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that it is on the right track. merkel reaffirmed her confidence. we expect to hear from president obama about the drop in the jobless rate just minutes from now. the president is also going to be outlining a plan to upgrade buildings, make them more energy efficient. the administration says it will create tens of thousands of construction jobs. the president speaking about 11:10 eastern. well take you there live. senators trying to figure out a compromise today to extend the payrol...

Congress, the house and the senate, call for investigations, so theyre going to get to the bottom of it and some in the industry think there ought to be more stringent protocols on those flash trading programs but obviously that turbulence was unsettling to the country and greece -- fears about greece, concerns going forward, play into that. it will be interesting to see how much thats offset by the strong jobs numbers this morning. >> and you lead me perfectly to a question for greg. if youve b...

Todays march job report is a small step forward. savannah guthrie and ron brownstein is joining us. the president was looking on the bright side but they dont want to go out too far. everyone remembers what happened in 1992 when george herbert walker bush sounded too positive about a declining economy and got slammed. >> yeah. i think they are pleased to see some job growth. the consensus forecast was to add 200,000 jobs and the economy added 168,000 jobs, about a third ever them from census hir...

Fridays report will be boosted by two things. the adp report does not take into account. first youve got the census hiring. if government has been doing the hiring of thousands of people to handle the 2010 census. those jobs are only going to last until the summer. the february blizzards that took out a good chunk of the country. they kept employers from hiring. so in march those employers may have to make up for that. one economist says if you take those two things out, factor those away the ad...

We have create add lot of low skilled jobs that dont pay as well as the manufacturing jobs we lost over the past ten years. thats a big issue here. whats the quality of the jobs coming back? tony, we have talked about permalancers, contract workers, independent contractors. you get a job and the boss says, but you will be a contract worker. were not handling your health insurance or anything else. thats 30% of the work force now. >> we are anticipating a pop here as the government ramped up empl...

See any net new job creation. three factors to consider: number one, the bad weather of the past month, apparently the labor department says it didnt have any effect on the numbers, number two, census hiring, we hired 15,000 people to work on the census in the month of february, but that was balanced out by big job losses in the postal service. factor number three, and this is probably the most important, we are still having a shrinking work force. one hundred fifty-five million people in the wo...

What was happening in the industry that you may work in. construction lost another 75,000 jobs. this is a pick up. this shows you the industry is still in trouble and losing more jobs. there were some gains in temporary workers. as we told you many times, kyra, when you start to see companies tiptoeing in to hire temporary workers, things are getting better. retail jobs, 42,000 created. health care, 15,000. no surprise there. government jobs, 33,000. a couple economists telling me they think cen...

But the president is not going to lose his focus. its very much there are still more targeted things we could do to help the private sector, like he wants to get a small business jobs bill through congress that includes $30 billion for lending fund for small businesses. we know thats how were going to help them get credit and create jobs. >> if you look now, in greece, one-quarter of the jobs created by the government there, a lot of those demonstrating are private citizens and private workers. ...

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