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Concerned, those were robert gibbs's words about persistent long term employment. let's look at the numbers. the unemployment rate for those who have been unemployed longer than six months, 27 years or more. overall rate is 44.1%, those on unemployment, nearly half have been there more than six months. the average der racing -- duration is 31.2 weeks. they're working on that with tax credits and other things. the minority leader john boehner says this is unacceptable and not what the president promised when the stimulus was passed. >> where are we seeing the new jobs? >> couple of sectors. one...

Severely distressed . >> to get numbers like we see now is a major, major turn around but we have to go farther to get the unemployment rate down and the president is firmly committed to that. >> reporter: among the biggest white house concerns, long term unemployment. a record 44.1% of jobless americans have been out of work for more than 6 months. the average lengths of joblessness is now, 31 weeks. >> blue-collar workers, salt of the earth mention, where the struggle is. >> reporter: where did the economy grow? 43,000 new jobs 3:5% of the private sector job gains, were concentrated in the l...

——in canada. the temperature records were being smashed, and the previous record was 44.1; celsius. now it is 19.6. that is now canada's highest ever temperature. moving into the us, it went from this to this. and further south in portland, the older record was beaten by another big margin. and none of this is normal. this is how one canadian climatologist put it. nature is telling us that this is not normal, too. on the pacific coast, it's estimated over a billion marine

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