Dydi in august, 1. 7 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force. These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted to and were available to work but had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. A few of the numbers beyond the topline numbers. We want to talk about job prospects in your part of the country. Underemployed, if you are unemployed and if you stopped looking. Prospects,t and job a subject that came up in the president s weekly address and the republican weekly address. We will start with Bradley Byrne of alabama. He was traveling around his district for the last couple of , talking about how government could help local efforts when it comes to unemployment and poverty. He was in theodore, ala woulu gave weekl publ addres we [vidp]om dist, talkth t trapin proy. 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Caller i found i could do a lot stock by just buying some and just using the stock market because, for one thing, theres too many illegals in the country. Saying 11 million, but theyve been saying that for 15 years, 20 years now. I think its more like 40 million. Whatever, if everybody wants to just let south america takeover if hillary is elected, the minute they hear hillary is elected, they will be coming by the millions up here. Did your job search get impacted by illegal immigration to this country . What kind of jobs were you in . Caller the restaurant business. Host how was it impacted by illegal immigration . Caller almost everything is affected by it. Talk to the economists, they will tell you. Host thats eddie in lawrenceville, georgia. Charles is up next in goshen, tennessee. On the line for those that consider themselves underemployed. What you consider yourself underemployed . Im a substitute schoolteacher and i know where the 40 Million People that are unemployed are. They are retired and spending money. Largest the third source of gdp in the world after the u. S. And china. They dont want to work because they are retired and they are spending their own money. You are talking about the Labor Force Participation rate. If you could do more work, would you want to be a fulltime teacher . Caller 88 of the prime age people, male primates people from 2535 are currently le prime agemai people from 2535 are currently employed. I am 70 years old. I choose to be a substitute schoolteacher. I live in a Retirement Community and i am retired and happy. And i do not want to be employed fulltime because i am part of the 40 million who were spending money, not looking to make money. Do you think you would want to be a substitute teacher for . Caller i do substitute schoolteaching when they need me. Its not a requirement. , if yound of a hobby want to put it that way. Host we have a line for those who consider themselves underemployed. We want to hear why you consider yourself underemployed, what you would like to do and what your job prospects are. Tim is on that line as well in washington. Good morning. Caller good morning. I would prefer to be retired, but its not financially feasible at this time. I just wanted to bring up that for me, my primary problem here i know this is the case for many people in this country. Andthing of stagflation that term with being stagnant wages combined with inflation. That is getting to me. The incremental changes that come about such as property taxes, for instance, really, really add up. There is no end in sight for that. Host can you talk about your wages for the last couple of years . Do you mind talking about it . Caller i began my employment march 21 of 2012 and i have not had a raise since i began employment. If you start doing the math on that come is a problem. On that, it is a problem. Host would you need more training or is it a matter of jobs not being out there for you . Caller its a combination. At 63 years old, i would like to look for another job. I dont like to use it as an excuse, but its very difficult job market, the competitive aspect of it. I have been doing some looking, but theres not a whole lot out there. Im just going to try to hang in there as best i can. When you say the competitive nature, is in job training, skills that people have these days that you are competing against, that the younger workers are competing against . Caller both. I had the opportunity for some training. Not as much as i would like. Its the younger, better trained people. Its understandable from an employers viewpoint. Host you bring up stagnant wages. Heres some more numbers from that august jobs report. Earnings rose by three cents. We have lines for those who consider themselves underemployed, a line for those who are unemployed and looking and the line for those who have stopped looking. We are simply asking, how is the job search going in your part of the country in light of this new job support . David is on that line for those who consider themselves underemployed. Also from washington. Good morning. Go ahead. Is hard to find parttime work if you are retired. If you cant find a job here in seattle, you dont want to work. Most job start at 11 an hour. If you have Technical Training, you will make more, of course. The problem here is finding a place to live. The housing prices are up the hype. Up pretty high. Theres jobs every place. When you are talking about parttime work you are doing, what sort of industry are their jobs are you to do that in for you to do that in . Is it something that requires more Technical Training . Caller my computer skills are down. I need some training on the computer skills. I need to get my computer skills up. Need extra Technical Training. Host have you ever look into any federal or state program ort helps with that training is that something you would have to pay for outofpocket . Caller im sort of fortunate that i have a good retirement im not desperate or anything, but i do need more Technical Training. There is definitely work in this area. Its all over here, everywhere. Coming up that august jobs report that showed the Unemployment RateHolding Steady at 4. 9 . The Donald Trump Campaign sent out a statement on friday. The august jobs report shows the troubling longterm trend the clintonobama economy failed to. Roduce better paying jobs as we said, federal officials focusing on labor day and jobs in their weekly messages. Here is the president s weekly message. [video clip] we arent obama i know in the heat of a more raucous political season than usual, but we cannot get so distracted by the latest bluster that we lose sight of the policies that will actually help working families get ahead. What has caused the frustration roiling in our politics right now. Feelany working folk still left behind by an economy that is costly changing. We have to make some c choices. Do we want a future where inequality rises as Union Membership keeps falling or one where wages are rising for everybody and workers have a say in their prospects . Are we a people who just talk about family values while remaining the only developed nation that does not offer its workers paid Maternity Leave . Or are we a people that actually value families and make paid leave a priority for working parents . If we are going to restore the sense that hard work is rewarded with a fair shot to get ahead, we are going to have to follow the lead of all those who came before us. Just fornding up not ourselves, but for the father clocking into the plant, the sales clerk working long and unpredictable hours or a mother riding the bus to work across town even on labor day. It means exercising our rights to join a union and above all to vote. Underemployed, 2027488000. If you are unemployed and looking, 2027488001. If you have stopped looking for a job, 2027488002. Peter is on that line for those who have stopped looking. He is in portland, oregon. Tell us your story. I was electronics salesman for many years. Management in the sales of electronics and suddenly, all the Commission Sales dried up and you cannot make any money from electronics anymore. Circuit city bailing out, losing 30,000 people. You start looking for other good Commission Sales jobs and they just kind of all dried up. Host did you go to college to get a degree for the job that you worked in . Caller even though i have a bachelor degree, that is not the degree that i got. Although i could go into management in other companies. This is my specialty. Hardshipretty strong trying to get a different kind of job in management. Host what degree did you get . Caller Law Enforcement with a minor in psychology am a but after working electronics for a couple years, i decided i was making more money than the policeman getting shot at. Is it something you could go back to and use now . Caller perhaps. I have considered, especially with whats going on now, trying to go back and getting some be a Border Patrol guard. When you hear one of our callers from earlier say if you are a young person and you dont have a job, its because you are not trying to look for a job, do you agree with that statement . Caller i think that would be true for younger people. Once youve reached my age, i am now 51, there is a point where you maybe dont have that gumption, that get up and go to make something happen. When youre younger, you still have a lot of options. Degreesen it comes to and Unemployment Rates associated with which degrees people get in college, here is a story from the Washington Post over the weekend, talking about the value of a humanities degree. In 2011 and 2012 when the economy was in the early stages of recovery, the unemployment was 8. 4 , not all that undereyment is overstated when it comes to humanities majors. That is from stephen pearlstein. He is a business and economics writer. It was in sundays edition of the Washington Post. On that line for those who stopped looking from pennsylvania. Morning. Who believes the narrative that the u. S. Government should confront in real estate oceanfront in arizona, it is ridiculous when you hit over 50, there are computerized systems that are articulated for one specific purpose, to field Employment Opportunities for individuals. One of the first fields they utilize is based upon your age. That is not touching the direct employment introy america and which has become the National Agenda and has amounted to our nation becoming a third world status host when did you. Host when did you stop looking for a job . Caller i applied for any number of jobs it did not matter what the job is. The Computer System evaluates my age and looks in my age and says you are unemployable. Thats the way the system is now created in the u. S. Its just the statistics themselves. Neededin this country two or three jobs just to survive while the chinese are buying two or three homes, middle class. Selling lies on this show, you are selling the seat on the show when you are selling never dips narratives from the government which deceived the american people. Host we want to hear your stories and other peoples stories this morning were just talking about the jobs numbers out. Came u some news out of china from the g20 summit that is happening out in china from the ap, president obama and Vladimir Putin on agreed to keep looking for a path to provide humanitarian relief to thousands of syrian citizens. John kerry and Sergei Lavrov have four weeks been trying to weeksr a deal have for been trying to broker a deal. We will look for continued reports on that. We want to keep hearing your stories. Paul in orlando, florida on the line for those were underemployed. Good morning. Why are you underemployed . Caller yes, i am underemployed. Thank you for cspan. Of mywas echoing some sentiments. I have a College Degree that i cut 30 years ago. That ik to school got 30 years ago. I went back to school in 2009 and got an associates degree. Im a paralegal, i make 20 an hour. The attorney im working for is now semiretired. Im lucky to get in 10 hours a week. Go to the Bar Association luncheon, the paralegal section, membership meetings for networking purposes my mom the internet for hours a for networking purposes, im on the internet for hours a day. I dont think people inside the beltway belief that 4. 9 unemployment is a legitimate figure. Its the workforce participation rate. I know this is not politically , but sort ofy echoing peters sentiment, a basicallyworkforce is code for old white guys need not apply. Is a chart from Business Insider showing the Labor Force Participation rate from 19752015. See how it around the 19992001 timeline. Around the 19992001 timeline. Do you have any student that . Caller i have no student debts. I own a home in one of the downtown orlando neighborhoods. My mortgage is extremely manageable. High heres went crazy in florida come i never used my house like an atm machine. My car is paid off, very little credit card debt. Along, but iimp was expressing my frustrations to one of my professors who is an attorney and she told me, paul, you are the wrong section, you are the wrong age. Im making 20 an hour. Some of these attorneys want to a 20 something for 13 an hour. I would take a job for 13 an hour. What a sad commentary on the obama economy is that . Host tom is up next in rockland, maine. I stopped looking. When did you stop looking and why . Caller three or four years ago. I worked at a company appear that made snowplows. I was making good money and one day, my knee went and i had to have my knee replaced. I was making 19 and hour. All of a sudden, they decided to let me go. They keep talking about bringing these jobs back to america. 50 into walmart now years ago, i started working in the shoe factory in massachusetts and the shoes all went to korea and taiwan and all that. You expect people to bring the and businesses back here you can go into walmart and walk in the front door and theres leather shoes and everything for four or five dollars a pair . America, howack to much do you think it will cost to make a pair of shoes . Textiles likento my father my grandparents came from poland and they worked at the mills in massachusetts and may textiles and shoes. Today and theuter next day, it is already outdated and you throw it out. The jobs that can be done in america and can be done in a way that it can be Competitive Price wise when it comes to trying to sell products or whatever that job may be . Caller there are none. The computer industry is disposable. The only thing that will be in this country is health care for us older people. They will have nurses and doctors and everything to take care of us. Then they complain about Illegal Immigrants there are no children in this country. Americanborn children. My mother and father had eight kids and they went through hell because we had too many kids. Past since 1960 or so, everyone decided to have one child. Support the Social Security system if youre a mother and father and you have only one kid who was supposed to kick into the Social Security , so you have to bring in Illegal Immigrants. Talking about sectors thats all job growth and job loss in august. Three sectors thats all losses, the logging and Mining Industry losses. Saw and warehousing software in thousand jobs gained in august. Health care and social assistance saw 36,000 jobs gained in august. See newstry that could job gains in the coming years is the drone industry. Over the weekend, news about new regulations finally being set for the drone industry. Set ofek, an important federal drone rules finally took effect across the country, making it possible for firms to start using drones in a limited manner. If you want to read more on those drone rules, that story is g with Washington Post. Mark is on the line for underemployed. Good morning. Caller im really unemployed. Government is spending too much overseas money. We will give money to countries to rebuild their churches, give money away for them to redo ,heir infrastructure and stuff trying to buy their friendship instead of putting it into work to america. Roads in some of our oklahoma are in bad shape and things. Host you are looking for a big Infrastructure Spending package here in the u. S. . You think that would help boost the jobs . Caller yes. There is aging bridges you hear about all the time and roads, the railroad lines. You could have more transportation to cut down on , expansionike rail of amtrak to places and stuff. You think the stimulus spending that came during the economic downturn that president , do yous pushing for think that helped . Onp create jobs and focus the issues you are talking about . Caller i think it does help. The cities that have done it have made it towards help with jobs. For we have the ambassadors for i dontting remember how many millions of dollars to give to russia to ,uild their churches and stuff that is money that could be here employing people, let