Optimism boosted as U.S. unemployment rate dips to 10%
We spent like a trillion dollars to make sure that unemployment didn’t reach 10% and now we’re supposed to be optimistic that the number is DOWN to 10%?
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This puts perspective to the November BLS report.We’re still losing jobs, but the unemployment rate has fallen. Good news!
The unemployment rate fell to 10 percent in November as employers cut the smallest number of jobs since the recession began.
The Labor Department says the economy shed 11,000 jobs last month, an improvement from October’s [...]
I see the trend continuing in the same direction. Taking money out of consumers hands and growing a bloated government even more will only make things worse.Shortly after jobless claims numbers were released, Sen. Russ Feingold issued a statement announcing the introduction of a jobs tax credit bill:
“Today’s jobs report clearly shows we need to do more to help people get back to work. With the unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, the highest since the [...]
Ouch, that smarts.
Wisconsin employers cut 129,600 jobs since October 2008, the steepest year-to-year plunge in 70 years of data.
The state Department of Workforce Development is scheduled report on job losses and unemployment midday Thursday. But preliminary estimates from a state database and historical figures from the [...]
President Obama is now the Alfred E. Neuman of US Politics
AP: Obama, Holder predict conviction in 9/11 case
Ummmm…wasn’t this the same administration who said unemployment wouldn’t go over 8%?
I wonder if this will be another opportunity for Vice President Biden to tell us, after the fact, that the [...]
Anyone who has followed the disaster that is state government finance could hardly have been surprised at this news:
Wisconsin residents should brace for more tax increases and service cuts, based on an analysis that rated the state’s budget predicament among the 10 worst in the country.
The rise in unemployment [...]
