Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Top 2% – $130 Billion
99’ers – $0 and no jobs (not even a lump of coal)
Keith Olbermann’s special comment on the President’s betrayal of the 99ers appears on the sidebar and after this article
It appears that President Obama is declaring victory in getting a bill passed that assures the richest 2% of [...]
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Friday, January 8th, 2010
from bls.gov
press release
Transmission of material in this release is embargoed USDL-09-1583
until 8:30 a.m. (EST) Friday, January 8, 2010
Technical information:
Household data: (202) 691-6378 * cpsinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/cps
Establishment data: (202) 691-6555 [...]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
from bloomberg.com
by David G. Blanchflower
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama held a jobs summit last week. It surely was a coincidence that unemployment figures released the day after showed the U.S. jobless rate fell in November.
True, unemployment did decline in July too, but only to increase in August, September and October. [...]
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
from nytimes.com
By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
In the strongest jobs report since the recession began, the government reported Friday that the nation’s employers had all but stopped shedding jobs in November, taking some of the pressure off of President Obama to come up with a jobs creation program.
The Labor Department reported Friday that the [...]
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
from bloomberg.com
By Nicholas Johnston
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama will show the limits of his ability to attack unemployment as he hosts a job- creation summit at the White House today.
The forum will assemble economists, union heads and business leaders such as Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Mountain View, California-based [...]
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
from www.voanews.com
By Michael Bowman
Washington
The White House says America’s employment picture is worse than the Obama administration had anticipated just a few months ago. The somber admission follows the latest jobless report showing the highest unemployment rate the United States has seen in more than 25 years.
U.S. unemployment jumped a half percent [...]
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
-25 below
Car won’t start.
Need to take care of business so I bundle up with several layers of clothing and prepare to make my trek to what I have to do. On the hunt for work.
It wouldn’t be so bad if there weren’t SO MANY others in front and behind me looking as well. Heard yesterday [...]
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Since I am out of a job after 31 years with the same company, I find this an enlightening article and post it here to share with all of my fellow job-hunters. Read on:
New jobs can be found, even in a recession
Experts: Assess, plan, network
5 tips for the hunt:
1. Make finding a job your new [...]
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