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And they matter most to us. ready to plan for your future? well help you get there. tonight in our first question, our question comes from lets see, doubting tom, why are people writing obamas political obituary today? youre asking me and im going to give you my opinion. because thats the depth of their insight and they got nothing better to say. stick around, rapid response panel is next. >> thank you. im hampton peerson, a fed inspired rally on wall street, the dow gains almost 100 points an...

630,000 private sector jobs created. so far this year but the lions share of those back in march and april. so as you said, economy in neutral. job growth stuck across the board. >> all right. hampton peerson for us in capitol hill, thank you. the president of course talking about the jobs numbers today. >> at a signs company. that apparently is adding jobs. >> yes. in the gulf, took 109 days but at last the news everyones been waiting for. bps broken oil well is sealed for good. anne thompson...

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...

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