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Why did the unemployment rate tick up in may? >> short answer, bill, is that we had a lot more people entering the workforce. not enough jobs being created to offset the number of people entering. we had about 650,000 new entrants to the workforce. we only added 69,000 jobs on net. that's going to drive up the unemployment rate modestly like we saw in the numbers today. >> bill: did they come from colleges because of college graduations? where did they come from, these people who want jobs? >> this is mostly people who were on the sidelines in previous months. the last month we had a number of...

Why did the unemployment rate tick up in may? >> short answer, bill, is that we had a lot more people entering the workforce. not enough jobs being created to offset the number of people entering. we had about 650,000 new entrants to the workforce. we only added 69,000 jobs on net. that's going to drive up the unemployment rate modestly like we saw in the numbers today. >> bill: did they come from colleges because of college graduations? where did they come from, these people who want jobs? >> this is mostly people who were on the sidelines in previous months. the last month we had a number of...

Why did the unemployment rate tick up in may? >> short answer, bill, is that we had a lot more people entering the workforce. not enough jobs being created to offset the number of people entering. we had about 650,000 new entrants to the workforce. we only added 69,000 jobs on net. that's going to drive up the unemployment rate modestly like we saw in the numbers today. >> bill: did they come from colleges because of college graduations? where did they come from, these people who want jobs? >> this is mostly people who were on the sidelines in previous months. the last month we had a number of...

Decent housing, massive investment in health care beyond simply the private companies running things. i'm talking about making a life of decency accessible to poor people. >> tavis? >> short answer, ed, is something is wrong with the nation. it is something very damning about this country, the younger you are, the more likely you are to be poor. women and children are falling fast near poverty than anyone else. this did not happen on mr. obama's watch. the truth is that no president, republican or democrat since lyndon johnson declared a war on poverty that we are going to win. the title of th...

>> well, one, we have to love poor people which means we make them a priority and the way we made investment bankers priority and bail out massive investment in jobs. massive investment in housing, decent housing, massive investment in health care beyond simply the private companies running things. i'm talking about making a life of decency accessible to poor people. >> tavis? >> short answer, ed, is something is wrong with the nation. it is something very damning about this country, the younger you are, the more likely you are to be poor. women and children are falling fast near poverty than ...