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Staple in the american home. alison kosik is getting down to business. >> reporter: the recovery in the u.s. job market is getting stronger. the economy added 244,000 jobs in april. and the private sector tacked on 268,000 jobs. that's the biggest monthly increase in five years. for the first time in 20 years there are fewer american homes with a tv. according to nielsen, the number of households with tvs has dropped more than 2% in the past year. one reason, a growing number of young people watch movies and tv programs online. and streaming video seems to take a lot of energy. over the past...

Dropped more than 2% in the past year. one reason, a growing number of young people watch movies and tv programs online. and streaming video seems to take a lot of energy. over the past decade the power needed to run computer servers has increased by more than 10% every year. the internet already uses more electricity than u.s. car and truck production. that's this week's "getting down to business." alison kosik, cnn. hey, did you ever finish last month's invoices? sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place ar...

Liberty. i can't hurt you. it's limiting their ability to -- >> so people when they get together to define the rules by which the other person can hurt you, to use your phrase, isn't that what government does? >> yes, and very poorly because in an economic sense, what they do is they act with prior restraint. we're not allowed to use prior restraint to restrain you on what you do on your tv programs, but people think on economics, it's different. i say economics and personal liberty are one in the same. >> let me continue this analogy. let's say we know the coal plant is going to spew up all t...

It's time to talk about the other issues as well. they are not addressed in the president's tenure window. everybody should be concerned about that. >> the devil is in the details. there are clear battle lines being drawn between republicans and democrats. let me play what ed marquee had to say. >> republicans tilted the sails in favor of big oil at the expense of big bird. they don't want to cut out the $43 billion for the oil industry, but at the same time, they want to cut the budget for children's television programming in our country. >> so, are you in favor of keeping subsidies for the o...

Keep the interview the way you want it where you're the boss. i found it a brilliant experience. i think that even if you don't like the guest i have, even if you don't like me, it shouldn't really be the criteria for watching. i don't always find that the tv programs i like watching are necessarily with people i particularly like myself. what i want to see is energy and dine amism, humor, very important, a sense of enthusiasm on behalf of the interviewer, the guest and the guest for coming on the show. there's nothing more boring than boring tv. who wants to watch that? the one thing i can gu...