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And their families. but unhappiest of all are affected general motors stuff ive been here for years ive been through closure in scarborough ive been through a closure in london i moved my family choice for this company and they do this to me stir. the five g.m. plants will halt production next year laying off three thousand three hundred production workers in the u.s. and about three thousand in canada the company also plans to trim its white calista off by eight thousand. well lets bring in our...

The president fired james comey last week. a tornado striking a mobile home park in wisconsin, killing one person. more than two dozen people are injured, first responders claimed they could hear the voices of people trapped in the rubble, and they are still searching for survivors right now. layoffs coming to ford motor company, the automaker slashing 10% of its salaried jobs, they hope some of those cuts will come through early retirement. production workers are not affected. im jackie ibanez,...

Of the gains of a stronger labor market. if you look at production workers, this last month, they havent had a better month than this last month since 2006. so, you know, thats good news, and were going to be keeping our eye on that going forward as well as looking at what we can do to make those wage trends better. >> yeah, and you know, when we break down the numbers, i mean, 3.5% for asians is extraordinary. but lets talk about the african-american unemployment is at 9.2%, the hispanic unempl...

And return those gifts at a same low flat rate. welcome back everyone to "weekends with alex witt." its time for headlines at the half. new details about the car crashing that killed actor paul walker. a report from the l.a. coroner finds the car he was riding in was going more than 100 miles per hour when it spun out of control. it hit a tree and burst into flames. the report confirms neither walker nor the driver had alcohol or drugs in their systems. new numbers from the cdc show the flu is...

From wages and salaries and essentially are what we would call either production workers or nonproduction workers. its a big part of the labor force obviously. there is a significant part of the society which directly or indirectly get their incomes from the value of assets. >> right. >> and look at the data, the value of assets have been going up like that. the value of wait a minutes and salaries has not. >> does government have to step in here and fix this? is this going to be -- when i say g...

Administrations policies. >> krchristian, shouldnt we be celebrating it instead of bashing it? >> i want incomes to grow for everybody, but i want to make sure people who contribute to incomes growing get a chance to share in it. we have this culture where if a company does well, the ceo and the senior managers make all the money, but the production workers dont see their incomes rise at all. theres something patently unfair about that. >> gary, whats wrong with income inequality anyway? >> exac...

Openings for recreation aides this summer. the irs office secretary in midland and the u.s. mint wanted 24 people to help press coins and the agriculture department says it needs three insect production workers in phoenix there are no openings for customs that we saw but on that note, shep, the department of homeland security eliminated overtime last weekend. leading they say to longer customs lines at some major airports although antidotal reporting suggests the waits were just average. shep? >...

the dow is up 217 points, the reason, the jobs numbers for july was better than anyone was looking for. the total number, 163,000 jobs created last month. as you can see, the prediction was 100,000. we need about 125,000 jobs created per month, just to keep up with population growth. so this report does that. but look at the rest of the year. i mean, we havent been able to clear that hurdle since march. its been a really grim stretch. so there was a little bit of relief today. the bott...

erin burnett. and the market looking for the slightest bit of good news, and got a little bit today and surged. the dow is up 213 point, the reason, the jobs numbers for july was better than anyone was looking for. the total number, 163,000 jobs created last month. the prediction was 100,000. we need about 125,000 jobs created per month, just to keep up with population growth. so this report does that. but look at the rest of the year. i mean, we havent been able to clear that hurdle s...

erin burnett. and the market looking for the slightest bit of good news, and got a little bit today and surged. the dow is up 213 point, the reason, the jobs numbers for july was better than anyone was looking for. the total number, 163,000 jobs created last month. the prediction was 100,000. we need about 125,000 jobs created per month, just to keep up with population growth. so this report does that. but look at the rest of the year. i mean, we havent been able to clear that hurdle s...