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Have been hiring people back but four days closed because it was just too cold to get to school. >> right. >> so really -- you do see a weather imprint here that we hope will dissipate as we get to the spring. >> diane, the unemployment rate is 6.6%. how much of that is because people who can't find work just dropping out of the labor force? >> well, you know, ironically, in month of january we saw a bit of a rebound in labor participation but let's face it, the rate has fallen really dramatically since the onset of the recession. about half of the decline, 3%, is due to demographics, people g...

Subsidies and it's about 2 1/2 million workers that actually would work less, not necessarily drop out of the labor force but work less. so it's really not either one is right. the truth is always somewhere in between. when you're talking about politics, you rarely get the truth. >> diane scwonk, thank you. he said it wasn't a joke but he got funny at last when he compared to laguardia to other developing countries. but is he right? and stepping foot in the country that he wants to be ambassador of. [ female announcer ] a classic macaroni & cheese from stouffer's

And it's raising more questions about whether americans are recovering from the recession. 113,000 jobs were added in january. that's 65,000 less than economists predicted and far below the average 194,000 jobs added each month in 2013. but the unemployment rate did drop to 6.6%, the lowest since october 2008 before president obama was even elected. this was the second month in a row with disappointing job figures and after a record-breaking year, stocks have been, well, jittery. look at the dow over the last month. it's down over 4%. so what is the truth here? is this just the winter blues? t...