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Bill: a closer look how americans are affected about this. 14 million americans are unemployed. that is the official number. nearly six million have been unemployed more than six months. this latest number says the struggle of finding a new job after losing one. more than 42% of all unemployed americans have been jobless more than six months. that is an enormous number that must get lower. right now it is not. martha: the fear of another government shutdown may be forcing the house speaker to play nice to some extent with democrats on this one. the lawmakers need to come up with a massive spen...

Dollars to help them is a big deal here both politically and economically but it does nothing to resolve europe's underlying debt problem which just rolls on and on and on and still is right at the cliff edge. yeah, i is a big deal here for us because we spend our money. it is not a big deal there because it didn't fix their problem. >> you say the debt situation in europe has not been solved and they're a long way from doing that? >> yes. bill: what does it say about our own debt situation here at home, stuart? >> the europeans arrived the at debt crutch a long time before we did but we're dr...

Round one, the euro currency. has been a dismal failure. bill: we see see that in 2011. stuart, see you at 9:20. we have a lot more to talk about. martha: in terms of the employment picture the economy is remains in rough shape. the number came in a little while ago, 402,000 claims came in last week. that is worries by 12,000 what economists expected. they expected the number to go down. we had been on a pretty decent trend with the weekly unemployment number. now the second week we see the number go up 402,000. the low we reached just a couple months ago, 375 a month ago i should say. 375,000...

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