KQED Washington Week With Gwen Ifill March 9, 2013
Budget cuts took effect. So why the good Economic News . The numbers that came out friday were positive. 236,000 jobs created across the economy. The private sector even stronger. This is against the backdrop on a bunch of other good news, the stock Market Making its first new high since 2007. A rare good week for wall street and main street. To keep these in context, neither of these numbers suggest that the economy is racing ahead. In fact, its still growing at 2 1 2 the same rate it was growing last year. The impressive thing is that its doing this in the face of so many head winds. Gasolin...