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>> absolutely, we have, again, labor participation 62.9% below 63% and its kind of been hanging below there really since the 2008 financial crisis. paul: james, let me ask you about trade because thats a huge issue, the tariffs with china beginning back and forth. how worried are you that this is going to effect the momentum that mary is talking about and the economy? >> yeah, its a drag. i think so this point you say that the trump tax cuts and deregulation are more powerful so far than the tra...

62.9% and wages, always a big part of the conversation if you compare june this year to june last year it has gone up 2.7%, a big increase, that is some positive news. >> not crumbs, as new jobs are added people say maybe it is time to compete to get better employees and maybe get another job, people feel freer to move up. >> that drives up wages ultimately, if the labor pool is shrinking you got to pay folks more money. >> 213,000 new jobs in the month of june. >> her job is the headlines, she ...

Between may to june. that represents a 2.7% increase on a year over year basis. i will point out, the rate which some people call it the under employment rate. thats at 7.8%. more people looking for job and 62.9%. >> a couple of industries to focus on as well. >> professional business services added 50,000 jobs and manufacturing added 36,000 jobs and healthcare 25,000 jobs and construction of 13,000 jobs. the notable decline regarding to job losses was in retail where we saw 22,000 jobs lost. yo...

Combine everything january and february. revised our numbers down by 50,000 and march was a bit of a miss. labor force participation at 62.9%. a little bit of a softer number. manufacturing added about 22,000 jobs. thats good. retail just continues to cant get out of its own way. toys r us bankruptcy is going to cloud some numbers. retail lost a few thousand jobs. every toys r us in america shutting down. a lot of people put out of work. retail was week. manufacturing good. overall the number on...

The jobs was a bit of a disappoint. we come in with 156,000 jobs, its one of the more volatile months. its hard to put everything into this number. expectations for economists were 180,000 t. higher employment rate ticks higher to 4.4%. i will also point out that average hourly earnings, thats something a lot of economists want to watch in order to see if wages are rising given whats happening with the economy, were up one-tenth of 1%. we did get downward revisions to both july and june of about...

Why yesterday was in fact an egregious error and the short point is one ought never to rank antisemiticism and racism with a criticism of anything else. no matter how bad that anything else might be. i understand the trump supporter, the base vote. 63 million people voted for donald trump. 62.9 to be specific. probably 6,000 are racists, anti-semitic nuts. and the rest are not and they hate to be lumped in with that. but its important for conservatives to realize that the message of lincoln and ...

Health reform and tax reform. it is still at 62.9. is pretty low considering historical averages this administration is pro- business. it should be an upside for the market. im still hopeful about tax reform. the relationships with world leaders what does that do to the economy in the market. you had been here from day one. the cost of freedom. there is a cost to this kind of behavior. and there is two issues. the one that john brought up

>> we are going to win so much you may get tired of winning and say please, it is too much winning. we cant take it anymore. >> thank you. the us keeps on winning. >> us employers adding 211,000 jobs to the market continuing the trend of economic growth. >> job participation, us participation rate rising to 62.9%. to react, host of the intelligence report, trish regan. participation rate. what does that mean and why is it important. >> this is very interesting because it is basically how many pe...

Depth. the workforce parties ration rate is 62.9%. this is stubbornly low, the people who could be working who werent working. this should be in the high 60s and its in the low 60s. its been that way for a few years. this is really important for people to think about. the average hourly wage is now $26.19. so compare that to what you earn and understand that that is up 2.5% from last year. this is important. is your wage up 2.5% from last year? have you done better than that? youre doing better ...

January and february. it weakened and that was weaker than expected in march. only 78,000 jobs or so added in march. it looks like this is good news that things are picking up in april and maybe the economy should rebound from a very weak start of the year from economic growth. wanted to mention wages. they grew 2.5% from last year. so, its good to see wages climbing but we need to see better wage growth. were seeing such tight innocence the labor market, so much demand for jobs, we should see w...