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Months. retail was down 24,000. possibly because of seasonal factors but also, likely because consumers now have less take home pay to spend with payroll taxes rising this year. construction added 18,000 jobs, much less than the 50,000 it added in february. now, despite this weakness as you said the unemployment rate dropped down to 7.6%. but that was mainly because half a million people left the labor force in march. economists say this report means that the federal reserve will keep low intere...

Continue to afford to treat patients and stay in business. so what is this going to mean? well, patients are already being turned away. and some of them will then have to seek treatment at hospitals. and as we know that is much more expensive. one study, suzanne, shows it will cost about $6,500 more a year for a patient to be treated at a hospital instead of a clinic, suzanne. >> so what should these patients do? i mean it really sounds like this is a very difficult situation theyre in. >> well,...

This may even spread to cable hosts at some point. >> no, it wont. >> maybe radio show hosts. maybe that? washington show columnists? >> in public radio, you could be get much lower. >> so matt, lets start from the beginning. the sequester was a strategic misstep for the president. unemployment is still uncomfortably high. income and equality is widening and the president is still insisting that spending more money and raising taxes on millionaires is going to solve a lot of our fiscal problems....

Secretary hagel and his deputy announced theyll each give up a portion of their salary this year. theyll return a portion of their salary to the federal treasury because of all the pentagon workers having to take unpaid furlough days thanks to the sequester. that announcement came first, but after president obama said today hes going to do the same thing. quote, the president has decided that to share in the sacrifice being made by public servants across the federal government affected by the se...

Employees a job. the move is getting symbolic. its getting followers. a democrat senator is taking a pay cut and forcing furloughs of his own staff though hes not required to do so. claire mccaskill is going to do some of the same. some critics want all of congress to take a cut. if they were to do that, we ask how many furloughs does it save? >> standard pay for congress members is $174,000. if they cut their pay 20%. that would save 1300 employees from having to take a furlough, a small fracti...

Ahead of the speech today, secretary hagel and his deputy announced theyll each give up a portion of their salary this year. theyll return a portion of their salary to the federal treasury because of all the pentagon workers having to take unpaid furlough days thanks to the sequester. that announcement came first, but after president obama said today hes going to do the same thing. quote, the president has decided that to share in the sacrifice being made by public servants across the federal go...

Here, is that each successive austerity fight has had less and less attention. this is the americans paying close attention to washington fiscal deadlines. now sequestration was down to 25% and its kind of brain deadened all of us about whats actually happening. so if were six months from now and the cuts come out and accelerate, what are you looking at? what does it mean in human term for the kids and families you serve? >> it could mean a shorter day for our children. less staff. which could m...

What it looks like from where youre standing. what i think is so perverse here, is that each successive austerity fight has had less and less attention. this is the americans paying close attention to washington fiscal deadlines. now sequestration was down to 25% and its kind of brain deadened all of us about whats actually happening. so if were six months from now and the cuts come out and accelerate, what are you looking at? what does it mean in human term for the kids and families you serve? ...

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What i think is so perverse here, is that each successive austerity fight has had less and less attention. this is the americans paying close attention to washington fiscal deadlines. now sequestration was down to 25% and its kind of brain deadened all of us about whats actually happening. so if were six months from now and the cuts come out and accelerate, what are you looking at? what does it mean in human term for the kids and families you serve? >> it could mean a shorter day for our childre...