Workers who can’t find full-time work, or forced to take huge pay cuts to land work, are not signs of forward momentum. – IBD
Post Tagged with: "unemployment rate"
October 3, 2012 06:47
Hope and Change? Real Unemployment Reaches 20% In 7 Colorado Counties
Whereas the unemployment rate doesn’t include people who are out of work, but have given up looking for a job, the “Not Employed Rate” gives a fuller picture of the dire economic situation many Coloradans are currently facing. – The Colorado Observer
September 28, 2012 08:41
Report Card on Obama and His Recovery
How much more of this incompetence will the American people take? Hopefully not much.
September 10, 2012 05:50
FED Action Delays Retirement – Means Fewer Jobs for Young Workers
There is not a chance in hell that younger workers are going to prosper looking at this chart. As a result, future tax revenues will be less than planned. The economy will lag well below potential. – Bruce Kasting
September 9, 2012 15:02
Obama’s Dismal Jobs Record
The only reason the unemployment rate edged down slightly in August was that fewer people looked for work and thus no longer count as unemployed. … we are in the slowest recovery in 70 years, and job creation has not recovered since the recession began in 2007.
August 21, 2012 08:50
Hitchhiker’s Recovery
Our so-called “recovery” is slower than Japan’s during its Lost Decade.
August 20, 2012 07:51
Bernanke’s Dual Mandate Trap – Inflation or Unemployment?
As Fed’s two previous QE’s have demonstrated, due to the structure of current global banking and financial system, QE has only mostly benefited banks to hoard cheap capital from the government to speculate in commodities and stocks to get better returns, rather than circulating and lending to business and consumers like banks are supposed to.
August 17, 2012 14:24
Unemployment Up in 44 States; New York Unemployment Highest Since 1983; No Improvement Nationally in 2012; Looking Ahead: What’s Next?
Not only is the unemployment rate artificially low, but it is no longer falling. And since it has stalled, we had three anemic retail sales reports followed by a reported rise last month.
August 9, 2012 09:27
Obama’s suicidal jobs policies – false hope and no change
Obama said if he doesn’t get it done in three years it’s going to be a one term presidency. We’d all be better off if he resigned now. We can’t stand much more of his “jobs focus.” Can we afford four more years of economic suicide?
August 6, 2012 08:10
Employment Rate In The United States Is Lower Than It Was During The Last Recession
195,000 fewer Americans were working in July than in June. But somehow that works out to “163,000 new jobs” in July.
