Thats the function of the president s unrelenting commitment and the first lady and dr. Biden and so many actors who have stepped to the plate. We have made so much progress because so many more veterans have gotten the opportunity to bring their skills and talent to the work place and countless more employers are benefiting from it. I like to think of us as match. Com at the department of labor. We match job seekers who want to punch their ticket to the middle class with businesses who want to grow their business. In the dataset recession, director, center for a job seekers are at least 1. 4 for every job opening. Thats good news for veterans. Thats good news for every job seeker. Every year our American Job Centers, where match. Com is an action, 2500 American Job Centers with about 14 million people, including roughly 1 million veterans in the services. We help Transition Service members and spouses prepare for civilian life through the Transition Assistance Program. Last fourth of
Good morning. Thank you all very much for joining us today. We are going to talk about a very serious and urgent situation confronting puerto rico, the home of 3. 5 million americans. The territorys economy as we read every day has been declining for a decade. It has accumulated huge debts that it cant possibly pay. Puerto rico owes 72 billion to investors, about 46 billion to Pension Funds. Started missing bond payments in january and is expected to default on nearly 2 billion payment due july 1st. That is roughly 100 of its Gross National product. Thousands of residents are leaving the island for the mainland every month to look for jobs and better public services. The exodus is accelerating. In this context, congress and the Obama Administration have come up with compromise. The bill would establish a financial control board to oversee the island government and help restructure its debt in federal court. Require the government and the board to adequately finance Pension Funds that a
This is about 15 minutes. [applause] dr. Carson thank you. Thank you. I feel like i am at a political rally. Want to congratulates the i want to congratulate the. My wife and i have a high esteem for dr. Ingle and this university. Gray happy to be part of it. Travelortunate enough to i am alwaysies and welcomed happy to give back to this country. Some people tend to take that for granted but i do not. That was so important that each one of you developed the tremendous talent that god has provided and are to help maintain as a free country that and it is going to be a fight, it is going to be a struggle. A lot of times people ask me was it really worth getting into the political arena and having people savage her reputation and family, tell lies and do all the things, was it really worth all that and the answer is no. Not if you are doing it for yourself. Othersare doing it for and answer is a resounding yes. Can is him to elevate other people. I had an opportunity over the last year or
U. S. Allies are learning the nsa has been spying on them. And the latest is staunch u. S. Ally and the german chancellor Angela Merkel. Her reaction she has dispatched her top spy chiefs to washington. This comes as an european delegation visits the u. S. Reporter the white house said it was unwilling to talk aboutocontraducts reports n german newspapers that not only did president obama know about the surveillance, he fast tracked any information gleaned from Angela Merkels surveillance to the white house. The president , i think in all he has said about this issue, not just sense the disclosures, but even before them reflects his commitment to insuring that we do everything we have to do within the law to keep america safe, to keep americans safe, and keep our allies safe, and that we do so in a way that reflects the need to find a balance, and to recognize the sincere securityrather privacy concerns that americans have and others have around the world. Reporter for the european del
A relatively larger scale. This was a grave crime. And those responsible must be brought to justice as soon as possible. Syrian opposition leaders say last month, Government Forces used poison gas to attack their neighborhoods in the suburbs of damascus. Hundreds of people were killed. They interviewed survivors and collected blood and urine samples and checked the soil for chemicals and reported that almost all samples tested positive for the nerve gas sarin and concluded that surface to surface rockets were used in the attack and they did not say which side used them but u. S. , british and french envoys say the report left no doubt that the government of the syrian president Bashar Alassad was responsible. U. S. And officials brokered a deal to avoid military strikes on syria. Syrian officials will be required to disclose their chemical weapons within a week and then eliminate them by the middle of next year. A japanese minister has spoken about fukushima to the International Atomic