due to the economic crunch, i had been unemployed. a diagnosis of cancer has made matters even worse for me. fortunately, i found mission hiring hall, who encouraged me to enroll in the construction administration training program. the active participation from the volunteers in this program has greatly contributed in preparing me for employment in the construction industry. presently, i have my health back. i am interning with paiy, and my only hope to be permanently employed in this industry is when the rebuild cpmc project is implemented. i need a job. i do not want to be a problem to the city. i want to be a solution. thank you. >> thank you. [calling names] >> good afternoon. thank you, commissioners. we are supporting the rebuilding of cpmc. i know the commissioners are looking at a myriad of factors. i would like to focus my comments on two important facets of the project. local contacting and local hiring opportunities. my firm is the administrator for the city's contractor bonding assistance program implemented 15 years ago.

women say that for them is more difficult, the gender gap among the unemployed veterans. good evening. the tragic ending to a family bike ride this morning, and out of control driver in concord kills a father and daughter. don knapp is at the crash site where the victims' family members came to mourn. >> traffic continues to whiz by the scene as a growing flowers memorial sits in front of the debris pile. throughout the night people continue to pay their respects. relatives kneel and pray on the sidewalk >> it is my brother-in-law and my niece who passed away, he was a great father, a good husband and a good role model to all the teenagers and a good coach for the soccer club and i'm dearly heartbroken today. >> solomon and his two daughters were riding bicycles on the sidewalk. wreckage and debris give a sense of the violent force of the crash. a damaged vehicle, a damaged building and bicycles on the ground >> the fire hydrant landed in the middle of the median. . it was pretty devastating to see bodies all over the ground. >> authorities say the s-u-v was moving fast o

aen this is where, people, more people have been unemployed for longer than i think, since the great depression, but, jonas, the issue here for you, is that they're already so many incentives to hire. >> right, and i like the idea in theory of a training program, but there already are, like the student loans, in this country, it's great. i'm not saying we shouldn't do that. this is kind of like a subsidized internship or sp, and corporate america, you get employed for free and quote unquote, train. and interns, and they collect unemployment from the government. i won't say it's better than collecting unemployment, and has some improvement. but unemployment, now you don't need to hire people because you have the freeway interns kicking around you're allowed to work and i think the president is scared to go full fdr and hire people for the works program. and the government has their own problem or recession, and i don't think it's a good mix. >> alisyn: wait a minute, i've got gary b. the look on your face is-- >> the look on my face is still, in fact, when i heard the word innovation.

i mean economists really debate why is it that so many of the unemploy ready unemployed for so long. is it because they just don't have the skills necessary for the jobs that are out there, is it because they can't sell their houses and move to the cities where there are jobs. i think probably the best explanation is just that the economy has been so sluggish. and by the way, we know that that is normal after a financial crisis. and it is so sluggish that the sales have not been there for businesses to hire a lot. and so the people that they don't hire spend longer unemployed. >> woodruff: now there is one other thing i want-- and i should say that we have a report coming up shortly on the program, paul solomon who will lack at this disconnect between employers looking and people looking for work. but one of the things is the federal reserve. the open -- >> yes. >> woodruff: the open markets committee. >> sure. >> woodruff: what is the name of it. >> the federal open market committee. >> woodruff: thank you. has met. the feeling seems to be coming out of there that the economy doesn'

the long-term unemployed it. there are four unemployed people . they're used to be seven. it would have been best of the could create the best most his fourth job, when the future with shiny high-speed rail. and we tried to do so of that the best we could. i think the book gives a good story of where we succeeded where we failed. but what people are unemployed is the just that they're losing that much about employment, losing billions of dollars, they're losing it forever. those resources that are gone. you cannot get that back. that, to be, is terrible waste that can be avoided. recognize that instead of just sacrificing weeks and years of hours, try to find somebody to do. there are also multipliers. someone who has -- was quick to use this -- i did go to a diner that was there when the car construction sites and s. the his business picked up. have you hired anybody. absolutely. you might find jobs a you don't think is the best economic investment, but somebody is contributed. there is a multiplier effect. they're spending a decrease by -- spending, and that creates more

. >> 10.2 percent of male vets are listed as unemployed, the number stands at 10.8 percent for females. well above the national average. female veterans say they face particular barriers, as we hear tonight from john blackstone. >> the bombs were hitting all-round our chest and hitting our trucks and hitting our tanks. >> they served side by side. >> we are out there with them and the gunners, we are so used to being with the guys over there. >> being one of the guys has helped women like army reserve sergeant marie adams game acceptance on the battlefield. >> the, translating that into the civilian world, it is misunderstood. >> he is a photographer shooting everything from combat to portraits. >> i had the experience, i have been trained by the government, i should be able to get a job, there should be no problem but that is not the case. >> it was the same with national guard sergeant lindsey freeland, a digital designer who who drove trucks through afghanistan. >> constantly putting in applications, resumes for different or same jobs and getting constant rejection letters. >> likew

or underemployed and if you're unemployed for only several months you can default on your student loan and not all mess up your entire financial future you may never be able to buy a house rent an apartment or even get a job but the sixty percent of employers that check credit when hiring but what it comes down to what i wanted to note is that sallie mae it all comes back to selling me america's largest student lender think of them as how bank of america was for the for closure crisis now house speaker john boehner his daughter works for sallie mae and he's very close friends with their c.e.o. albert lord so really this is about nepotism as well john boehner just helping out his friends and his child he's not thinking about america's youth we certainly see a lot of that here in washington the revolving door between lobbyists and politics and a lot of them are friends and relatives. we put some of the numbers up before but if you look at this timeline of what's going on here it's not just about this threat of the interest rate doubling we've got about a quarter of you know we've got abo

unemployed when there is real unemployed people there and you are a quarter billionaire. >> we keep hearing the president say michelle and i were paying off our student loans just eight years ago. it's not just the finances i think that obama is better at relating to people, he's better by saying i understand some of the struggles that you have. sometimes when he is campaigning, surprised he is president of the united states. he just said yesterday, you know, i'm the president of the united states, and i just paid off my loans eight years ago. the girl spilling yogurt, and i'm the president of the united states. >> if you think romney is pompous now, what do you think he will be like as a president? imagine if he were actually elected what he would be like. i don't think he would be connecting with regular people. >> and ann romney, the likable of the pair saying it's mitt's time, there's just going to be an incredible contrast between people who act like they were born, and these other two people who have been fortunate products of the american dream, who always seem as erin says, a little

the whole point of unemployment insurance is that you are unemployed. he's saying you can go to work, have the job and still get unemployment, how does that improve the job market. >> it con found me, too, it was tested in georgia, a program that became popular, you get the unemployment check while working for a short period of time and the employer does not pay you, you get some pay for what you are a doing. why test a job and why not find a real job you take and stay with? it makes no sense for the federal government to be paying for you to mess around and try something else. -- something out. >> governor huckabee: it seems like if it was a movie i'd call it a bridge too far rather than a bridge to work. the president this week has especially, seemingly-on after mitt romney because he has had a lot of success in his life. i'm not sure that that will work for the president to attack the success of mitt romney. is it a good strategy to say, look, he's rich and has been successful. >> what he said, the president said, i wasn't born with a silver spoon in

she is unemployed and is expected to graduate from an alternative school in june. she was arrested on friday after a public police search and charged with first- and second-degree assault and armed robbery. >> she was charged with armed robbery because she used the shoe as a blunt-force object. >> another suspect, aaron parsons, turned himself in to police days ago. police are looking for two more people in conjunction with this case. kim dacey, wbal-tv 11 news. >> a change of venue request in the trial of two brothers accused of beating a black teenager. comparisons to the trayvon martin case make it impossible for the brothers to get a fair trial, says the attorney. the victim suffered a broken wrist and a laceration to his head. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. do you think a judge should grant a request to delay the trial of eliyahu and avi werdesheim because of comparisons to the trayvon martin case? you can share your response on wbaltv.com, on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> one of the brothers acq

if you -- and many of these people in this country have been unemployed, spend 30 days in 15 months unemployed, if you are active military service and you are self-employed and your income went down or we see it with the gnarl disasters, if have you suffered through one of these natural disasters, form 1127. this allows to you aroid paying publics for six months. have you to pay the taxes and you have to pay interest, but you avoid the publics. >> this is federal. states have different -- >> you have to look at the state you are in? >> jamie: you want folks to not forget to file. >> one of the most important things, people look at the number and they panic. they go, e, my god, what am i going to do? the percent of penalty for not filing is 5% a month. even if have you to file an extension, send them in, i promised -- let's deliver. where do you find the cash? home equity lines have somewhat dried up. but a lot of people owe more on their homes than they can can borrow. should you borrow from a retirement account? >> the home equity loan, if it's available, great. 401(k) plans, a lot of them ha

frustrated and unemployed they made it home but are worried they're being left behind. >> the navy calls a day miracle no one was killed. dramatic new video from the navy jet crash. what commanders say helped minimize the destruction. it is not every day you hear you can lose weight by eating chocolate. how one man says it worked for him. >> it was a lovely day all across the bay. temperatures not too bad right now, mostly in the '50s. >> virginia's governor calls it divine providence and others say it is the good friday miracle. some 40 apartments were damaged or destroyed when a navy jet crashed into an apartment building but there was no loss of life. >> bright orange flames ripped through the apartment building moments after an faa 80 navy jet crashes. you can see parts of the wreckage smoldering in the fire surrounded by thick black smoke >> the whole thing was in flames and then things started to explode and things just kept exploding in the black smoke kept coming >> new video shows firefighters and police breaking doors to rescue anyone who might have been trapped in the building

they reach every day, 23 million unemployed workers. we have all the computer technology that allows us to follow who did talk to. they are talking to one another. we have to get that focus clearly established in their minds that they have a job to do. they have -- they are unemployed, but that job occurs on election day of this year. and it is go to cast a ballot in this election and help us to do have jobs turn this country back in the right direction. we need everybody's help on that. that is why i cannot help but go back from my own experiences. we win when everybody works together. i want to get back into the winning column again. and where people have hope and something to look forward to. [applause] >> a quick question. it is good to see several buckeyes on stage. i'm from ohio. i have one question regarding card check and secret ballot. in some states, you have to sign a card and once the majority of the cards are collected, the employee union is informed. in other states, you have cards and you can pala for union information. s

the whole point of unemployment insurance is that you are unemployed. he's saying you can go to work, have the job and still get unemployment, how does that improve the job market. >> it con found me, too, it was tested in georgia, a program that became popular, you get the unemployment check while working for a short period of time and the employer does not pay you, you get some pay for what you are a doing. why test a job and why not find a real job you take and stay with? it makes no sense for the federal government to be paying for you to mess around and try something else. -- something out. >> governor huckabee: it seems like if it was a movie i'd call it a bridge too far rather than a bridge to work. the president this week has especially, seemingly-on after mitt romney because he has had a lot of success in his life. i'm not sure that that will work for the president to attack the success of mitt romney. is it a good strategy to say, look, he's rich and has been successful. >> what he said, the president said, i wasn't born with a silver spoon in

she is a stay at home mother and he is a newly unemployed >> right now we need 3900 >> 2 live paycheck to paycheck and relying on credit cards they have already blown the savings that they had. certified financial planner says a recent study shows we're not just not prepared for unemployment >> what they found was that one out of three americans would not be able to make more than the next rent or mortgage payment if they lost their job >> they sent down to brainstorm solutions. first on the list is create additional income. right away she tapped into danielle's experience with sign language. 20-$30 per hour as a source of added income. there are plenty of ads for handymen, interpreters, even babysitters. maximize your tax potential. they received a $3,000 tax refund in 2009, $250 per month they could have applied to their expenses >> if you even get to keep an extra hundred dollars per month it can make a big difference >> acclaimed minimum i thought but i guess i'm not sure >> nancy recommends that they call to see if they can lower their interest rates and meet with a credit counsel

on forcing federal contractors to disclose their political donations and training programs for the unemployed that are running out of money then david sirota is going to join us to talk about laws being passed in the states to let corporate secrets things like what goes on in factory farms say secret and a look at a report that says the u.s. funded trained to any k. right here on u.s. soil as we get more details about the group that's on the state department's designated list of terrorist organizations and ask why the u.s. government would arm that kind of all that morphine and i including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to me it's. all right so just last week it was announced by the pentagon like the lead sheikh mohammad and four coconspirators would finally be facing trial not in our federal civilian courts like the administration had been pushing for but in a military commission and the media gave it a little bit of play. police shaikh mohammad set to face the death penalty now for his role in the nine eleven attacks terrorism charges were fil

i do not want to join their ranks of unemployed recent graduates. i want to contribute in this project so i will always so proud of myself for being part of one of the most significant construction projects in the city. i know this project is very related to politics. how many real lives of real people is the hospital associated with it? this is my future, i want to share this future with thousands of patients who will need this help one day. give me an opportunity to live my dream. thank you. >> [calling names] >> good afternoon'm the executif apa family support services. organization has been around for almost 25 years. through our partners, -- cpmc has been a longtime supporter of our efforts to support families. i am here to request your support for cpmc and their efforts. i want to commend the mayor and the department staff for all of the good work they have done in negotiating with cpmc in good faith. i think it will make a huge difference in terms of our community. not only bring jobs -- i am on the faculty of san jose state. it is great to h

. >>> assignees on the door was a free dry cleaning for anyone unemployed who hides an upcoming job interview. mellon a dry cleaners owner wants to help. it was her son's semmes idea inspired by what he read online about other businesses doing good deeds. >>> in an economy that we're living in a lot of people have access to the little resources such as cleaning its huge foreign injury somewhere ends and is glad we can help out with that. >>> is michael super recently got a little help. i didn't expect that all ideas coming into heavy seas be dry cleaned and to have is offered to me was grades the offer comes with no questions asked. >>> you require any proof that they're unemployed? i did not really about knowing that they don't have a job in doing that we lend a helping hand to people who needed help. then out on the got the suit claims but altered to 8 $50 tab on the house. i own only one suit and with the help of susie and salmon everybody here and look up every single interview went to hear. as a blind schools today graduate degree in physical parody. some east palance and years. no no he

due to the economic downturn, i've been unemployed. the diagnosis for cancer makes matters worse for me. fortunately, i found mission hiring hall. they convinced me to enroll in the construction administration program. the active participation of the volunteers in this program has great contributed in preparing me for employment in the construction industry. presently, i have my health back. my only hope of getting perm anent employment in this industry is when the project is implemented. i support rebuilding cpmc because of the jobs it will generate. i believe that cpmc will be able to continue to provide the exceptional health care that it is known for with state of the art facilities in its new seismically safe building. i need a job. i do not want to be a problem to the city. i want to be a solution. please vote yes today. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm here representing the bay area council. we are public policy advocacy organization. i would like to give you a little bit of perspective. in 1971, a small earthquake hit the san

we have 800,000 unemployed youth today. so we needed to introduce another track, which is a component in the economy for 2012. we are going to increase government in three major programs. one policeman is to create immediate temporary jobs for about 100,000 people. just like the new deal did in the 1930s, which is to provide the youth with some temporary job waiting for the economy to take off. the second program it s to do an on-job training. certain disciplines are not required today or asked for for a job, to give them english skills, to give them ict skills, which makes them more attractive for employers. and the third program is to build 30,000 social housing units over a period of two years. now, this will be done through increased government spending but to i reassure, ilt going to be in a go-and-stop mote. -- mode. it will start in 2012 and it will stop in 2013 and hopefully the economy will catch up to provide the necessary jobs. now the announcement of this program had the good psychological effect in tunisia toda

to access the job market, and have put in place measures incentivizing employers to employee at the unemployed. no one should pretend it is easy. labor market reforms are difficult. it is essential for competitiveness in creating greater opportunities in the future, especially for younger workers. it needs to be done according to the specific use of the country, he needs to be done with care, and in a dialogue that is a solid dialogue with all the stakeholders. third, remember the financial sector that works that served the economy? the competitiveness? the reform of the labour market? finally, the appropriate safety net that will protect the less privileged. this is necessary because the reforms that i had just mentioned actually stretch society, and put them at risk, there for safety nets are important. i will take the example of kenya, for instance, where we have worked hard, and the volume of cash transfers to the underprivileged has moved from 200 families to 33,000 in just four years. that has helped. the imf will continue to work closely with countries with that in mind -- jobs, inclusi

the whole point of unemployment insurance is that you are unemployed. he's saying you can go to work, have the job and still get unemployment, how does that improve the job market. >> it con found me, too, it was tested in georgia, a program that became popular, you get the unemployment check while working for a short period of time and the employer does not pay you, you get some pay for what you are a doing. why test a job and why not find a real job you take and stay with? it makes no sense for the federal government to be paying for you to mess around and try something else. -- something out. >> governor huckabee: it seems like if it was a movie i'd call it a bridge too far rather than a bridge to work. the president this week has especially, seemingly-on after mitt romney because he has had a lot of success in his life. i'm not sure that that will work for the president to attack the success of mitt romney. is it a good strategy to say, look, he's rich and has been successful. >> what he said, the president said, i wasn't born with a silver spoon in

we talk a lot about how many people are unemployed. what about the number of people who are employed? the size of the work force has shrunk and shrunk dramatically. and it's now where it was 30 years ago, think about that. that's when women were just getting into the work force, so we have a very small work force now and it's a tragedy. so many people on entitlement programs right now. that's one of the big issues. >> the unemployment rate is often talked about, recently about 8 pony -- 8.2. and what do they mean when they say a the real unemployment rate is up in the teens. >> the jobs numbers are tricky and they only count people who are reporting as unemployed. a lot of people go et discouraged and walk away. they drop out of the work force and we lose track of them. you look at the real number, closer to 14.5%. >> mike: the president recently came out with what he calls the bridge to work program and what it does, allows people to continue collecting unemployment benefits, 99 weeks, two years and if they get a job, they can sort of

. >> reporter: keith is among oakland's many unemployed and from where he sits, things are not getting much better. >> is it getting easier to find a job? >> no, not getting easier. to me it's about the same. >> reporter: unemployment numbers may be improving in the bay area but oakland still has one of the highest jobless rates in the state. >> leaving the city of oakland but there is still a reluctance we have noticed of employers to employ new people. >> in february, their employment rate 16.1%. this year the unemployment elevate 14 hadn't 1%. they have seen job growth in construction health care and retail but not much in the professional sector. >> sometimes not even replies on websites. >> finding a job is especially challenging for people between 18-30. more than one-third remain unemployed. >> a lot of them are coming from a school system that are struggling with graduation rates. the high rate of crime in oakland and high rate of gang involvement. >> at least some are finding a path to possible at east bay mud they graduated from a program called waterways, 20 weeks of plumber

and you have almost half of young people were recent graduates were either unemployed or employed. this is a combination of the student debt plus other people can't get a job and going back to live with mom and dad agn. this is really a major crisis and what obama is saying not really effecting the current unemployed indebted graduate. it's the future. >> 65% of the vote of youth in the last go around for president. does he have that today? >> no. >> he is way ahead of romney. well, it may not be 2-1 but it's close. the battle this week is over the republican congresses budget and how it's now the student loan rates will double by july and when the president campaigned on that, romney immediately said i afree with him and the -- aagree with him and the republican congress says they agree. but they can't agree on how to pay for it. they come up with bright idea they will take the money out of the obama care prevention and public health fund. which -- wait a second i'm not done. which essentially funds a lot of programs for womens health. so this is like a gift to the democrats. syst

. >> you don't make fun about being unemployed when there is real unemployed people there going through the humiliation of it, and you are a quarter billionaire, and they know it. >> yeah. and that i think is why we keep hearing the president say, michelle and i were paying off our student loans just eight years ago. you know, it is not just the finances, i think, that obama is better at relating to people. he is better at relating by saying, i've been through some of the same struggles that you have. he understands college kids. almost sometimes when he is campaigning, surprised he is the president of the united states. he just said yes, you know, i'm the president of the united states even i just paid off my student loans eight years ago. same thing, a girl spilling yogurt on him. can you believe it? she has a story to tell. she spilled yogurt on me and she has a story to tell. and people like it. >> if you think romney were pompous now, can you imagine if he is president. the sense of entitlement that exudes from him. imagine if he were actually elected. i don't think he would connec

i do do some youth work, but i worked the unemployed grown folks, 25 and up. we have to understand that we do have a population that is reentering and we have a population that has already reentered and is still unemployed. one of the things i bring to the board, i do currently have an outreach contract with the mayor's office of economic workforce. i work with the economic side as well as the work force side.

one, how does the president convince unemployed young people that he's going to help them, and then two, does he even have to bother as long as they don't like mitt romney? there's two different things which is, one, the president -- whoever the president is actually doing any policies that are helping anybody do anything, and how much is the president just somebody that you like better than the other guy who you hate worse? >> well, politically speaking, that seems to be very much the culture. the obama campaign, on some level, which you may be tepid on me, but do you really want that guy? to me that's pretty compelling. but i'd like to see the president be more agressive, but i would have liked to see that three years ago. so i'll lament the fact that romney, in some respects, a stronger candidate because newt gingrich certainly showed how to defeat romney when you talk about as a rule tour capitalism, but i don't think we'll see the president have to go there because, you know, mitt romney is not putting up enough of a fight. >> there's still half of the graduating class either unemp

beginning with the 1894 march calling for public works programs for the unemployed and continues through the 1963 civil rights march and aebt vietnam war protests. >> thank you steve. thank you all for coming here. i'm very glad to be here at catholic, where my good friend john sweet has been teaching for many years and i have learned much about him and much about this institution so it's interesting to finally see the place since i've only heard about it from the distance. of course coming to washington is not so unfamiliar for me. i have did many years of research, obviously, in connection with this book. but i am also, someone was asking me just before, about whether or not i had washington ties. and i am someone who came from a family that is tide to washington on my father's side, both his parents came from washington and lived here. and that also ties into a question that i think is very pertinent to, and is asked all the time these days, is why write a book on the history of marching on washington. and the way i think about that now is, there's two answers. one personal and one mo