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Pitfalls we need to be mindful of, keeping in sight the fact that youre talking about real lives, real people trying to move out of poverty into a little thing called prosperity. >> i think a lot of us who grew up in jobs and we had a lot of seasonal jobs growing up, i worked for less than the minimum wag and the minimum wage but they were jobs. young people need those type of jobs. everybody wants to see people come up the economic ladder but the bad thing i think about that particular policy i...

Not too busy this morning. but it will all be different in about an hour. happening overnight a 3.8 manage tude earthquake shakes up central oklahoma. it happened around 11 central time north of oklahoma city. this just one of dozens to hit the state over the weekend. ter wide residents say the loud bombing earthquakes sound like bombs going up. it was sound waves within deep in the earth. some residents have seen minor damages to their houses. nor earthquake shaking up south carolina. the 3.2 m...

It is not just going to devastate poor families in louisiana. in 2007, a five to four decision by the supreme court and their conservative majority ruled that public school systems cannot factor in race in order to integrate school districts. they have cropped up in georgia, alabama, texas, and tennessee. the question of what will happen to americas poor and minority students is an open one. its not simply a question of funding. its also a question of leadership. minority students benefit from h...

Sector. its economy is tanking. gdp was half, more than 2012, 3.2. theres corruption rife within the country, labor supply, premature mortality rates. you add security in terms of the north caucusus region, corruption, no reform going on whatever and reliance on natural gas and oil, russia is not in a great place. >> gianni, nobody wants to be seen with putin or dont feel safe over there. very few of the western world leaders are going to the olympics this time. >> i dont plame them. i found out...

Jobs number thats going to come out this friday, because gdp was up 3.2% in the fourth quarter. thats the single best indicator the economy is growing, but its retrospective and more recent data havent shown the trend strengthen. manufacturing and construction have slowed, personal income and spending on big ticket items like cars has slow. many are saying the weak jobs number is more indicative of a broader slowdown so people are going to be focused on this fridays job figure. >> im looking at ...

"times" piece the economy has gotten better and better and obamas approval ratings have gotten lower and lower. i think what is the wages are still not going up. the rich are getting richer and that is a problem but less of a problem if everybody else was coming along with them so people feel dissatisfied by that and rightly so. >> so your first chart actually shows strong fourth quarter growth, right? >> yeah. we had the numbers yesterday as you saw. you can see on the left its 3.2% growth duri...

>> walkway nike. >> you did a great job. you did a great job. >> i think it was amazing. >> its all right. >> proud of you as an artist. >> later today, president obama and also some of the nations top -- will announce a plan to get the unemployed back on their feet. its part of the presidents post-state of the union push. however, "the new york times" says despite a growing economy, president obamas legacy, quote, may be slipping away. yesterday, the commerce department announced the economy gr...

The wealthy. >> nicole, that is horrible. you look at 71% of americans. >> that is bad morale. >> this is disconcerting if you told george w. bush the economy is growing at 3.2%, he probably would say, ill take it. yet, here you have 71% of americans dissatisfied with the economy despite that growth. >> yeah, i think that is why you hear speaker boehner yesterday saying that the republican party can no longer be the opposition party, it has to be the alternative party. i think that that belief, ...

On solid reports from the commerce department. jeff cutmore is live in london to tell us what we can expect today. >> exciting numbers, thomas, overnight in europe because we got a look at the fourth quarter gdp number, 3.2% for the united states. it could have been a percentage point higher if the government was out there spending as well, but the markets will take this for the time being because it shows strength both in consumer spending and private investment and thats the key here, whether ...

In october impacted growth, and you know what? it looks like it wasnt too dramatic. apparently reducing this figure by about .3 percentage points. without the shutdown, gdp would have been more. it would have been 3.5% instead of 3.2%. then we like to look at what drove the growth. consumers spent more. exports went up. also stronger business investment, and thats good stuff because it shows businesses in america have got more confidence in the economy because theyre handing out their cash. but ...