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See on your screen there. this comes after another survey on the job market showed u.s. employers added just 179,000 jobs last month. the weakest showing in four months. despite that, some analysts say the u.s. is still on track to recover all the jobs lost in the recession, so we'll talk about the job market in just a moment, momentarily from now. when we take a look at the markets though, we're still posting some record gains. s&p 500 closed yesterday at another record high. and here's a look at the big board and what it's doing right now, also trading higher. but as lauren simonetti told us...

Claims for unemployment benefits at 304,000. now, everyone was expecting 315,000. so this 304,000 is considered pretty good. the four-week moving average fell to 312,000. the figure you want to pay attention to as well is the continuing claims. those are people who have filed for claims for more than a week. that's down to 2.74 million. that's the lowest it's been since december of 2007. so all in all, this is being considered a good report for the week. initial jobless claims coming in lower than have been expected. back to you. >> all right. thank you very much. after some rough days on wall...

Our own money. congress spends and saves our own money! taxpayers, not their own. >> exactly. brenda, to bring us back down to the family, heritage foundation came up with a great example. it's like your family, the way the government's run using current budget numbers, it's like you're a family that makes $52,000 a year, but instead you spend $64,000 a year, you put that $12,000 on credit. that makes sense. but you already have $312,000 existing debt out there! so it's just crazy. we're spending beyond our means, but we already have this pile out there, which is huge that we can't pay down! i...

Know, miles away andtive manhunt on and he stepped forward to basically pick up a vibe for republicans. that said, i don't think there's strategy on the part of the republican party conservative wing to link funding the government with defunding obamacare. i think it's a really bad strategy. gregg: yeah. you mention unemployment still incredibly high, 7.3%. and in the last month alone, 312,000 americans simply just dpaif up. they threw in the towel, said do you know what? i can't work. i can't get a job. and the labor participation rate is now at the lowest level since jimmy carter's years in ...

Care laws kicking in. what are the premiums going to mean to jobs? >> i think it's going to hurt the jobs. a lot of people said this number was good. 169,000 jobs added. unemployment rate went from 7.4% to 7.3% but 312,000 jobs were lost during this time. july numbers were revised down. this is the lowest labor force participation rate since august 1978, in the middle of jimmy carter's terms, which were not exactly good times. the biggest problem you have right now in this job market, most of jobs lost are between 16 and 24-year-olds. these kids are not going to be hired because you're seeing ...