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Got to support their families, if we don't provide unemployment insurance they can't support their families. >> here are the numbers, last recorded at 7%, in november, that does not count the millions in the unemployment -- in a position of being unemploids -- you factor in the americans who are working less than they would like to, underemployed. you're looking at an underemployment rate of 13.2%. chris styerwaltz, the president took some ribbing online today for saying that unemployment benefits create jobs, i think what he meant was, the administration gets people spending. it puts money in...

Unemployment check, every time they get it, these are people who have been out of work for a very long time, wolf. that money goes right into the economy. it goes to the grocery store, fill up the car, pay the home heating oil bill. as dana pointed out, it goes right into the economy. economists say it is money that adds into the economy. what republicans say, yeah, that's fine, except you have to pay for it somewhere else. you have to take away some other wasteful program somewhere else. the long-term crisis is what the president is so concerned about. the veneer term, people unemployed for a...

13.2%. it's coming down. still too high. this is the percentage of the american work force that is out of work or work part-time and wants to be working full-time. over the past year, you've got the best job creation since 2005. and unemployment rate the lowest since november 200. that is improvement. and this months we saw broad based job gains. a lot of jobs in manufacturing, warehouse and transportation. there are reasons to be upbeat about this number. it's got to continue and spread. >> so danny, i'll pose this question for you. as christine said, the number of jobs grew over the past fou...

For black friday looking for all those great deals. the analysts say shoppers spent nearly $10 billion yesterday. that's a 13.2% drop, though, from last year. but stores opened earlier than ever this year. some on thanksgiving day itself. those few extra hours put retail sales up just over 2% combined. many shoppers trying to avoid the lines and some took to the web. really awesome out there. on-line sales jumped nearly 20%. art, you were involved in all of this. >> no, i didn't take part in the black friday. >> oh, really? >> yeah. did you go out? >> yeah. no, i shopped ahead of time. presi...

I might do african-american studies but also political science for economics because that will get me a job. >> international finance and modern dance. >> so i think it is about fundamentally a decision about education and what's the role of college in the 21st century. is it about developing ourselves and capacity to be able to make a contribution in the world or careerist and professional and you get specific skills so that you can get a job. not a career. a job. because there's a difference between those two things that i think millenials are finding out now. are you going to get the skills...