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Now, the issue of jobs still taking center stage in washington and really all around this country. today we learned 434,000 americans filed for unemployment in the latest week, and that's down from the previous week, but the number is still very high. in fact, for more than a month we've seen more than 400,000 of our fellow friends and family file for benefits every week, and that's important because that numbereeds to be much lower to reflect any sort of sustainable job growth. and, of course, we know that is a major focus. unemployment is a problem that has certainly bedeviled this president...

434,000 for the last couple months. what is more, the headline unemployment rate that you are referring to measures people who applied for a job in the last four weeks. that's misleading time to spend when you have 6 million people who have been out of work for six months or longer. if you measure it with u-6 rather than u-3, measure it by people applied by a job within the last six months who don't have work, you look at an unemployment rate with 15.7% and if you add to that the 2.3 million discouraged workers who have just given up, then you look at a real unemployment rate of close to doubl...

Holiday, the policemen have to get paid double. that's driving up the expense. >> prince charles and lady di, theirs cost $40 million. >> that was a lot at the time. this is certainly going to be more. there's consideration to keep it somewhat modest. as you said, who is paying for what? the wedding dress itself, which we still don't know -- >> who is designing it. we are waiting on that. >> will it have the 10,000 pearls princess di's had. they are saying $64,000 to $434,000. >> for a wedding dress? >> will it have crystals? who will it be designed by? we don't know. >> let's get think the ot...

I'll read again. the united states is in a mortgage mess. can't get out of. we've been talking about that all week. last month, sales of homes fell 27%. this comes on the heels of a report the obama administration's home affordable modification program is not working! the president announced the program 18 months ago with the hope it would curb foreclosures but the plan is having very little impact. >> joining us now is fox news legal analyst bob massy. good morning. >> good morning. how are you guys doing? >> we're doing well. the administration initially had hoped to help three to four milli...

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