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The current labor market is unlike anything America has ever experienced. It was also unfathomable, back at the start of the pandemic, that instead of a prolonged weak job market with few job opportunities and stagnant wages, there would be a record number of job openings and significant income gains beginning within just a year of the pandemic.
Frivolous lawsuit. >> john boehner can do it. >> anyone can bring a lawsuit. this is one of the things you have to make a decision as an attorney. do you fight it, or is it going to cost you more money to just give them the $5,000? >> you might as well go back to napping. >> karen desoto, thank you very much. up next, for all the talk of raising the minimum wage, there's a bigger problem holding workers back. first, let's get you caught up in the storm cycle. we are tracking another afternoon of summer storms. 44 million americans are watching the skies, or at least maybe they should be. the m...
The senate has used parliamentary maneuvers to block a vote denying millions of people who are out of work much-needed relief. these leaders in the senate who were advancing a misguided notion that emergency relief somehow discourages people from looking for a job should talk to these folks. that attitude, i think, reflects a lack of faith in the american people. it's time to stop holding workers laid off in this recession hostage to washington politics. it's time to do what's right. not for the next election, but for the middle class. >> now tomorrow, the senate takes the billup once again. d...
>> bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly in a personal story segment tonight, right now there are 14.6 million people unemployed in this country. and some of them are receiving unemployment insurance. but for 2.5 million unemployed americans, that insurance has run out. president obama wants to extend the benefits but is being blocked by some republicans in the senate. >> these leaders in the senate who are advancing a misguided notion that emergency relief somehow discourages people from looking for a job should talk to these folks. that attitude, i think, reflects a black of fa...
Filibuster-proof majority. >> the issue of how to pay for those benefits is going to last all the way until november. t.j. winick is joining us from washington with the details. good morning, t.j. >> reporter: good morning, rob and vinita. 2.5 million americans may have received their last unemployment check, that is, unless senators can break theia >> good morning, everybody. >> reporter: jim is a former parts manager at a new jersey honda dealersip. laid off in september 20's been unable tnd wnce. making matters worse, the unemployment check he received last week will be his last, unless the...