the world. when we look at where we are economically and we are a stronger economically we have been in history. steve: historic. best in the world. maybe in their world but not in the real world it is the reality this labor day weekend joe biden america is working. yes it is true the unemployment rate is low but the main reason the rate is low because so many americans stopped looking for work just this week we saw the latest figures for job openings way ahead of expectation nearly an all-time record spinning this with good news people are hiring. no. they cannot find people to do the work one of the reasons why we have runaway inflation. look at this we keep focusing on this because it is so important the labor participation rate is still the lowest outside of the pandemic shut down for 45 years is just over 60 percent that means 40 percent of americans of working age are not working. that s not just an economic disaster but social disaster study after study has shown hav
maybe in their world but not in the real world it is the reality this labor day weekend joe biden america is working. yes it is true the unemployment rate is low but the main reason the rate is low because so many americans stopped looking for work just this week we saw the latest figures for job openings way ahead of expectation nearly an all-time record spinning this with good news people are hiring. no. they cannot find people to do the work one of the reasons why we have runaway inflation. look at this we keep focusing on this because it is so important the labor participation rate is still the lowest outside of the pandemic shut down for 45 years is just over 60 percent that means 40 percent of americans of working age are not working. that s not just an economic disaster but social disaster study after study has shown having a job for the most important building blocks of the help happy and flourishing life battle for families and communities and our entire country but
thank you. as you can imagine, politics is a total blood support the reason i m a republican, it s because those are my values of human being, i think that s resonating with other hispanics as well. how many of you voted for trump in 2020? i m not scared to say that i voted for trump. but i already voted for obama. the biggest misconception is that latinos are supposedly democrats. my first language was spanish, i m definitely not a white supremacist. we have a right to be there in protest. he is the best damn president in u.s. history. do you believe that the 2020 election was stolen? yes, i believe that president trump won that election, and i believe that voter fraud occurred. to me, 2020 was the political awakening. your children are not safe amid school systems. he s me man. i don t have anything against the lgbtq community at all, i don t think the kids should have it pushed on them. all right lately it s our always socialism, socialism
. reporter: take us back to one year ago. o donnell: back to school. as kids in one of the country s largest school districts returned to the classroom today, there s a nationwide teacher shortage. cbs manuel bojorquez reports on how some schools are filling the void. we have over 150 vacancies, even today. but we are working to cover every class. o donnell: and a big-league dream comes true. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening and good to see you. tonight as we come on the air, the justice department is asking a judge not to release the affidavit that contains key details about why the f.b.i. searched former president trump s florida mansion last week. the d.o.j. says releasing that document would be detrimental to the integrity of the investigation. this comes as members of congress from both parties today ae demanding more details and are asking the director of national in
one year ago. o donnell: back to school. as kids in one of the country s largest school districts returned to the classroom today, there s a nationwide teacher shortage. cbs manuel bojorquez reports on how some schools are filling the void. we have over 150 vacancies, even today. but we are working to cover every class. o donnell: and a big-league dream comes true. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening and good to see you. tonight as we come on the air, the justice department is asking a judge not to release the affidavit that contains key details about why the f.b.i. searched former president trump s florida mansion last week. the d.o.j. says releasing that document would be detrimental to the integrity of the investigation. this comes as members of congress from both parties today ae demanding more details and are asking the director of national intelligence for a damage asses