt with moody's analytics is forecasting slow growth this holiday. >> it's going to be a modestly disappointing season. retailers are going to see growth in sales but not the kind of growth that they would like or even the kind of growth that they saw in the last two years. >> reporter: a disappointing season but not a disaster, hoyt says, two surveys are forecasting holiday hiring will increase this year but still well below prerecession levels. >> pelley: improvement but slow. thank you, anthony. now about those rising home prices. in phoenix, hit hard by the housing meltdown, prices were up more than 16% in july. in detroit they jumped more than 6%. and in denver prices were up nearly 5.5%. all of that good news for the folks who are keeping up with their m

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to cut the funding, to have unevenness, to take a project all the way, and then say well, we can't scale this up the way we should, or even maintain it the way we should? how can we do that. and it's not good for us. >> reporter: dr. civin says labs across the country may have to lay people off if their grants are defunded or reduced. eventually, that could lead to less research and fewer cures. he's especially worried about young scientists. some of them have new- potentially breakthrough- ideas, but might struggle to get financial backing when grants are harder to win. >> i have a pile of ten of those to review, and only one of those gets funded. i'm going to fund the surest thing. or recommend funding of the surest thing. that means by definition, the stuff that i'm used to. that i expect. that is an incremental gain. but this risky one, down at the bottom of the pile, well that could be great, but i'm just not sure. it's so new, it's so different, i'm not going to fund it. >> reporter: the sequester would have a similar effect on a wide range of programs across the country, from scie

what's bad about uneven surfaces that are slippery? we already talked about that. you fall, you're going to hurt yourself. is water a bad thing to have? water seeks its own level, there's a hole, covering up the hole. you could be walking and all of a sudden down into a hole, correct? or a basement. water has weight to it, can cause damage to buildings, cause buildings to collapse. and it doesn't mix very well with electricity. below ground hazards, if you come up and you see a leak and the water is pouring out of a building, you know how to control it or try to control it? sure, you go right up to that utility shut off, turn it off. basements are bad places to be. there's usually only one way out and that's the way you went in. if that's compromised, you are in big trouble. forcible entry. when do you use forcible entry, what kind of tools do you use? you want to go in -- first thing you need to do is always try to get in the easiest way. what do you want to use to force entry? you can use axs, you are use pry bars or jacks, car jacks. you need to do a lift, you d

ohio's recovery has been uneven. it depends where you are in the state.mer, unemployment dropped in half of 88 counties. even at that rate, it will take ohio three yeah years to get back where it was. red hitchson chased his american dream with a high school education and 13 years of hard work. >> you build this company? >> from start to finish. >> he employed 140 people in the town of carol, ohio, on us way back until the economy fell this summer. >> a lot o what we hear from industry is it's due to election. >> he laid seven employees and said he can't consider bringing them back to the white house. >> 30 miles north, homemaker henry says he is finally emerging from the recession. he was building 200 homes a year. then he hit a wall. he did not put up a single house for three years. this year, he built five. for him, the election is all about jobs. >> thigh amount buy homes. this is a key. if we go and do the same thing we have done in the last couple of years, see the economy drop back again. >> he will vote for governor romney. >> he took over a mess.

essentially she says it's an uneven playing field for the middle-class in particular. banks and a whole host of others , but is the middle-class. >> everybody knows she is out of for mind. she proved it last night with that statement. the system rage when the government chooses winners and losers. it reads the system. is the tax system raked? yes, absolutely. you can go through a myriad of things. look at the cost. a person who buys it makes 1,702,000 year. the guys who subsidizes it makes $36,000 a year, and we are supposed to make ourselves feel better about that. the system is rigged, but to reduce? gerri: last word. >> the sentiments that elisabeth expressed there, frankly, they have been expressed by many people making speeches. she happens to make it in prime time, but i think it is central to the obama campaign which is that the system is rigged against you. america is unjust. you don't have a fighting chance. there is no mobility, no opportunity. therefore government has to do more for you. government is your friend. the private sector is your enemy. that messa

if you throw it with your hand you get uneven distribution. >> that's where this comes in. you spent a lot of money. this bag can cover up to, why can't i see it now? up to 3500 square feet. that's reseeding. so in a new lawn probably only covers 1750 square feet. i know people who will use that in 200 square feet. that's too much. it's just not gonna do anything for you. >> they're gonna fail somewhere down the road. >> like vitamins, medicine, everything el. use the directions and apply it correctly. >> how late can we put the grass seed down? >> it totally depends on you and your forecast. i would say probably until about midoctober. then i'd slow it up. you can put it on after that. this new fertilizer act, you can't put fertilizer on after november 15th so be careful of that. >> this is the ideal time because next year you may have to compete with crab grass seed. >> exactly. exactly. get rid of some of that now. >> absolutely. have a green lawn. >> looking good. >> mary, thank for joining us. next sunday more on your sunday gardener. see you then. >> if you have a que

but it's very uneven progress.f the world it's greater than in other parts. >> tell us where that's the case. where is the most difficult places where young girls and women aren't making progress? >> well, if you look at the world economic forums gender gap report, for example, or you look at the undp's report on the arab world, you will see many of the arab countries, for example, clustered in the lower tiers of those statistics. and that is because the full potential of women economically and politically is not yet being tapped. the education gaps are -- there's a greater effort to close those gaps and there's greater progress. economically we are nowhere where we could be and should be to tap the potential that women represent. in terms of political participation, it is still among the weakest areas to really incorporate women into decision making and public policy so they can bring their experiences, their talents and perspectives to bear on some of the most important decisions of our times. >> where are the pl

because these steel beds and through the years people jump up and down on them, so it makes them uneven and gives you back problems for the rest of your life. and that's it. this is my home. this is my -- this is where i live. >> bailey is also allowed out of his cell once a day for an hour of recreation in an enclosed yard. >> why is it important to keep someone like this segregated? he seems to be just a sociable kind of guy. >> sure. a lot of sociopaths are. a lot of his problems are substance abuse related and that leads to other problems, for instance violence in the institution. that's why he is where he is. it isn't like he hasn't been in the open population, he has been, but he hasn't been successful. >> i've stabbed offenders for snitching. i've had illicit drug activity, i've organized gang group demonstrations. i've been incorrigible and been an all-around troublemaker for most of my years here at the prison. >> but bailey says there's a practical side to his behavior. >> in prison there's a delicate balance because some guys here are never going home. and for those of us who

. >> reporter: but across the country, the recovery has been uneven. nationally, the unemployment rate has dropped to 8.1%. but in four states-- north carolina, new jersey, california, and rhode island-- the jobless rate is still near 10% or above. in nevada it's more than 12%. that's why scott hoyt with moody's analytics is forecasting slow growth this holiday. >> it's going to be a modestly disappointing season. retailers are going to see growth in sales but not the kind of growth that they would like or even the kind of growth that they saw in the last two years. >> reporter: a disappointing season but not a disaster, hoyt says, two surveys are forecasting holiday hiring will increase this year but still well below prerecession levels. >> pelley: improvement but slow. thank you, anthony. now about those rising home prices. in phoenix, hit hard by the housing meltdown, prices were up more than 16% in july. in detroit they jumped more than 6%. and in denver prices were up nearly 5.5%. all of that good news for the folks who are keeping up with their m

the recovery is very uneven.act of the matter is that three quarters of all the towns in america are seeing some kind of appreciation and people think the housing market is laying low. >> love you, fan of the show. >> you're my man. >> what do they need to do to get the red tape so it is not so much of a headache. short sales and everything else, that was a stumbling block. >> a lot of good minded legislation was put in to protect the consumer. right now it is materializing as cheap appraisers, wrong appraisals. it is not protecting the consumer. it is taking the first and second time buyer out of the market. they can't get the house appraised. it is almost ironic what has happened. the legislation came out too late and the market was already turning the corner and now it is in the way. >> if i were an investor in this market with $500,000 to spend on an investment what market would be the best opportunity? >> the best opportunity is always the guy next door to you. you know the market and the right and wrong sid

rate there is 7.2% which is lower than the national average, but some argue the recovery has been uneventhe buckeye state. so which way will this state swing? with me now is fox news's bill hemmer who spent time on the ground in columbus. >> and other parts. melissa: this is the state you love. >> yes. melissa: you know it so well. >> my home state too. so i have a personal attachment to it. i think in any normal time 7.2% is absolutely unacceptable for any governor, in any state in america agreed? but lower than the national average and that is why that number gets a bit more attention right now. i find ohio confounding at the moment politically. melissa: yeah. >> in the southeastern part of the state unemployment is at 13%. melissa: wow. >> northwestern part of the state, unemployment is at 4 1/2%. melissa: wow. >> such a difference. melissa: like two different states. >> it is. i will tell you in a moment about why ohio is such a battle ground and how it reflects so much of america but first on, we met a guy by the name of brad hutchinson. he works in the small town of carroll, ohio.

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