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Environment. it is getting better and economist think it will pick up as the year progresses. >> you are talking about the real unemployment rate. they say the headline and unemployment rate doesn't represent the people looking for work. >> and the underemployed and those who are discouraged from looking for a job. and many say we are at 12.7 percent if you account for all of those people. what should we be doing right now to make the unemployment situation improving slightly. what can we do to make it better? >> first of all, we are right. that number is still devastating. that means huge num...

Back from that. >> pelosi was referring to the fact that 8.9 million private sector jobs have been created since 2010, countering the 8.8 million jobs lost during the recession. yet the real unemployment rate when you factor in people who have given up looking because they can't find a job is still a staggering 12.7%. >> there's a real sense among the american people things are not getting better and it looks like as long as we continue to stagnate here, democrats may be waiting for a life preserver that isn't coming before november. >> despite the president's victory lap over health care sign...

Miracle, one thing he can count on is a letter. or more specifically a postcard from his girlfriend. >> basically in maricopa county we're not allowed to get any sort of letters. it has to be a post card. most of my family does the smallest type but my girlfriend does it the smallest. i think that's a three-point font. this is eight or nine pages. >> how do you even read that? >> with eyes. i can actually read this fine from right here. so it's -- >> read me a sentence out of there. >> hey, dear, so i've been all sad for the past few days because i didn't get any mail. today i did. i got one l...

12.7%. these are people who are out of work and people who are working pardon time and would like to work full time. people have not been able to get back. that number is falling a bit and still too high. you look at the trend and you can see hiring picked up a little bit from december, but when you compare this month's report, january with the average for last year, on average we were creating 193,000 jobs a month. this year 113 thousand thousand jobs created and not enough to even absorb new entrants into the workforce. the bottom line is i think it shows you this. the long-term unemployed a...

One of the letters from 12/6 or 12/7 is still down at the post office because i didn't check my mail early enough. that was one line. that was one line. so -- >> not everyone at maricopa is as lucky in love as antonucci. joe watson's gambling-fueled robbery spree cost him his fiancee. >> the first date we ever went on i told her she was my dream girl. and she's still my dream girl. >> after surveillance footage of one of his robberies made the local news, watson's dream girl turned him in. >> she called the police. she told them that i just saw my fiance on television robbing a tanning salon. ...