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Time for a new routine.eartburn flare-ups? try nexium® 24hr. the latest choice for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection. this is a fox news alert for you. the labor department releasing job numbers. >> do we all have jobs? nicole petallides joins us about what we need to know. >> no so many americans looking for jobs. they came in at 291,000 claims. slightly better than the estimates of 293,000. the prior week was revised higher. it's showing that we have the labor market that is doing okay and continues to improve since our financial crisis.

Traffickers. and that was just the tip of the iceberg. joining me is malika salazar from rights for girls. she led the effort to shut down craigslist sex ads that serveda as the leading site that led children into sex trafficking. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> they received more than 9,000 reports of unique cases of human trafficking between 2008 and 2012. how big of a problem is this in the united states? >> so what's important to recognize is that this is -- this is a problem of american children. we know, according to the fbi, that there are 293,000 children, american children ...

Buying power. so on the right track, but not there yet. >> another thing that is missing from this report from the top eight of job increases, construction. that added only 6 thourgs j,000. >> construction as a sector has been pretty flat for the past three months when as you mentioned, the rest of the job market has picked up speed. this has a lot to do with recent hiccups in the housing market. the housing market which of course terribly bottomed out in the great recession has been climbing up consistently. but about a year, a little more than a year aer aar ago, mortga started to go up and ...

Suits from pandas. >> let's move on to the jobs numbers today. this is something that if she becomes president, she will inherit. today bob is going to tell us, good numbers. i think they were good numbers. 293,000 jobs created in the month of june. that's a good thing. but there is the fine print. an interesting little nugget. but bob, we all agreed that you should have a chance to -- >> gloat. >> -- gloat. go for it. >> i so rarely get that chance with the obama administration. but this is very good numbers, very strong. i know what the argument is going to be. all of these people were not l...

In 2011, the man who is leading those demonstrations, he runs the labor movement in america. richard trumka. he made $293,000 in the year 2011. >> brian: he's rich. >> he's way up there in the 1% arena. he's a rich guy. but he leads a movement which is declining in membership. they're not paying as much in dues to that union movement. and he's got to get out there and get more members in so that they can pay more dues to support his 1% salary. >> brian: and their fight was that after the 2008 collapse, the upper class and the rich, the white collar worker who caused the collapse didn't pay the...