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>> i have put together a few toys in my day. >> there you go. if you're skilled with the welding, any of this stuff -- here's the thing, though. this time, it feels a little bit more like it's for real. remember we had that gigantic drop with the great recession. a lot of people who were in construction went on to other different jobs which is one of the reasons we've got this amazing shortage of jobs where that means wages start to go up. >> if you're a carpenter, a roofer, equipment operator, these are all good gigs to have right now. >> good gigs to have. we had the construction numbers in ...

You housing market? that's the flip side. e-mac, explain this one. >> yes, it's bad because look, about 11 to 12 million homes are in negative equity. meaning that's 25% of all mortgages out there that are tipping, and there's he a-- basically a big fat inventory of homes set to be defaulting or delinquent. i propose a new green job program, rehab and refurbish dilapidated old homes and that's how air going to get job creation in this country because we have a problem of suburban poverty right now from these derelict homes that are not being taken care of. >> morgan, are we supposed to get dep...

Job creation trailing the pace of last year through the first six months of the year. steve moore, senior economics writer at "the wall street journal" and joins us now. steve, 80,000 jobs, 0,000 jobs created. where did those jobs come from? >> well, jenna, a pretty lousy report overall. a lot of people expected 100 to 150,000 jobs so we're all very disappointed. yes, those jobs created came from, we did see an increase in white-collar hiring. so businesses for, what we call business services, increased their employment. we did see a small increase in manufacturing. we don't know if we can kee...

Affected by oil. remodeling we will talk to home depot in how that might be impacted. maybe not directly but we look at the housing market, what do we see. >> i don't see oil being a big factor when it comes to housing. new construction numbers were actually down in february and that is what you see in the headlines but that is not the full picture. in january unit sales 4.63 million and in february they were 4.59 million. that is not a huge dip. analysts also are not telling you that dip is based on sales that we saw in november, december and january. >> sean: aren't we in the worst housing m...

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