Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131214:15:45:00
Months is at an all-time high. and part of the this deal is to end unemployment benefits. how bad is that not just for those folks but for our economy? >> it's misery for those people and their children, and when you combine especially with food stamp cuts and daycare and just economic idiocy. the larger problem is having this large number of unemployed people is driving down everybody's wages. it's at the lowest level since 1998, $500 a week. the share of worker who is make below average wages is growing. at the same time, the $5 million and up jobs of which there are about 8,000, 9,000, are ...