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The official unemployment rate for everybody in the country stands at 9% right now. whites are actually faring better in the population as a whole, their unemployment rate is 8%. blacks, nearly double that, 15.7%. hispanics at 11.9%. asians at 6.9%. christine romans joins me again. blacks nearly double the unemployment rate of whites. tell me why that is and how it works as we start to recover. >> even in good times, even when you're creating 100,000, 200,000 300,000 new jobs every month, you have this disparity in this country. so it's something that social policy people and economists have a...

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Before the egypt story developed jobs was the story everyone was focused on in the united states trying to see what the rate of job creation would be, whether the recovery would pick up steam. you can have confidence in them as a disappointment. the administration cease only 36,000 jobs created. yes, unemployment went down as the a result of a household survey. there is a divergence sometimes between the household survey and the survey of employers. the administration really is looking for a pace of jobs being created about ten times the rate we saw in the report to try to bring the unemployme...

Encourage irresponsible spending by the state. rove notes talking about bankruptcy makes it harder for states to borrow money because lenders fear they'll never get paid back. shannon? >> shannon: jim, thank you very much. congressman paul ryan will deliver the republican response to "state of the union" address. he is chairman of the house budget committee and he will speak from the committee hearing room. the government says labor unions dropped their workforce to 11.9% down from 12.4% in 2009. union membership fell to a low not seen since 1930s. stocks end the week mixed. dow gained 49. s...

Our housing value in the past year has been 18%. 1920, hello. our gnp fell 24% in one year. 1920 to 1921. our unemployment rate back then was 11.9. higher than it is now. far worse than today. in 2009, real gdp only decreased 2.4. got it? 2.4. hello. in some cases 1920 was worse than the great depression in the 1930s. what happened? harding, because americans learned their lesson, progressive, that was a nightmare. they cut spending in half. spending in half. by 1923, they cut taxes.