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in america officially is 14 million people. the situation is getting dire. but i want to give you a bigger perspective. its hard to live in the moment and make decisions. lets go back to the beginning of 2009. thats when president obama first took office. we were losing in excess of 700,000 jobs in the month that he first took office. through 2009, things looked to get substantially better. according to experts, the recession ended in 2009. 2010, boy, we were building in the beginning ...

and at 3:00, well talk to general russell honore. plus fredrickas interview with tiger woods. im alina cho. see you in one hour. "your money" starts right now. im ali velshi. no economic issue is more important to americans than jobs. here is the latest. we had a jobs report come out for the month of august, no new jobs were created in america in august. the unemployment rate, which was 9.1% before we got into this remains at 9.1%. stubbornly high. the number of unemployed people in ...

To sovereign to withhold necessary government? confrontational collective bargaining mod can not be applied in government. >> my gosh. the public from the private sector is different. take the teach your union where governor christie is doing battle and governor walker in wisconsin as well. mainly with the teachers. they know that the kids are going to show up in class no, matter how poor of a job they do. they know money comes from the taxpayers. they dont have competition. referral and private...

To sovereign to withhold necessary government? confrontational collective bargaining mod can not be applied in government. >> my gosh. the public from the private sector is different. take the teach your union where governor christie is doing battle and governor walker in wisconsin as well. mainly with the teachers. they know that the kids are going to show up in class no, matter how poor of a job they do. they know money comes from the taxpayers. they dont have competition. referral and private...

When you look at how teacher unions affect student performance overall, when they put the 17 different studies together, a professor who is now at the university of louisville conclud concluded, quote, the evidence suggests that unionism raises achievement modestly for most students in public schools. now look, this evidence is interesting. im not saying its overwhelming. and when they put the studies together, they said it had a modest positive affect. its not overwhelming but hey, it looks lik...

Jobs we need in this country when we are so sidetracked by issues like this? by the way the unions lost. they lost in the 111th congress. card check did not pass the congress. we just had an election. another repudiation of this unionism and card check. >> a first amendment for 215 years. this is not about a small business. this is a supermarket chain. megyn: christopher you make your points. >> the super market chain thats parts of a billion dollar business in this country. a billion dollar bus...

As the northern ireland protocol, a range of products, particularly food, need to be checked to ensure they are in line with eu rules. thats because northern ireland has an open land border with an eu state, the republic of ireland. the eu wants to prevent goods which dont match its standards from entering its single market. big supermarkets believe there needs to be a more flexible approach, or else consumers in this part of the uk will lose out. the effects in northern ireland are practical an...

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Rights violated by fees they are required to pay. chief legal correspondent looks at both sides tonight. >> im here today with my fellow plntiffs because our voices have been silenced by first unionism for decades. >> reporter: rebecca is a california teacher who fought all the way to the supreme court over tissue of being forced to support a union which she adamantly disagrees. california recognizes the right of a public employee to refuse to become a member of the union that represents her, bu...

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