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Sb-1070 considered the toughest antiimmigration law in the country and the target of a federal lawsuit by the united states justice department. even if you only had political rhetoric as your guide you know the united states is growing more diverse. in 1980 the number of those two said they were hispanic just over 14.5 million and 6% of the population but by the year 2000 that number more than doubled. the hispanic population then at over 35 million. now making up 12.5% of the population. colu...

Jobs last month. many are census workers, a one-time thing but its not a very strong labor market. jenna: you said the weekly number has gone down two weeks in a row. is that because people are getting hired ambassador because people are kpa*uing the benefits? >> we see that in the claims figure which did go down a little bit like the figure on weekly jobless claims. they dont break it down, its hard to tell, but it may be even though unemployment benefits have been extended they dont last forev...

Hit in january by the increase in taxes unless something is changed, are they not hiring, laying people off. >> reporter: they are not hiring and some are laying people off. many small businesses are run like a personal business, so the income you get from it is taxed at personal income tax rates. if youre successful your tax rate on january the 1st, because youre successful, is going to go up several percentage points. that represents a huge tax increase. other taxes are going to go up as well....

Still at 9.5%. with us now cnbcs hampton peerson to explain. thanks to the census, theres a net loss. tell us the details. >> well first of all, a net loss of census workers, they dropped out as of last month and a private sector gain of 71,000. back to the headline number, chuck, 9.5% unemployment unchanged. the reason is, frankly, fewer people actively looking for work last month and we had this big decline overall in payroll jobs of 131,000. the other thing, too, to drill down a little more o...

The end. >> how do you feel when you hear some of these lawmakers and pundits who go out there and say people are lazy, people are looking for a free lunch, how does that make you feel knowing how hard you have looked for a job? >> i try not to think about it, but it does make me angry to hear when people generalize the unemployed population. i have a great college degree, i had an amazing job before i got laid off and i am -- i have good skills and so i think everyone out there whos looking for...

That. the white house is working hard to convince us that their economic policies are succeeding without declaring a premature victory. but as they try to drag us out of this recession, they should pay attention to our neighbors to the north. in less than a year, canada has recovered almost all the jobs it lost during the recession. unemployment rate dropped below%. the unemployment rate here in the united states just under 10% and 700,000 census workers are about to join the ranks of the unempl...

Context. christine romans joins us me live from new york. what does this number actually tell us? >> it tells us that the unemployment rate in this country now stands at 9.5%. you are right. thats better than people had hoped and it is a decline in the jobless rate. but not necessarily because of a bunch of people got jobs. 600,000 people simply stopped looking for work that are no longer counted in the figures. when we look at job creation overall the economy lost 125,000 jobs in the month of j...

It takes the consumer to say im going to wait to do what im planning on doing and that is a concern. >> it gets confusing but there is this contradiction we hear the number come out and we get the percentage. 9.8% unemployment but then what were looking at is number of jobs and might be fewer people looking. what should we be focused on when we look at that number? >> that number moves around a bit. you do want it to ultimately move down but youre right. month-to-month, especially given what the...

Things are going in the economy. regardless of whether its backward looking in any way, shape, or form, weve gotten a lot of different pieces of information lately, whether its housing or auto sales or any number of other data points that are concerning investors, that are concerning everybody, namely, about the fact that we may be headed into this so-called double dip. were certainly a slowdown of some kind. even if its not true it could have a psychological impact that proves self-fulfilling. ...

Tremendous growth that people were counting on and banking oncoming out of asia. and then the other biggy and its been out there for a while, and its continued to plague this market, thats europe. and the fears of a debt contagion crisis. all of this, chris, adding up to concerns about a global slowdown. and if youve got a global slowdown, youre going to have a hard time getting people back to work. so yes, its all sort of folded in together, a lot of concerns about what this job numbers going t...