Tag: Unemployment
Unemployment Drops Below 8%
Good News! The U.S. economy added 114,000 jobs in September, with the unemployment rate falling from 8.1% to 7.8%, according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
New Unemployment Numbers Out
115,000 jobs were added to the US economy last month and its now a case of he said/he said.
New Jobs Numbers Better Than Expected
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the unemployment rate decreased to 8.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job growth was widespread in the private sector, with large employment gains in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and manufacturing. Government employment changed little over the month.
A Note To John Carney — 14 Million Unemployed Are More Important Than the Deficit
Since Representative Carney is using his time in Congress to sign bi-partisan letters to the Deficit Supercommittee to Go Big in cutting the deficit, I thought I’d use my platform here to remind him of what the genuine crisis is right now.
The Achilles Heel(s) of Job Creation in 2011
ADP has released its January payroll data today, showing an estimated addition of 187,000 private sector jobs. The usual suspects are forecasting that this Friday’s Labor Department employment number for January will be 140,000. Neither of these numbers shows anywhere near adequate job growth, but it is some growth.
Mad Skillz Might Not Be Enuff
“. . . there’s a price to be paid for the excesses of the past decade; that the U.S. economy was profoundly out of whack before the recession hit; and that we need major changes in the kind of work people do.” – James Surowiecki in The New Yorker
John Shadegg Shouldn’t Drink and Talk
I saw Rep. John Shadegg(R-AZ) on Morning Joe on Tuesday morning. He made a complete fool of himself. First, he says (and then doubles down), on his belief that unemployed people save their money, rather than spending it. Then he can’t get the gumption to criticize Sarah Palin as he evades a direct question over […]
Hire the Qualified
There is a new movement that has come from some of the people active in the Delaware social media scene to preempt some of the awful discrimination that is now facing the unemployed and others. In an economy that now has 5 unemployed workers for every open job, some employers have started putting disqualifiers in […]
Republicans Try To Deny Good Jobs Report
There was finally a good jobs report this month, showing a gain of 162,000 jobs in the month of March. It’s the best jobs report in 3 years, giving further evidence of the beginning of a recovery. Republicans tried to get in front of the good news by denying it’s good news: The RNC immediately […]
NRO Investigates Black Unemployment
The NRO decided to do an online symposium on black unemployment after one of their economists wrote an article which concluded that discrimination could play a role in the higher unemployment numbers. In response, NRO hosted an online “symposium” for “some economics and civil-rights analysts to share their thoughts on the topic.” Their conclusion was […]
Bunning Relents – Our Long National Nightmare Is Over
Jim Bunning found a flicker of compassion inside of his cold, dead heart: Under increasing pressure from Democrats and members of his own party, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) Tuesday night abandoned his one-man filibuster of a one-month extension to unemployment benefits and other programs. In the end Bunning agreed to a deal allowing him one […]
Another Dispatch From The GOP Brain Trust
Fox News has figured out how to sell the GOP jobs plan. Cut wages! Now, with its Republican-inspired “Where are the jobs?” campaign in full swing, Fox has gone “on the job hunt” with a “new” idea for increasing employment: cutting the minimum wage. Jumping off from an op-ed by Washington Post editorial board member […]
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