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Colorado at boulder where, by the way "playboy" rated that the number one party school. not what i did when i was there. a side note. >> dont lie. >> not worth your time in journalism. some times it is true. snooki will get her own reality show. >> papers are closing. companies are laying off. north carolina degree. all right. good. >> still a good profession. >> yes, it is. yes, it is. this is very encouraging, all you gossips out there, a study from harvard university that suggests that gossip...

Manufacturing, construction, financial services, health care, retailing, leisure and hospitali hospitality. the only sector thats laying off, big sector thats laying off is state and local government because of their severe financial problems. the breadth of the job growth, for me, is the most encouraging aspect of the data were getting. >> yet if you ask people in our polling, as we do, eight in ten americans say they think the economy is in poor shape. how much does that, a lack of consumer co...

Laying off. the latest attempts by the post office to get back in the black after 8.50 losses last year. and at the pentagons hall of heroes, theyre marking their 150th anniversary. the nations highest award for military valor was signed into law in 1861 by president abraham lincoln. they drossicly cut their pension and health plans. the city of los angeles has reached a landmark deal with the citys large is union. sit i it is saving the city over $400 million. los angeles mayor joins us now a...

Dollars to supposedly create jobs. jonathan you have been saying this would happen. it looks like you are right. >> sure. weve seen this movie before. we saw it a few years ago with president bush in his whole big ethanol scam. you saw companies back then pacific ethanol, boom to bust. all the people they hired got fired. all the plans they built were shut. you saw this in japan spent 80 billion dollars in the last six years on green energy programs all those tax dollars burned up in flames. the...

Of those vacation days, besides saving yourself some grief, if you dont use them all up, why do you say use them all up? >> well, its so critical now more than ever. about 30% of americans in the past few days havent been using all of their vacation days. companies have been laying off. people are a little nervous about not have be a job when they return from vacation nap was critical. this year, a little different. company, lean. folks doing jobs once done by multiple people. now more than ever...

Activists and the activists held a ton of events around the state and even poured money into the campaign. well now, a democratic campaign tracker has caught buck on tape in comments which might leave him with some explaining to do with some of his die-hard supporters. take a listen. would you tell those [ bleep ] at the tea party to stop asking questions about birth certificate while im on the camera? what am i supposed to do? >> well, buck apologized yesterday saying he was quote venting to th...

Vehicles. >> neil: tell that to mississippi, though. i mean theyre in -- 2,000 folks who dont have jobs will get them. >> its good for mississippi but theyre laying off. its not all good news. workers are being laid off in california and unemployment is high. like it is in michigan. im not going to make make apologies for the union, i have straight teeth because of the uaw. wall street objects, they want to blame the workers and squeeze more out. toyotas going to pay workers less here and send p...

Until that number starts falling in a clear and definitive way, i dont think people are going to feel good about anything. >> the high unemployment number does have an impact on people who are unemployed, because it tends to depress wages. if there is 9.7% unemployment, you dont have to pay people that extra premium to get them to work. the other thing i think will be difficult and mean the unemployment numbers look bad for a while, even as there is more employment, nor jomore job created, and p...

The unemployment numbers look bad for a while is even as there is more employment, more jobs created, people who had decided to withdraw from the workforce and had stopped looking for jobs are going to go back and look. so the number that we talk about, that headline unemployment number, will keep on looking pretty scary for a while. >> so when you look at the entire scene, with the black cloud part of the scene, what worries you the most when you look at the economy overall? what is out there t...

In san francisco, the city is laying off 15,000 worker, most will have an option to be rehired to work a shorter week. mayor gavin newsoms plan is to reduce the budget deficit and shift the majority from a 40-hour week to 37 1/2 hours. it would cut their paychecks by more than 6%. plant is expected to save the city $100 million. a preschooler in boulder, colorado, wont be allowed back to his catholic school next year because his parents are lesbians. the denver archdiocese says their homosexua...