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[♪...] >> announcer: now get a $250 airfare credit, plus save up to 65%. call 1-800-sandals. certain restrictions apply. before the recession an unemployment rate of 8% or above would have sounded like a nightmare. today, still a bombshell but would you believe it is actually a good one? the official november jobs report shows a net gain of 120,000 jobs. private employers actually arded 140,000 jobs. government's cut 20,000. none of that was necessarily surprising but here is the surprise -- the jobless rate dropped .4 point to 8.6%. no doubt that's still too high but that's the lowest we have have seen since march of 2009. now another headline -- 72,000 more jobs were added in september and october than first thought. now here's another thought for you. all those newly hired people and everybody else who draws a paycheck face a possible tax hike january 1st. that is if congress and the president don't extend a cut in the payroll tax that's due to run out at year's end. they're still trying but rival plans both fell short in senate votes just last night. joining me, peter marici, professor of international business at the university of maryland. always good to talk to you. you give me a reason tore being optimistic today. >> well, certainly we are creating more jobs than we were during the summer around that's good news. however, we're not creating enough of those jobs. unemployment fell largely because people left the labor force. many more people left the labor force, quit looking, than found jobs. >> how significant was that number historically speaking, the number of people who left, who just gave up looking for jobs? >> very significant. a lot of them are women and i suspect those are two-income families where the second income is smaller, especially in my age group. where the job prospects are so poor for the lower income earning spouse they just decide it is not worth it. if the job market gets better, they come back and that means that the unemployment rate goes back up again. >> okay. that's the danger here. because this is -- give me a comment on this first. how important just psychologically is it for us to get below 9%? >> it's good news. we've got to get people feeling better. this will accomplish that. >> okay. but at the same time, people feeling better about the economy that means they might go back out and start looking for jobs. those same people that just left that job market might try to get back in it. >> now you know why most undergraduates consider economics maddening. you are absolutely correct. >> what about the segment where we saw the job growth? we aren't seeing it grow enough in the sectors we need it, are we? >> absolutely. the core private sector -- 140,000 jobs. but health services added a lot. social services. those are heavily subsidized by the government. a lot of temp jobs. core jobs were about 94,000. in order to bring unemployment down to, say, 6% in three years, we need at least three times, perhaps four times as many core jobs and that provides the revenues to pay the taxes. >> how will this help, this fight that's going on in washington, d.c. right now? how will it help our jobs outlook, the jobs picture, if congress does extend that payroll tax cut or, if they do not and we essentially see a tax increase january 1. >> we'll get the payroll tax cut extended. the question is how do we pay for it. unfortunately -- the process of paying for it means its impact will not be large. whether you do it by raising taxes or cutting spending. and also it is a temporary measure. we have to address the structural problems, the trade deficit with china, high energy prices, and so forth, that everyone agrees needs to be dealt with but neither the congress or the president can focus because they're always quarrelling with one another. >> well, that's just what they do, isn't it? still got some work to do before the end of the year. the president wants them tho stay through the holidays. we'll see how that works out. peter morici, enjoy your weekend. you know the saying -- the rich just keep getting richer. that might not be far from the truth. even on college campuses. we'll tell you how colleges are giving financial aid to the haves over the have nots. 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what we are talking about here is one pot of money and eventually some of the schools are putting more of that money into the pot for merit-based versus need-based. so why that shift? why go towards the marriage base? >> well, they're trying to increase their rankings on the "u.s. news & world report." so from their standpoint it makes sense, they're competing against one another, based on prestige but the system as a whole doesn't function well when we are focusing and showering aid on width who really don't need it. right now is the the most selective colleges, 74% of the students come from the richest socioeconomic quarter of the population, and just 3% from the most disadvantaged quarter. so in other words, you're 25 times as likely to run into a rich kid as a poor kid on these selective campuses. so something's out of whack here. we really need to be focusing our aid on the kids, low-income students who are also talented, and really need that aid. >> is this the number distorted at all, given the economic times we are in, even $150,000, $180,000 might sound like a lot of money and that certainly is to somebody whose family is making $30,000, $40,000. but is it possible given those incomes with $100,000-plus can be put into the category of struggling as well? is that fair at all? >> well, on one level i think that is fair. i mean college tuition has been skyrocketing and so everyone needs a little bit of help. but the point here is that the evidence from a number of studies finds that the degree of unmet needs -- that is the need beyond grants and loans and everything else that's provided -- is greatest still for the lowest income students and we're missing out on the talented low-income students who have a lot to offer this country and are now being effectively shut out particularly from selective colleges. >> richard, i think a lot of people absolutely agree with that. we'd love for it to shift back. we'd love for college education to be a lot cheaper these days as well. thank you so much for your time on this. an important story that might not be getting enough attention. thank you so much. enjoy the rest of your weekend. >> you, too. thanks. well coming up next -- a story that is probably just going to flat-out outrage you. a school accused of discriminating against a young boy. not because of skin color or because of his faith. it is because he has hiv. is this legal? 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attorneys for a 13-year-old pennsylvania boy say he has been denied admission to a private boarding school. why? because he has hiv. the boy's family is suing milton hershey school for allegedly violating antidiscrimination laws that protect the rights of people with hiv. the boy is an eighth-grader in a delaware county public school. milton hershey school says its decision was made to protect the health of its students. >> we have to balance our desire to serve this individual with our obligation to protect the health and safety of the 1,850 students already in our care. >> here's part of what the centers for disease control and prevention says about hiv. hiv is not transmitted by casual contract such as shaking hands or a casual kiss. infection is not possible from a toilet seat or a doorknob or from dinking fountains. attorney rhonda goldfein is representing the gold family, executive director of of the aids project of pennsylvania. thank you for being here. does the back-and-forth continue between the boy's family, you as well, and the school so there could possibly be a resolution to this? is there any update on that front? >> we haven't heard from the school that they've changed their position. our goal all along has been to get our student into an appropriate academic setting. we hope that hershey would understand their position is not supported by the law or the science. >> so what was your reaction, what was the boy's reaction, the family's reaction initially, when he was told he was not going to be admitted to this school for one reason and one reason alone? >> we heard the response kind of in tears. in august we learned -- excuse me, in june we learned that they weren't admitting him because of his documented need and we suspected they were referring to his hiv status because, otherwise, he's completely qualified for the school. he's got a good academic record, he participates in after-school activities. the only thing in his medical records is he does have a virus. he does have hiv. so we suspected that was the reason. but it wasn't until earlier this week that they confirmed that they excluded him because he has hiv and, worse, because they think that this little boy, this 13-year-old boy, is somehow a risk to the 1,800 students at that school. it was a pretty stunning response on their part. >> also, the school is now saying that they were working, they wanted a federal review of it and wanted to get some kind of a judgment and resolution to the case but they said the boy's -- the people on behalf of the young man decided to file a lawsuit instead and that was really setting up an edadversarl relationship now between the two sides. would you agree with that? was it possible to talk through and work this out before going into a courtroom? >> well, we attempted since august to work this out and really hadn't gotten anywhere with the folks at hershey. the idea that they were going to seek an advisory opinion from a federal court is a bit unusual. i'm not really aware of federal courts issuing advisory opinions. we clearly -- sorry. >> please continue. i'm sorry. >> and we decided that once we were more than one-third of the way into the academic year that we had no choice but to file a lawsuit and finally get this matter on the table. >> ma'am, i'm not sure if this has been public knowledge or if you can tell us, but how did the young man who's 13 years old come to contract hiv? >> you know, much like ryan white, the student who was denied a seat in a class 26 years ago. we'd like to stay focused on the idea that hiv is not something to be afraid of and not really go into those particulars. >> understood. and again, the school says at least -- you can understand why this is different from the ryan white case -- in that he was going to school for the day and he would go home to his parents and go home at night. they say at least the school that this is different because this boarding school would put kids around that age, 13 years old, in close quarters together. they would be living together. 10 to 12 in a home. as i read their statements they say we are serving children and no child can be assumed to always make responsible decisions that protect the well being of others. is there any threat or risk there that you're putting other children in some kind -- i mean it might not be that possible, but there is a slim chance that given kids in these tight quarters, things db something flukey could happen. >> no. i think that that argument is just a red herring. let's think about it. the courts have been clear that there's no reason why children with hiv can't be in congregate settings. they can go to school, they can go to day camp. what about this setting from 8:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. that creates this great risk that's not in a day school? we shouldn't think these folks are in a submarine. they're in a school and they're in a school where there should be house parents who are supervising their activities. even if -- even if they thought that our student presented some degree of risk, they didn't do any analysis. they didn't look into it. they didn't consider him. they just decided that that diagnosis was too risky for them. >> he still want to go to school there? >> sure, he does. he wants a good education and the hershey school boasts academic excellence. we hope that they'll understand that he can be a good student. >> ronda goldfein, we really do appreciate your time. this is really a story that shocked and outraged a lot of people and certainly unfortunate for the young man and maybe still a lot of education and work needs to be done in this country when it comes to hiv and aids. thank you for your time. we'll follow up with you. okay? >> thank you for your interest. >> yes, ma'am. getting close to the bottom of the hour now. we'll turn to some politics in a moment. first talking ne