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Backing. meantime the mayor of wind mere, florida, had to be taken to the hospital after a scuffle during a town council meeting. witnesses say the town managers husband attacked the mayor during an argument. he is expected to be okay. the city of detroit losing a quarter of its population over the past decade according to new census numbers. to put this in perspective the amount of people who have left the motor city is comparable to the entire population of orlando, florida. and police i...

Bill: "fox news alert," brand new snapshot of the american economy, are we turning the corner, unemployment numbers, the month of march, hat theyve press, jobless rate holding steady, exactly 9.7% and what changed, employers added 162,000 jobs last month, the most we have seen, since the great recession began and most we have seen almost three years, in fact, and, far short of what economists predicted and the number of people unemployed, around 17 million americans. if you add them all up. mart...

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...

Figur figures, they were lowering standards to avoid the penalties. do you agree with that decision? >> i think that change was appropriate. and i dont disagree with president obama and arne duncan have done. but at the same time, there is quite a record that no child left behind has accomplished a great deal. it has started the process of setting standards and has brought lots of children up to those standards. but at the same time, lets see if theyre not modifications that can be made to make ...

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Decade. that, by the way, is the slowest growth rate since the great depression in the 1930s. two areas, the politics and the economy. kate bolduan is in washington right now with the political angle. kate, youve been digging through the numbers. what do you make of this? >> there are a lot of numbers but theyre important numbers. were trying to give you a picture of what were getting. were getting through this the first snapshot of how the political landscape in this country is changing for the...

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What are they saying? >> robert gibbs saying today he doesnt think it will have a huge impact. the president will get fewer electoral vote unless 2012. if you look at the wide margin of strictry that the president had in 2008, this would not have been a factor at all. this would have come in to play would have been like in 2000 when the race was much tighter. the bottom line is, though, what were talking about here in the 2012 campaign which is president has not formally said he is running. yet ...

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