Unemployment Issues

Oct 25, 2009

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Jane Oates spoke and answered questions on U.S. unemployment and the debate in Congress over extending benefits longer to jobless people in states with especially high unemployment. Following her appearance journalists spoke about her remarks.
Jane Oates spoke and answered questions on U.S. unemployment and the debate in Congress over extending benefits longer to jobless people in states with especially high unemployment. Following her appearance journalists spoke about her remarks.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:33 Unidentified Speaker SECRETARY SOLIS IS GOING TO BE VEILED -- VERY AVAILABLE AS THE NUMBERS COME OUT. WE DO NOT THINK IT...
00:00:54 HOST A VIEWER FROM DETROIT, MICHIGAN, CALLED IN ON FRIDAY AND VIEWERS WHO, AS OF YESTERDAY, ARE NO LONGER...
00:01:12 Unidentified Speaker FIRST OF ALL, THAT CHOLERA IS HEARTBREAKING, JUST LIKE ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE. BUT THEY SHOULD GO...
00:02:12 HOST WE GO TO OUR FIRST QUESTION.
00:02:15 Unidentified Speaker THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE BEING UNEMPLOYED IS EXCEEDING 5.4 MILLION, UNEMPLOYED FOR SIX WEEKS OR LONGER....
00:02:26 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THAT ANYONE WOULD AGREE THAT THIS RECESSION IS VERY PERSISTENT. IT IS HARD TO DEFINE. IT KEEPS...
00:03:02 Unidentified Speaker THERE IS SOMETHING ON THE ORDER OF 15 MILLION PEOPLE THAT SELF IDENTIFIED AS UNEMPLOYED BUT ONLY 68...
00:03:18 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS TRUE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. UNDER THE PUBLIC WORKS SYSTEM THEY ARE ENTITLED TO COME IN, THERE ARE...
00:03:56 Unidentified Speaker TOM, ASSOCIATED PRESS.
00:03:57 Unidentified Speaker HOW ARE YOU DOING? CONGRESS IS POINTED OUT THIS WEEK TO SAY THAT THE RECESSION IS OVER, BUT THE YOU...
00:04:13 Unidentified Speaker WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW ARE IN CHALLENGING TIMES. WE ARE NOT GOING TO STOP EVERYTHING THAT WE ARE DOING...
00:04:23 Unidentified Speaker THIS IS A DEEPER RECESSION SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION. ECONOMISTS SAY THE JOBLESS RATE WILL HANG AROUND...
00:04:50 Unidentified Speaker ECONOMISTS, I THINK IT WOULD AGREE THAT THIS JOBLESS OF RECOVERY WOULD BE MORE -- IS GREATER THAN...
00:05:52 Unidentified Speaker YOU MENTIONED A GREEN JOBS. THE NUMBER OF JOBS THAT ARE CREATED, IT MAKES IT LOOK LIKE WE HAVE A LONGER-TERM...
00:06:23 Unidentified Speaker I DO NOT THINK THAT THERE WILL BE ONE SOLUTION. THAT INDUSTRY KIND OF PULLED US OUT OF IT.
00:06:38 Unidentified Speaker WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK AT MULTI-SECTOR. WHETHER YOU LOOK AT THE VARIETY OF OPPORTUNITIES AS...
00:07:53 Unidentified Speaker WHAT IS THE OUTLOOK? I GATHER THAT THE HOUSE PASSED A BILL LAST MONTH THAT, AS SOON AS YOU LEFT, WHAT...
00:08:10 Unidentified Speaker IN THE STOOD THERE WOULD BE A CLOTURE VOTE THIS WEEK. I THINK THAT YOUR VIEWERS PROBABLY NO BETTER...
00:08:51 Unidentified Speaker THE HOUSE BILL WOULD ONLY GIVE THIS EXTENSION TO STATES WHERE THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WAS 8% OR HIGHER....
00:09:14 Unidentified Speaker THE ADMINISTRATION DOES NOT HAVE A CORE POSITION RIGHT NOW. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE HOUSE IS BEING...
00:09:56 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU THINK OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS? IT...
00:10:07 Unidentified Speaker THERE IS A STEP TO BE TAKEN IN THAT DIRECTION, IF YOU WERE TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE AT THE STATE LEVEL,...
00:10:39 Unidentified Speaker $15 BILLION ALLOCATED, NOT ALL OF IT HAS BEEN SPEND. DID IT CREATE JOBS THAT YOU PERSONALLY EXPECTED...
00:10:48 Unidentified Speaker HARD TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION, MY TIME HAS BEEN SPENT ON THE MONEY BEING PUT OUT FOR JOB TRAINING. ...
00:11:44 Unidentified Speaker SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT BE DOING A MORE AGGRESSIVE JOB? IF YOU ARE OUT OF WORK AND LOOKING FOR A JOB,...
00:12:01 Unidentified Speaker I AM GLAD THAT THERE IS NOT AN ECONOMIST IN THE ROOM, THEY WOULD JUST TELL YOU THAT IN THEIR WORLD...
00:13:06 Unidentified Speaker DENN AT THE EMPLOYMENT ADMINISTRATION, THAT IS OUR CORE MISSION. WE ARE MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE PROVIDING...
00:13:24 Unidentified Speaker NOT JUST TRAINING, AND INTERESTING STUDY FROM CLEVELAND SHOWED THAT THE STATES WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER...
00:13:56 Unidentified Speaker I COULD SAY THAT WE TOTALLY AGREE WITH THAT STATEMENT. THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF EDUCATION AND I HAVE,...
00:15:48 Unidentified Speaker 9.8% UNEMPLOYMENT IN SEPTEMBER, DOES THAT NOT UNDERSTATE THE TRUE PROBLEM? ISN'T IT REALLY LIKE 16%...
00:16:07 Unidentified Speaker ABSOLUTELY THE FIGURE IS LARGER THAN THAT. SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT. SOME PEOPLE...
00:17:06 Unidentified Speaker COMPENSATION INSURANCE WOULD ALLOW WORKERS TO CREATE A PRETTY -- PREVIOUS PAY EVEN -- WHAT IS THE...
00:17:23 Unidentified Speaker WE DO NOT HAVE AN OPINION ON THAT. THERE ARE SO MANY INNOVATIVE IDEAS, WE ARE LISTENING TO EVERYTHING,...
00:17:45 Unidentified Speaker FLAT LINING JOB GROWTH OVER THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, WHY IS THAT?
00:17:52 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THAT PART OF THE PROBLEM IS SOMETHING THAT I BROUGHT UP EARLIER. WE ARE UTILIZING VICTIMIZATION...
00:18:47 Unidentified Speaker WHO IS BEING VICTIMIZED?
00:18:50 Unidentified Speaker IT IS JUST ABOUT BEING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE GLOBAL MARKET. VICTIMIZE IS PROBABLY MORE DRAMATIC THAN...
00:19:33 Unidentified Speaker HOW IS THE BABY BOOM AFFECTING THE INVASION OF EMPLOYMENT? ARE THEY HANG ON TO THEIR JOBS LONGER,...
00:21:11 Unidentified Speaker THE BABY BOOM GENERATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, DOESN'T MAKE THE SUBJECT WORSE OR BETTER?
00:21:22 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS VERY INTERESTING THAT PEOPLE LOOK AT THAT QUESTION.
00:21:31 Unidentified Speaker THE ENTIRE QUESTION, I HAVE FOR THE BECAUSE THE LABOUR FORCE ITSELF IS SHRINKING. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT...
00:21:43 Unidentified Speaker EVEN IN THIS RECESSION THERE HAS BEEN SOME JOB AREAS -- WE ARE THERE RIGHT NOW. CLEARLY WE HAVE A SHORTAGE...
00:23:09 Unidentified Speaker THERE IS A GOOD ENOUGH TIME BEFORE THE NUMBERS COME OUT OF THE END OF THE WEEK,, TO TRY TO PUT A NUMBER...
00:25:13 Unidentified Speaker JOB GROWTH FOR IMMIGRATION,
00:25:17 Unidentified Speaker ONCE HEALTH CARE PASSES, THE ADMINISTRATION IS GOING TO LOOK SERIOUSLY AT THEIR RATION THE DATA CONTINUE...
00:26:20 Unidentified Speaker AT THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT BEFORE WE BRING YOU JUST AS WE MAKE SURE THAT...
00:26:51 Unidentified Speaker , HER SPECIALTY IS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING AT THE IMPRESSION OF IT BEING HAD ON STATES MOST OF THE...
00:27:39 Unidentified Speaker A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE OLDER IS PREVENTING YOU HAVE SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE 62 AND
00:28:06 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS THE AFTERMATH OF THE 1982 SUCCESSION.
00:28:34 Unidentified Speaker WHAT DID YOU LEARN TODAY?
00:28:54 Unidentified Speaker I GOT THE SENSE THE ADMINISTRATION WAS COMFORTABLE THAT THEY WERE CLOSE TO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE ADMINISTRATION....
00:29:02 Unidentified Speaker WE HAD A DEALER FROM DETROIT ON FRIDAY THAT BEGAN A CONVERSATION ON WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE WHO ARE...
00:30:08 Unidentified Speaker IS SO OF HIS JAWS , NOTHING ON THE HORIZON RIGHT NOW. I THINK THAT WE MIGHT HAVE TO GET USED TO THE...
00:30:37 Unidentified Speaker THEY BOTH FOR BEING WITH US TODAY. GENTLEMEN, THANK YOU.

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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