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• Real unemployment rate is far higher than the headlines

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 775
  Filed under: Economy According to recent reports, the unemployment rate fell from 10.2% to 10% . But is unemployment really falling? Although it seems like toting up the numbers should be fairly straightforward, it turns out to be a complicated calculation. There are several inherent difficulties in calculating ...
  3 days ago

• Holiday jobs highlight underemployment crisis

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 775
  Filed under: Economy First the good news: According to the U..S Department of Labor Statistics, the November jobless rate fell to 10%, a 0.2% improvement over October, when unemployment hit its highest level since 1983. Better yet, according to the Kronos Retail Labor Index , 3.87% percent of job applications ...
  1 week ago

• The Real Unemployment Numbers

  
  Main Street — Authority: 132
  The REAL unemployment rate:The U.S. unemployment numbers are out today, and most headlines will show that the U.S. unemployment rate in November was 10.0 percent, down from 10.2 percent in October. That number is depressingly large, but even that under-counts the true number of unemployed. For instance, it doesn’t ...
  1 week ago

• Hurray For TARP

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  The New York Times Jackie Calmes relays the Congressional Oversight Panel’s audit of the Troubled Asset Relief Program: “Even so,” the panel concluded, “there is broad consensus that the TARP was an important part of a broader government strategy that stabilized the U.S. financial system by renewing the ...
  1 week ago

• A fun way to determine if youre really unemployed

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 695
  Filed under: Career , Recession As the Federal Reserve warns that it could be another five or six years before the job market returns to normal, determining if youre unemployed and therefore eligible for unemployment benefits is probably going to affect many more people in the coming years. Determining whether or ...
  1 week ago

• The real unemployment rate

  
  Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck — Authority: 116
  Last week I read an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal called Working Two Jobs and Still Underemployed . The piece highlights a growing disconnect between government-provided labor statistics and the reality on the street. You: How so? It starts with the fact that if you’re working you’re not ...
  1 week ago

• Unemployment Drops To 10%, Job Losses Lowest Of Recession

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  Nobody’s signing “Happy Days Are Here Again,” but any significant downward movement in the unemployment rate is reason for some early holiday cheer. And there’s more good news beyond this. I’ll share a chart that shows this after the numbers. From WSJ : read more
  1 week ago

• Job Summit Will Not Address Fictional Jobs “Created or Saved”

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 657
  As a corollary to my previous post I must note what will also not be addressed at the WH jobs summit today – all those fictional jobs ‘created or saved’ : The Obama administration claims that its $787 billion economic stimulus program has “created or saved” 640,329 jobs across the country, with more to ...
  1 week ago

• Jobs Summit Day: 2.4 Million New People On Emergency Unemployment Compensation

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 657
  The Obama administration is going to put on a show today for America. It is going to attempt to convince us that they are doing something about the abysmal jobs situation. It will be nothing but theatre and stage craft. Since the liberal stimulus bill was passed in February 2009, the Unemployment and Underemployment ...
  1 week ago

• Economy Still Shedding Jobs

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 657
  We have sadly not hit bottom on the jobs situation. This week’s jobs numbers might seem to have some green shoots to the casual (math challenged) liberal news media reporter. But the news is indeed really bad. This week the first time jobless claims did not change – did not grow and did not shrink. Might seem ...
  3 weeks ago

• Challenges for Women Who Support Family

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 576
  IA new study explores the issues a woman confronts when she is the primary support for the family. According to a University of Missouri scholar, female breadwinners experience a range of emotions and challenges ranging from control, independence, ambition, pressure, worry, guilt and resentment. Dr. Rebecca ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wall Street job losses are surprisingly low, and firms eye record profits

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 775
  Main Street is reeling from mounting job losses and a grim outlook by Federal Reserve officials. Wall Street, on the other hand, may be enjoying a sharp rebound. On Tuesday, a report by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli forecast that the number of vanishing finance jobs may be far lower than ...
  4 weeks ago

• The China Syndrome 2009

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 477
  I am typically reluctant to merely link to articles which I find extremely compelling and newsworthy. I thoroughly enjoy referencing other’s works while adding my own thoughts and perspectives. That said, every once in a while an article comes along which truly deserves to be highlighted in its entirety for its ...
  4 weeks ago

• The average American family must look at the current stock market rally as some kind of cruel joke.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 540
  We have people anxiously waiting for government funds or paychecks to clear at the end of the month so they can wait outside of a Wal-Mart shopping center at midnight to buy food once their funds clear. We have nearly 36 million Americans on food stamps and another 27 million unemployed or underemployed. If this is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Fake Liberal Stimulus Bill Leads To Fake Jobs “Saved/Created”

  
  The Strata-Sphere — Authority: 657
  I don’t have the stomach to go over the whole mess again with the fake stimulus bill the liberals crammed down our throats (along with its massive debt). I’ll let others explain: Ed Morrissey notes this great news piece in San Diego with Barbara Boxer and the ONE real job created from millions of dollars in ...
  4 weeks ago

• New U.S. export: labor

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 675
  Filed under: India , China , Brazil Now that its reached 10.2%, the unemployment rate is higher than its been in 26 years. That puts plenty of people on the hunt for work, especially since the unemployment rate doesnt reflect everyone whos been affected by the recession, such as those who have been unemployed ...
  4 weeks ago

• Trumka to Launch Jobs Initiative Tomorrow

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 656
        Tomorrow morning, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will announce a major new initiative to create and save jobs. (Watch the live webcast at www.aflcio.org/createjobs starting at 9 a.m.) Trumka will be part of a noted panel in “Spotlight on the Jobs Crisis” at the Economic Policy Institute ...
  4 weeks ago

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