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Thanks so much for coming in today. >> great to be with you, shannon. >> shannon: talk about the fact that unemployment remain is above 9%. held steady at 9.1%. didnt see an increase but not a decrease. what do you make of where we are right now? >> certainly very discouraging to the 14 million unemployed americans looking for jobs and the broader measure of unemployment which includes workers working part time who want full-time jobs. that went from 16.2% to 16.5%. there were more workers emplo...

Police can do. this is something of a calculated risk. when you start saying as a police agency, they are not cooperating, th-s tha that means you are turning up the pressure on that couple. jon: hope they find baby lis a. sthapbgs, steve jamaican there are new job numbers. the economy added 103,000 jobs in september. it may be more than analysts expected, at least some. but its not enough to lower the unemployment rate which is stuck at 9.1%. at the same time what about those americans who stop...

The last year, lobstermen reporting a drop in revenue from the prior year. crews ships, the largest customers of lobster are cutting back their orders because of the poor economy. jim? >> thank you very much, kiran. christine romans is minding your business this morning. kiran, we have you at the magic wall this morning. were looking at underemployment state by state across the country. some of the numbers are very disturbing. >> underemployment is different than unemployment. underemployment so...

African-americans is higher at 16.2, and hispanic and latinos at 12.9%. so how do you tackle that? alfred mentioned retraining? and how do you get the 16.2%, because it would a major improvement if the unemployment rate for blacks is just as same the rest as the country and not 60% higher. >> well, he definitely had a great point that the government has to make sure they play their role in make sure that they are funding a lot of job training initiatives, however on the other side, there are thi...

Showed the pllist. you are talking about a 16.2% decrease for health and human services, a 31.4% decrease for the epa. 28.7% decrease for the state department. and on and on. and, wolf, what youll have happened here in the coming days is youll have both democrats and republicans pick apart this budget and see things that they dont like. already hearing from the likes of senator rob portman from ohio. marco rubio, lindsey graham in south carolina, all saying that this budget in terms of some part...

So everything that were doing here in the here at the g-20 mirrors our efforts back home. >> melissa, the first part of that ques us up to speed about how they are looking from october. >> absolutely. he said he wasnt concerned about what the unemployment rate is going to be like, you know, around the political election, but the federal reserve came out this week and said its likely to be 8.5 to 8.7% still. thats a lot of people out of work. it doesnt even represent the full picture. if you look...

Thought we would have 100,000. >> reporter: its a polite number and an economic number. if you want to get the unemployment rate down to 8.5% by next november you need 200,000 jobs each and every month two now and then. if you want to get it down to 8 per you need 250,000 jobs. bill: the under employed? >> reporter: that number went down a lot. unemployed and those people in part-time work. thats 16.2 per. stuart varney, well catch you on fbn. martha: the unemployment rate from december of 2007,...

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