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[0:19] ..." Well we have a very very you know worried workforce. Unemployment went up again last month 29 point 7%. We've now lost just under seven million jobs since this recession began. And workers have taken hits in there. Income bulls because it is there hours have been reduced and leave. And about half the labor force experience. Either a wage freeze or wage reductions so we have. A worried and very very strained workforce at the moment."...
[1:03] ..." Well well we're in deep trouble in the labor market my hope is we've turned the corner. And that this year coming forward will be one of starting to see steady growth"...
[0:00]" Working is no easy job these days when you consider five million Americans have been out of work for more than six months this according to. The globe. Of this report also reflects what Tom -- hand is finding he's the co director of the institute for work. And employment research at MIT's Sloan school of management."
[0:19]" Well we have a very very you know worried workforce. Unemployment went up again last month 29 point 7%. We've now lost just under seven million jobs since this recession began. And workers have taken hits in there. Income bulls because it is there hours have been reduced and leave. And about half the labor force experience. Either a wage freeze or wage reductions so we have. A worried and very very strained workforce at the moment."
[0:51]" I know you have the the advantage of of looking back in the years -- looking forward. -- we compare with maybe last year and what are you looking forward to next year."
[1:03]" Well well we're in deep trouble in the labor market my hope is we've turned the corner. And that this year coming forward will be one of starting to see steady growth in jobs. That if we reform our labor policies and start to bring workers into this economic recovery. We might even see some very very modest. Improvements in income and put us on a course. Two really rebuild the middle. Last but that so. That's a long road ahead but we've got to start down that road this year."
[1:38]" Which labor policy specifically would you like to see changed."
[1:42]" Well first thing we have to do its get on with reforming labor laws so that workers to regain their voice -- work and have an opportunity to build a bargaining power they need to rebuild the middle class. Secondly we've got to make sure that the stimulus investments that we made. To create jobs. Are turning into good jobs good jobs for people. Across the labor force people in our. Communities who have been excluded from construction jobs need to have access to some of the infrastructure. And residential repair job. People and the kind of -- green economy investments. In that area need to make sure that these that are well trained well paid and sustainable. Job so that's. A second dimension and then. We've got to get on with continuing to rebuild enforcement of our labor policies in a modern ways that. Keeps the economy moving."
[2:42]" It may seem like a minor thing but I know a whole lot of people that that don't get a lunch break anymore and their bosses say what you want a lunch break it -- have to work a longer -- than eight hours what happened to the eight hour day with a lunch break."
[2:55]" Well maybe on this Labor Day we can't remember. That that we celebrate the -- date. And that's what I mean about making sure that we enforcer -- labor laws and that we stop. Stressing out the work force. In the ways many people are experiencing today."
[3:15]" Compound from MIT thank you so much as always."
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