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Of abuses and how they are using government issued credit cards. they found 75 of 80 transactions had waste fraud or abuse spending on jim member hips difficult cards ev-- gift cards even charity donations. th it found 79,000 was spent on what it characterized as prohibited or erroneous things. 93 percent of the transactions were used for improper purchases. here's the breakdown. epa workers spent more than 17,000 on gym memberships in some cases for their entire families. 7500 o split purchases where workers did transactions to avoid spending more than 3,000 at a time an amount that would put...

Byron, as always, thank you. >> thank you. >> well, they may not have creepy clowns or choreographed dances, well at least not that we know yet. but the environmental protection agency has a spending problem, and everytime they swipe, you pay. ellis -- ellison, what did they discover? >> the report looked at the epa and looked at their use of purchase cards, which is the main government tab for what is a company credit card. they found -- this -- ineffective oversight of purchase cards resulted in inappropriate purchases. they sampled over $150,000 worth of transactions and they found thought ...

Them and their family, and then issue0s -- fitness is good. >> you can take that case. i don't know the taxpayers will agree with you. >> how many were doing this? 79,000 transactions committed by whom. >> the issue is three tiers of problems. an issue of lower level employees using the card not being aware of the rules or just knowingly using them improperly. then an issue of the next people supposed to look at receipts and making sure they have everything, not doing their jobs and, why this report is troubling they're sailing senior officials because of federal laws, they weren't going back ...

The line on the bls. it's still coming down, 12.6, but too high. these are the number of people unemployed that are working part-time, would like to be employed full-time. 71,000 jobs created there, lawyers, people who work in offices. technology workers. 79,000 jobs created in that sector. that's something to continue to watch. >> cnn's kriflt techristine rom. thank you for that. here are other business stories. this appropriate for this hour. a bacon alarm app that wakes you up to the smell and sound of sizzling bacon. how does it do this? it's made by who else -- osmar oscar mayer. >> and...

To 6.7% but the labor department telling us little has changed. the trend is what's important. hiring has been slowly picking up this year but it needs to be stronger. you need to be seeing 200,000, 200,000 plus every month. what economists are telling me this morning is if you hadn't had that bad weather you might have been there. this might have been a month that saw hiring doing what we wanted to see, doing 200, 250 or higher. the real key is next month and the month after whether this momentum continue. we knew the weather would be very difficult to see what the underlying trend was in the...