The Definition of Economic Insanity
The Foundry
In January 2008, the United States economy employed 138.1 million people and the unemployment rate stood at 4.9%. But the powers in Washington thought deficit spending could boost a slowing economy, so Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) passed and President George Bush signed [...]
Officials in Rosemead and other Valley cities said they had never heard of a ousted councilman collecting unemployment.
"I thought you serve at the pleasure of the people who elected you. I've never heard of the governor of California receiving unemployment, or the president of the United States receiving unemployment,'" [...]
Adrienne Royer on her generation’s economic problems:
Very few people really think about the financial consequences of young Americans. We’re facing higher unemployment rates since older, more experienced workers are willing to take lower-paying jobs. We also are entering life with a lot more debt than our parents could ever [...]
Just not in the White House:
The community I represent in Cleveland, Ohio, is suffering from massive unemployment, record home foreclosures, and small business failures. People are losing their jobs, their health care, their homes, their savings, their investments, and their retirement security. The middle class is gravely threatened. What [...]
American Thinker has some interesting correlations on unemployment depending on who is control of Congress. It’s worth a read! Guaranteed to make a dihard liberal’s head explode. Granted it’s from back in September, but you can fill in the rest of the upswing on [...]
The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development released October unemployment figures for the state of Tennessee and Hamilton County on Monday.
In Hamilton County, unemployment rose slightly by 0.1% between September and October to 8.8%. 14,450 workers filed for unemployment in the month of October out of a labor [...]
Rates Increase in 39 Counties, Decrease in 42, Remain the Same in 15
NASHVILLE – Tennessee’s unemployment rate for October was 10.5 percent, unchanged from the September rate of 10.5 percent. The United States’ unemployment rate for the month of October was 10.2 percent.
County non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for October 2009, [...]
More and more soldiers returning from war are finding themselves in a battle for civilian jobs.
New numbers from the Tennessee Department of Labor show unemployment stayed at a consistent 10.5% from September to October, though it continues to exceed the national average of 10.2%.
More than 100,000 [...]
Gov. Phil Bredesen says another tax hike to shore up Tennessee’s unemployment trust fund appears unavoidable.
Asked after budget hearings with the state Labor and Workforce Development Department on Wednesday whether the increase will be necessary, the governor said: “I don’t think there’s any question.”
Seasonally Adjusted Rate Unchanged from September
NASHVILLE – Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced today Tennessee’s unemployment rate for October was 10.5 percent, unchanged from the September rate of 10.5 percent.
“While the national unemployment rate increased to 10.2 percent, Tennessee’s unemployment rate held steady at [...]
From the State of Tennessee:
Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development James Neeley announced today Tennessee’s unemployment rate for October was 10.5 percent, unchanged from the September rate of 10.5 percent.
[...]A couple of folks have asked for this article that I read on the radio awhile back so I’m just going to post it for anyone else who might be interested. It regards potential increases in unemployment as well as unemployment comparisons.
Here are a couple of highlights from the article [...]
Washington Post: Reid 'optimistic' about getting 60 votes on health bill
By IAN TALLEY
Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday they would put off debate on a big climate-change bill until spring, in a sign of weakening political will to tackle a long-term environmental issue at a time of high unemployment and [...]
From the Wall Street Journal:
Double-digit unemployment drove Ronald Reagan’s disapproval ratings in October 1982 up to a record high 54%. It was only when unemployment dropped to 7.3%, roughly two years later, that he was able to win a landslide victory over Democratic challenger Walter Mondale in the 1984 [...]
The World Bank says so:
Stubbornly high joblessness threatens to trigger loan defaults and drag on consumption next year, hobbling a U.S. economy struggling to rebound from recession, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Wednesday.
Zoellick warned that the U.S. unemployment rate, which jumped to a 26-year high of 10.2 percent [...]
With a recession and unemployment at more than 10 percent, some people’s bills are difficult for them to pay. But more than 600,000 Tennesseans could get help paying their telephone bill, but they’re not.
Millions and millions of federal funds are available to thousands of Tennesseans who qualify, but [...]
Newscoma thinks he must be stopped:
Now, we could talk about Kelsey all day long, but I return back to the issue at hand. As democrats, we need every seat we can get right now. We are looking at redistricting, our state has 10.5 percent unemployment and we need folks [...]
“I think anytime unemployment is high and people are concerned about their jobs, the economy, incumbents on both sides of the aisle need to be concerned,” Republican Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker said Friday. “What people care most about is food, clothing and shelter. Period. …. When food, clothing [...]
Matthew Yglesias bust some uncomfortable truths:
Instead of saying to people whose UI benefits are about to expire “just kidding, here’s an extension” we could say “you’ll keep getting checks but you need to show up at such-and-such a place and pick up trash in parks.” This would be somewhat [...]
