Although employers did add 80,000 jobs in June, it was the third straight month of weak hiring and dramatically lower than the 226,000 new jobs the economy was adding monthly during the first quarter. NBC's Tom Costello reports.
Another relatively weak jobs report and another victory lap for Mitt Romney. But he forgets to mention how hard his buddies in Congress have worked to make this day possible.
Tonight, MSNBC Political Analyst Richard Wolffe joins guest host Michael Eric Dyson to analyze the politics of obstruction and what today’s number means for President Obama.
Then, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC Policy Analyst Ezra Klein looks at which candidate has the policy to create jobs now.
Meantime, President Obama hits Romney where it hurts on health care.
Tonight's Big Panel -- Goldie Taylor, columnist for The Grio and Managing Editor of The Goldie Taylor Project, Jimmy Williams, former Democratic Senate Staffer and MSNBC Contributor, and Jon Bramnick, New Jersey Assembly GOP Leader -- weighs in on the president’s offensive move.
Pennsylvania's Republican effort to disenfranchise three-quarters of a million voters is now headed to court. The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, will tell us how residents are fighting back.
Cookie gate is back in the news and a potential Romney running mate is caught getting a little hot under the collar.
A group of scientists claim they've discovered a subatomic particle that closely matches the description of the fabled Higgs boson. NBC's Mara Schiavocampo reports.
And in the Big Finish, what is "the God particle" and why couldn't American scientists find it? Michael will ask Leonard Mlodinow, physicist at Cal-Tech in Pasadena, author (“Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”).
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Not surprising after all the months of obstructing the presidents bills to get the economy going. But its all gloom and doom other parts of the economy have been picking up. And we don't need a guy telling us we got a kick in the gut! We need to kick some in the ass!
Where's the Romney plan I'm still waiting
On planet Kolob!
Even after the Teapublicans passed the tiny highway bill who's to say these Teatards won't just balance their books like they have done in the past, and not invest in infrastructure as it was intended.
Are human beings a burden or asset? Conservatives assume wealth creates jobs and kick out immigrants to reduce unemployment. Using fantasy as a basis for public law produces bad outcomes. Liberals increase immigration based on the assumption that consumer demand creates jobs. One of these two concepts can be true, but not both.
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Our first Republican president freed the slaves.
Bigotry became part of the republican party during the 1990s when the United States journalism industry was realigned by foreign investors.
There is no scientific, biblical, or other factual evidence to support these conservative claims about race, nationality, and sexual orientation.
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The United States population crashed twice.
Wealth depends upon steady consumer demand, which depends upon population growth.
The following sequence events caused the Great Depression.
Basic economic theory indicates prices and wealth depend on consumer demand, so deportation will create unemployment when it reduces population enough to impact consumer demand.
The Great Recession followed the same population recipe as the Great Depression, with the same result.
Why would voters choose to collapse the economy?
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This is bigotry.
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The part about rising wealth depends on rising population, that's why the Reps want to do away with abortions and birth control, so they'll have an unlimited supply of cheap labor for their slave shops.
Do you know more people signed up for disability then found a job
only 80,000 people fond a job but 85,000 signed up for disability
as a mater of fact obama has created 2.7 million jobs during his term but 3.1 million has signed up for disability
you cant have a more pathetic term as President when you have more claiming disability then you have finding a job
Sure you can, as Ronnie Reagan showed as did both Bush's. Your problem is you don't want to own up to the complete failures of GOP failed economic policies. So you pretend that the economy only got bad in 2009 and ignore that GWB and the GOP came in on a balanced budget and left with record deficits, as did papa Bush and Reagan did as well.
Really irish what makes you believe that as a banned re reg your word has any meaning. I mean really all that you are doing is just proving that you are a lying dishonest troll.
It's really 84,000 new jobs. And that's 84,000 people working today that weren't working a month ago. Mitt Romney is just trying to criticize President Obama, and the media are falling right into line behind him. Romney is a disgrace.
Although Mitt Romney is coy about his economic plan, one thing is certain. The result will best understood by watching the opening scene to "The Running Man" starring Arnie the 'goobernator'.
The Romney Plan will pulverize of what remains of the economic rubble he left behind as a man of wealth and taste in his circle of urbane capitalists who plundered America's economy like a hoard of barbarians. Remember Romney likes to fire workers for his "success" so he and Ann can eat their danishes and pastries on fine china with their family heirloom flatware.
The American Jobs Act would have helped create one million jobs and perhaps saved nearly another million in public sector jobs for teachers, cops, fire, and other government workers. President Obama asked for the American Jobs act to be passed last August, 2011. The GOP House sat on their butts and did nothing to pass it. The GOP House would rather see up to two million Americans remain jobless so that millionaires and billionaires do not have to pay anymore taxes. This pathetic GOP Congress is next to worthless. I hope President Obama campaigns endlessly to get the GOP House turned over to the Democrats. I am so sick and tired of the Tea Party and John Boehner doing nothing while millions of Americans are out of work. The President can not pass new spending bills without Congress passing them first. GOP austerity means we have higher unemployment and Democrats need to hit the GOP every single hour of everyday over this issue of failing to pass the American Jobs Act.
The GOP hasn't offered any solutions other than further deregulation. The recession caused this joblessness yet they want less regulations and silly tax policy..???....the tea party has divorced reality and decided to hit up this phony smmall government corporatist agenda it's just mind boggling. After a collaspe caused by not enforcing rules on our financial institutions and big business they want to give financial institutions and big business less oversight so they can not have government "in the way"
these people are nuts...they think the credit downgrade happened because we raised the debt ceiling....can you believe it?? Crazy.
they think the 08 collapse was because of too high taxes and too much regulation....yeah like if we'd only payed less attention to those subprime loans and risky trades it wouldn't have happened
yeah because when you watch the bankers they get performance anxiety and can't go......
they say taxes are too high....they in reality are historically low
they say there is too much regulation....new regulaitons haven't signifcantly increased
they say ther is too much government blocking access to capital....interest rates are so low, bernanke has them very near zero, their is plenty of capital to be accessed
they say there is too much uncertainty because of obama.....the congress particularly the houseis constantly waiting til the 11th hour to do even mandatory non-politically charged things and is constantly talking about major changes to the budget and oversight which creates a giant confusion about what is or not going to happen
The GOP has divorced reality. They are not merely separated anymore, the relationship is over.
For all the harping they do on things like spending or jobs what would they do different? Notice how they always complain about the debt put never put our anything to solve it
they have the ryan plan which is totally hated because it lies about cutting medicare...even that doesn't balance the budget until 2040
i think reducing military budget is good choice to open new jobs for the people
sorry for double post