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It doesnt solve the structural problem, if you go back to the 90s, you saw that. workers had a lot of bargaining power in that clinton boom, right? we saw wages go up in that time frame, but as soon as the economy went up, it got weaker, there was no structural property. >> were seeing the unions organizing around the issues. they have been very successful, painting the pictures about look, mcdonalds is receiving over a billion in subsidies because the workers dont get paid enough to be on publi...

Employment. it doesnt solve the structural problem, if you go back to the 90s, you saw that. workers had a lot of bargaining power in that clinton boom, right? we saw wages go up in that time frame, but as soon as the economy went up, it got weaker, there was no structural property. >> were seeing the unions organizing around the issues. they have been very successful, painting the pictures about look, mcdonalds is receiving over a billion in subsidies because the workers dont get paid enough to...

Because it never worked. and now they think they can do this for the entire population? youre right. we want names. but at the top of that name is barack obama. president obama. he is at the top of the food chain. >> all right. here is another one of your tweets. 700 irs contract workers owe 5.4 million in back taxes. why -- they should be working off their taxes we shouldnt be paying them if they owe that much money let them work off 00 taxes they owe before we start paying them. >> for two ter...

Caucus is two years away. >> this is true. 700 irs contract workers owe close to $5.5 million in back taxes. based on a new report. half of them arent supposed to be eligible to work because they arent on a tax payment plan. they say they should treat noncompliance for contract irs workers the same it does for its own employees. >> people dont know why a seventh grader killed a teacher and wounded two other students at his middle school. the 12-year-old shooter also took his own life. students...

Laura, good evening. there is no doubt that the obama administration for the last few years is encouraging government workers to be highly sensitive and highly attuned to things to go on in the workplace that might ultimately be a threat to national security. there is no doubt that they are putting incensives in place. the real fact of the matter is, laura, is that the administration has had a problem. i mean, you have bradley manning, you have snowden, you have others before him. you have 5 mil...

When spoke to the president, she also made the request to fema. everything thats been requested by the state of oklahoma to the federal authority, to the president and to fema, every request has been granted and were receiving federal assistant at this time. >> so how does it work now, just so wed like to get a sense, i would, of how it works. you call washington, you call craig fugate, head of fema. how does it work state to government, in these kind of catastrophes? >> yesterday, shortly after...

You call washington, you call fu fwr gate. how does it work state to government, in these kind of catastrop catastrophes? >> yesterday, shortly after the tornado completed its devastation in moore, oklahoma, governor fallin called the regional, ashwood and went through a formal procedure of requesting federal assistance for the four counties affected from the tornadoes the day before and a tornado here in moore yesterday. that was the semantics of going through the process. that would allow us i...

Experts expectations for job growth last month in february and there is no one better than christine romans to explain the whos it and the whys it. >> youre right, there was day when you would never cheer 7.7 unemployment rate and here we are the lowest since december 2008. you know how i love my charts. would he have taken the whole employment report all of its tables, all of its chart, and boiled it into this info graphic. and this is what i can show you about where the jobs have been created....

Most of these employees who will be affected arent actually employed by the faa. theyre contracted to do this work, right? >> actually hires a third party, another party to hire and staff these towers. its a way of gets around some basically government hiring and union rules and saves the general public money in general by putting contract workers in these towers. as safe as an faa tower. >> miles obrien, thanks for breaking it down. appreciate it. >> youre welcome. >> first, yahoo! now, best bu...

The countrys official news agency says a one-day meeting it was held in tehran to try it get syrias government and opposition leaders on the same page. but it is not clear that any major rebel or exile group attended the meeting. most of the opposition does not trust iran because its a key ally of syrias president. many think the conferences reaction to the formation of an opposition group coalition to oust bashar al saud. >> eric: the ceo of black elk energy, which owns an oil rig, has identifi...