White House economic adviser addresses stalled labor market

Jared Bernstein, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, discusses the latest job numbers with CNN's Poppy Harlow and says that the US labor market has stalled.
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    1. @Rino Ponce Seriously? CNN has the actual death toll & daily cases on a graphic sitting next to this interview. As they do on most stories.

    2. @Rino Ponce Okay, genius.

      You’re commenting on a CNN clip with the daily & total covid stats ON IT but you’re not watching it?

      DYD.

    3. Yaur yaur. You must be watching another program possibly in another dimension? Nobody said it’s a great jobs report. There has been a small net gain in jobs on the month.

  1. I realize one day, one important bill at a time. Don’t forget Social Security recipients are drowning with not enough income to pay our bills and everyday purchases. More than 50% are living on straight SSI, SSDI for survival. HELP SOON PLEASE!!!

    1. @John Smith I lived under less than 20K a year raising my son alone. Since the 70s. I worked at a aerospace plant in CT and laid off just 6 months from my first tier of pension. I began as a rookie in Real Estate not making much over 20K in a downed market. So I moved to Florida for a bigger shocker. They had their minimum wage at $3.75 back then. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Look I did what I could to stay afloat. Took Life insurance that cheated me out of 5K out of $7,800 I put into It . I don’t trust the industry anymore. After that it was just hit of miss. I finally passed the Florida Financial Brokers exam to work for a company that bellied up in 2008. Just a series of bad luck. I even took accounting operations and have a 4.0 GPA and still by that time it was about 38 years down the pike and I decided to just take my SSDI since I had qualifiers. Let the younger ones fight for the jobs that were available. This is how it was for me. I wished I could go back to 21 again. Too late now I am lucky I have $20 left over after all my bills a month. You should have been there you would know.

    2. @Anne Parent ugh I’m sorry. Pensions are so archaic. The 401k is so superior and it is your money off the bat

    3. @Dustin V every company I have ever worked at offered a match and even if they do not the Roth IRA is a great tool foe lower and middle income families and individuals to build wealth. I still have 30 years to go. I own three businesses I will work by choice until I die. Warren Buffet still goes into the office every day. I offer a 6% match to all my employees and I brow beat them into participating and if they truly cannot afford it which was only one(a single mom) I gave her a 50$ a week raise so she could participate.

    4. @John Smith congratulations, I guess? Things went well in your life. Not everyone gets that lucky. Sometimes things are out of people’s control … my genetic heart condition. The logical path isn’t always a possible path for us all.

  2. GOP didn’t need bipartisanship when they pushed Trumps 1 trillion dollar tax breaks for the rich. Throw in higher taxes for the rich with the Pandemic relief package and its paid for.🤔

  3. She does make a good point regarding tieing unemployment insurance to vaccination rates. Keep Unemploment going until it’s considered safe enough to go full bore on jobs..

  4. in real life ,how can the inflation rate be at 2% to most people , most of everything from daily to fuel have gone upfrom 10% to 20% !Even for rental gone up from strip mall to household .

    1. @David Eby Such stupidity, i’m just so fedup w/ these nīévèty attitudes in the comment section. But after a few times you asound ignorant, lazy, an foolishly seriously a fools’ error

    2. @Mae Speaks On It Don’t blame Pres.Trump he put us on track and we had the best economy in 60 years before the pandemic. You people voted in Creepy Joe and we’ll have to start all over again when The Democrats are done.

  5. I believe instead of pass out U-check or extending the period to a lazy man (poppy), (bobbi), let’s do a infrastructure to rebuilt the country with the unemployed.

  6. The economy can’t simply stop in its tracks and start churning comfortably along once again when everyone is vaccinated. We are in a deep hole

  7. Great journalism. Interrupt your interview subject every time he starts to answer a question, defend yourself for asking the question like you’re a debater.

  8. I’m sorry I don’t understand. An American news program talking about economic issues not rage tweets?????

  9. What happened to the giving monthly stimulus during this PANDEMIC? That was the talk during the campaigns.!

    1. Bernie would have forced the government to give monthly survival checks and healthcare for all if he had won, but the MSM told everyone that Biden was “more electable,” to keep the wealthy and poor in their respective places. We can’t expect the same administration that bailed out the banks during the last recession to save everyone during this depression. This plan isn’t bold enough, Biden isn’t FDR unfortunately. 😕

  10. This interview is awful. She keeps cutting him off before he can finish the point. And if he says something she doesn’t agree with, she cuts him off. CNN you can do better than that. Let the man say his point than rebuttal.

    1. Totally!! Freaking frustrating and incredibly unprofessional! They should learn from real interviewers from Bloomberg

  11. How are you going to mean test the stimulus when you dont know people’s current situation? Count 2019’s tax return before the pandemic?

  12. Everything Biden is involved in will stall, if he thinks $1400 is going to appease the masses good luck, he can shove his stimulus, but I feel for the people who really need help.

  13. There are many of us who are making LESS than we otherwise would. We are still employed, but have fewer clients or fewer hours, which means that the checks are helpful to everyone in that situation. I teach private music lessons and have had my student roster drop by 25% since having to go remote last March. $2000 doesn’t make up for my shortfall, but it sure as heck helps.

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