to job creation in this country. this is a job promoting brill. this is a job-inducing bill. this will crush jobs. health care legislation is job creating. it will increase spending increase taxes and destroy jobs in america. jenna: well you can t get too far apart, right? job-promoting or job-killing obviously different opinions on this we ll ask this question to our town hall panel today. david cutler applied economics of harvard university and fellow at center for american progress. douglas holtz-eakin former director of congressional office and bob brusca. fact and opinion economics. david, i will start off with you, why do you believe this new health care law will create jobs? it is actually very simple. what we know is that when business health care costs rise, they higher fewer workers. and what the bill that was passed last year did is work to lower the cost of business spending on health insurance. therefore when those costs
rhode island to florida. eric shawn live in the new york city newsroom, bring us up to date. reporter: they got pinched this morning, the biggest mafia roundup that s being called in u.s. history. terrorist cases have recently been making the headlines for the past several years but this arrest seems to indicate that organized crime, specifically the maf kwrarbgs alive and well and still surviving, despite law enforcement crackdowns. you re looking at video shot this morning at for him heartilton, brooklyn in new york, an army installation. so many alleged wise guys were nabbed but they had to use this army installation to deal with them. this video apparently not showing faces of the accused, because they are presumed to be innocent. this sweep, more than 100, new york, new jersey, rhode island, involving seven mob family, the five family, gambino, genoveve, mankose families and the new jersey family that are the inspiration for the sopranos and the patriaca crime family,
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt jeff: good evening everyone. state attorneys general in most of the country are joining forces to investigate foreclosure processing. a formal announcement could come tomorrow. suzanne, several banks have already voluntarily stopped foreclosures and pressure is building on others like citigroup and wells fargo to follow suit. suzanne: jeff, the obama administration seems to have ruled out a nationwide moratorium on foreclosures. and a major securities lobbying group said such drastic action would be catastrophic and mean big losses for investors in the housing market. jeff: as stephanie dhue reports, experts say there s a better solution. reporter: banks will take over 1.2 million homes this year, up from 100,00 before the housing bust. that huge number of foreclosures has exposed a flawed system never designed to handle that kind of volume. micha
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt jeff: good evening everyone. state attorneys general in most of the country are joining forces to investigate foreclosure processing. a formal announcement could come tomorrow. suzanne, several banks have already voluntarily stopped foreclosures and pressure is building on others like citigroup and wells fargo to follow suit. suzanne: jeff, the obama administration seems to have ruled out a nationwide moratorium on foreclosures. and a major securities lobbying group said such drastic action would be catastrophic and mean big losses for investors in the housing market. jeff: as stephanie dhue reports, experts say there s a better solution. reporter: banks will take over 1.2 million homes this year, up from 100,00 before the housing bust. that huge number of foreclosures has exposed a flawed system never designed to handle that kind of volume. micha
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt jeff: good evening everyone. state attorneys general in most of the country are joining forces to investigate foreclosure processing. a formal announcement could come tomorrow. suzanne, several banks have already voluntarily stopped foreclosures and pressure is building on others like citigroup and wells fargo to follow suit. suzanne: jeff, the obama administration seems to have ruled out a nationwide moratorium on foreclosures. and a major securities lobbying group said such drastic action would be catastrophic and mean big losses for investors in the housing market. jeff: as stephanie dhue reports, experts say there s a better solution. reporter: banks will take over 1.2 million homes this year, up from 100,00 before the housing bust. that huge number of foreclosures has exposed a flawed system never designed to handle that kind of volume. micha