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Two months behind on their payments. according to the department, half of the nearly 324,000 water and sewerage accounts are overdue. this week the city's struggling residents begin to fight back. they've been marching outside the water department's headquarters. they're claiming they are being unfairly targeted. >> why are we attacking poor people? why do we hate poor people in detroit? it has been demonstrated that the corporate customers are not receiving the same level of scrutiny and accountability. >> in its report on detroit's water war this week "the guardian" agreed calling it a, quot...

Direction. the number of government workers is up 324,000 in just one month. meanwhile in the private sector, the number of employed people down 278,000. >> you keep saying its he a impossible on get fired from a government job. >> as i say every week, you're more likely to die on the job than you are to be fired from the federal government. >> right. apparently it's easy to get hired, however. charles krauthammer sees this as a disturbing trend. >> this is what happens when you become a european-like country. europe has had exactly this kind of chronic unemployment for decades. and we haven't...

Troubles. check that out on our website rundown.msnbc.com. you're looking live here at the opening bell winging on wall street. the markets got a boost this morning when a new report showed weekly jobless claims dropping to the lowest level in almost five years. not bad. applications fell 18,000 to a total of 324,000. they signed fewer layoffs and potentially more hiring. we'll learn more about the state of the economy tomorrow when we get that infamous april jobs report. up next, president obama signed legislation ending faa furloughs. he called it a short-term band-aid. next, a deep dive...

County elections office with your i.d. to prove you're a registered voter so your provisional ballot can be counted. county election officials in arizona have just until this friday remaining provisional ballots, all 324,000 of them. by friday. and they're counting them now at a rate of 18,000 a day. you guys need to pick up the pace to meet the deadline, aren't you? come on, arizona, this is ridiculous. you need to fix this.

The close of business tomorrow, wednesday, to return to your county elections office with your i.d. to prove you're a registered vote so your provisional ballot can be counted. county elections officials have until friday, three days from now, to verify and count remaining provisional ballots, all 324,000 of them. by friday. and they're counting them now at a rate of 18,000 a day. you guys need to pick up the pace to meet the deadline, aren't you? come on, arizona, this is ridiculous. you need to fix this.