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The unemployment rate take slightly higher to 4%, which the labor department says is a likely technicality of the shutdown due to some workers being temporarily listed as unemployed. wages also continue to improve in january, growing 3.2% over last year. now, a look at the doubt. its friday. boom, there it is. we are in green territory, they are. that good. we burst above 25,000 again. melissa being money melissa, that is. [laughter] the president is touting the numbers by treating this. "thats ...

The world by far. >> neil, when i spoke with kevin hassert, he pointed to a few things that they like and see in the numbers. first off, what you just said, the 100 straight months of job growth. that dates back to the obama years. but hasset said its 100 months in and youre seeing a 300,000 plus number, its a very good sign. secondly, he pointed to the 3.2% year over year in earnings. he thinks that vindicates the tax cuts. thats why were seeing the 3.2% number. also, they said even though the ...

Here is the number i like to pay a little more attention to. you take the jobs added minus the jobs lost, and you get 304. that is a very strong number. november was up to 196,000 jobs that i believe to be a strong number. december was revised down by 90,000, that is a high revision downward, but the resulting number was 220,000 jobs. that is very strong. when you take all of 2018s numbers you net new jobs. very strong. wages up 3.2%. you always have to consider there is inflation. your wage inc...

Better than that. the question remains as to whether well see revisions to that in the following couple of months. okay, heres where the rubber hits the road. wages, this is what matters to people. we have seen a net wage increase of 3.2% year over year. you have to factor inflation over that. inflation is lower than this amount. people are seeing a small increase. this is the number we want to sort of see on a consistent basis without huge inflation. all right. and then lets talk about some...

Based on my conversations here at the white house, when we were talking to officials here in the hours after that sort of sharp divide, there was no denial there was that sharp divide. the officials here saying the president believes what he believes. might not necessarily line up with what his intelligence chiefs are saying, steph. >> a whole other level right there. thank you, garrett, i appreciate you joining me. we have more breaking news for you. it is the first friday in february. that mea...

Of .10%. the unemployment rate was 3.9% before this. this is not the important stuff. the important stuff is the number of jobs created in a months. 304,000. as you said we were predicting around 165,000. this is for january. there are always revisions to the two prior months. november was revised up, so 196,000 jobs were created in november. december was revised down by 90,000 jobs. still to 222,000. thats still a very, very strong number. when you talk all of 2018 together including the revisi...

Slow down coming in through the numbers. it means employers are still confident enough to hire. i made the point that, you know, luckily the economy is strong enough and labor markets are tight enough in a different economy those workers who were furloughed wouldnt have the opportunity to pick up some extra money and at least try to cover some of their bills with part-time work. so thats really good. so right now the numbers are not signalling, you know, red, this is a recession. nor are they si...

Taxes about 3.2% of their total wealth. thats the whole thing all in. the 99% will pay more than double that, about 7.2% of their total wealth. so part of what this is about is just to say the playing field looks like this. could we just make it look a little bit more like this. could we just level the playing field a little bit and then heres the key part. this would produce revenue about 2 3/4 trillion dollars over the next ten years. how about we invest that in child care so that hard working...

Think of two people, one of them inherited just gobs of everything, and enjoys it all. the second one is a public schoolteacher, doesnt have a penny in the bank, whos just made it through college. lets just say both of them earn $50,000 a year in their respective work. they would pay exactly the same in taxes even though their economic circumstances are widely different. and in fact, the fact that we dont tax wealth is one more way in which the system has been rigged by the rich and powerful for...

3.2% wage growth. and the central bank expected to leave interest rates unchanged on wednesday, but jerome powell has his press conference following the decision. expect the topic of future rate hikes to come up. a measles outbreak has led to a state of emergency in washington state. officials confirming 35 cases, 30 of them involving those who have not been vaccinated for the disease. more than two-thirds of the cases involve children under 11. the problem has spread to oregon has well. peopl...