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Disparities between corporate ceo and their employees. what are we learning about? >> so dodd frank made it require that 50 of the biggest companies had to say here's the median employee pay and here's how it compares to the ceo. humana, big insurer. median pay about what it is across the country. $57,400. the ceo make 19 million. that's 344 times what the median employee makes. another example here. they're really unstruckive. median ploy year makes $19,000. that's because most of them are there brazil. the ceo makes $7 million. 356 times higher. the biggest disparity at marathon petroleum. t...

57,400. very close to the 59,000 that's the median income for workers across the u.s. the ceo making 19.8 million. that's 344 times. that's a big number, my friends. brian: is that unique. >> gosh, no. it's not even the highest. i will get to that whirlpool the median employee there not making $20,000? most of their workers are in brazil. they are offshore and in an economy where pay is low. but that ceo making only 7 million is 356 times higher. let's look at the big kahuna, marathon petroleum. i want to give you this example. the median employee making 21,000 in the u.s.a. the ceo making 19....

Above is generally good so the trump criticism is generally off. unemployment rate. and some context around that. it's october of 2016. we always get the unemployment number from the month before. it's 4.9%. october in 2009, it was 10% and october of 2008, just as the recession was getting under way, it was 6.5%. still, i don't put a lot of stock in the unemployment percentage number. what you want to really think more about is jobs that are created. why does any of this matter? if more jobs are created, you can get a better wage. in 2008, the median wage for an american household was 57,400. ...

Now and october 2009 and the worst of it was 10% and october 2008. before we were sort of in a recession but didn't really know it at 6.5%. if you like this sort of number, i'm not that big on it. >> this is not all good news. this is forgetting all of those disenfranchised who look at it and say stop looking at this number. >> when you take the median income of an american household and adjust it for inflation and in 2008, the median american, half of all americans were earning more and half were earning less. 57,400. right now, 56,516. so actually earning less on average than you were in 200...

More and half earn less. this is adjusted for inflation. in today's dollars back in 2008 you could see it was $57,400. today it's $56,516. actually 2015, that's the latest year for which we have numbers. you can see it's a little lower than it was back when president obama took office. now, we talk a lot about jobs created under a president. this is the last six presidents and these are the number of jobs that were created annually as an average. you can see under president carter 2.5 million, 2 million, george h.w. bush, 659,000, look at clinton, 2.8 million per year. george bush only 160,000...