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Daughters have just lit up the beautiful christmas tree in washington, d.c. turning now to the activists organizing in foley square in lower manhattan. this is just across the street from the police department headquarters. they're marching in protest not to indict the police officer that killed eric garner in july. organizers today and tomorrow from michigan to pennsylvania. we'll keep an eye on these marches and bring you any more details as they develop. we're right back on "the ed show". >> i'm kate rogers with your cnbc market wrap. a seesaw session which ends down 12. the s&p sheds 2 and...

You don't need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. because we do. we're exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg... isn't as simple as just boiling an egg. life takes energy. energy lives here. cnbc's sara eisen. how are the latest jobless numbers? >> they look pretty good. fewer americans filed last week. 17,000 fewer for a total of 297,000. it's an important number because it's back below that 300,000.

Said i deserve some money. >> public service in illinois is corrupted obviouslyb"he had at chapel of his pay this is why your audience is impacted this mass transit district of $60 million of federal grants so talk sexpot blood dash taxpayers across the country are subsidizing the $300,000 pension salary. john: maybe he deserves it that at least we know about it to have the argument. >> right. there has been a policy change resulted from our transparency of salaries in illinois be highlighted school district treasurer his pay with from 163,000 of the 297,000 in one year than citizens asked que...

286,000 a year. he said i deserve some money. >> public service is being corrupted. volk has a triple in pay over the last ten years. this is why your national audience is impacted by it. this district in champaign got 250 million in federal grants. you are sub dieding this nearly 300,000 dollar pension salary in the sky. >> maybe he deserves it. he can argue it. at least now we know about it and we can have that argument. >> there has been a real change. pom see change. we highlighted the treasurer a year ago it went from 163,000 to 297,000 in one year. citizens started asking questions i am ...

Source. >> right, they're confirming -- we heard it at the state of the union and mr. obama said we've created those jobs over the last 23 months. let's say the 23 months and he's been president for 36 months or 37 months but independently, 2 1/2 million jobs created. $744 billion was spent, according to recovery.gov and that comes to almost $297,000 per job. almost $300,000 per job. >> some jobs cost over a million. >> some jobs cost over a million. how do you come up with the numbers? if you hire someone for six months, they finish that job and then you hire -- no, you rehire the same person...