unemployment

Data Point – Obama’s employment policies still failing the American worker

May 4, 2013

He owns this, not Bush. He has no one else to blame but himself. And the people I feel most badly for are the twenty-somethings – they voted for this incompetent who has now set their lives onto the slow track. (H/T: Instapundit)

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Reality Alert to the Ivory Tower:

April 27, 2013

Emphasis mine: On Tuesday, New Hampshire adjunct professors stood outside Manchester Community College to protest the limit. Some said the realization that the health care law they once supported is being used against them was a harsh reality to swallow. Craig Lange is a member of the team that has been negotiating for a contract [ Read more ]

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The Obama Bell-Palsy Employment Curve

April 6, 2013

A booming, and initially perceived, oddity emanated from the White House like a streaking tie-dyed progressive woman jaunting across the south lawn with the vapors after having just caught a glimpse of The One standing in the Rose Garden doing…well… nothing as usual, but closer inspection reveals the tie-dyed streaking woman was just Chris Matthews [ Read more ]

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Sequester Will Destroy 170 Million Jobs

March 11, 2013

I confess that I missed this (until now). Democrat Maxine Waters (D- Doh!), relieved that she is not in prison for all the corruption she has engaged in while elected to the US House of representatives, is making up for that by just being herself. “We don’t need to be having something like sequestration that’s going to [ Read more ]

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Data Point – Unemployment rate EVEN with Obama’s Stimulus

March 8, 2013

(Image H/T: AEIdeas) Drop outs from the Labor force at all time high: 89,304,000 The Corner: Were the unemployment rate today measured against the same workforce participation as when President Obama took office four years ago, the unemployment rate today would be 10.7 percent.

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The Obama Recovery Is So Darn Good…

February 3, 2013

The recovery is so damn good that more people stopped looking for work than found a job in January. Around 157,000 became employed while 169,000 people left the labor force. Since Obama came to office 8.5 million Americans have left the labor force. That means that there are 8.5 million fewer jobs in the country [ Read more ]

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Seven “Firsts” for the US Economy

January 1, 2013

From Wynton Hall at Breitbart…an end of year (or beginning of year) list of Mr. Obama’s new normal. This is his America, and that of Democrats who have had a majority control of the US government for six years now. Mr. Hall calls these “seven firsts for the US economy.” 1. All-time record annual average [ Read more ]

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Kids say the darndest things…

December 30, 2012

Friend of mine told me she was eating breakfast with her 13-year-old granddaughter and asked her, “What day is the 20th of February?” Granddaughter said “It’s President’s Day!” (She’s a smart kid.) So my friend asks “What does President’s Day mean?” and she was waiting for something about Washington or Lincoln… etc. Granddaughter replied, “President’s [ Read more ]

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Obama Promises – when does this expiration date come up for renewal?

December 21, 2012

Pray tell, if he can’t keep his promise of better results on unemployment on a massive $1 Trillion Stimulus, what is his promise on the newest $50 Billion one he wants as part of the Fiscal Cliff? (H/T: AEI)

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Chasing the Equality Rabbit Down the Democrat’s Debt Hole

November 6, 2012

Even if it does not appear obvious, even to the casual observer, once government gets started on something it is difficult to get it to stop. So where exactly do we expect the Democrats notions of state managed economic leveling to take us? Their talk of economic equality centers on the idea that the government [ Read more ]

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“Obama-Care To Kill More Jobs as Employers Struggle to Stay in Business”

October 25, 2012

One provision of Obama-Care requires employers to recognize anyone who works 30 hours a week as a full time employee. The pertinent section (1513) of the law reads as follows: (4) Full-time employee (A) In general The term “full-time employee” means, with respect to any month, an employee who is employed on average at least [ Read more ]

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Guest Post: Mike Johnson – “New Hampshire, Tear Down This Firewall”

October 21, 2012

New Hampshire, Tear Down This Firewall Mike Johnson mnosnhoj@comcast.net 10/21/12 You have a choice, New Hampshire, an important choice, a life-style choice. Like our motto says, you can “Live Free or Die,” a free self-reliant citizen of New Hampshire, proud of yourself and proud of your state and your country. Or you can “Live Dependent [ Read more ]

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Data Point – People added / NOT added to the Labor force since 1/2009

October 15, 2012

Obama – he’s managed the economy oh so well! (H/T: Powerline)

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President Obama: fewer Americans employed than when he started

October 7, 2012

Which results in this: Change that we were not hoping for… (H/T: Americans for Prosperity)

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How About Those Jobs Numbers?

October 6, 2012

The Bureau of Laboring Statistics announced that the economy created 114,000 jobs last month. If we ignore the fact that this is not even enough to address population growth (so the lower unemployment percent of 7.8% actually means bad things), and just look at job growth averages, Democrats might want to ignore this report and [ Read more ]

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The Dinner Table

October 5, 2012

Americans for Prosperity – they’re on our side and Democrats hate them which makes them that much more awesome–has released its most recent Ad, this one in response to the ridiculous jobs report that shows unemployment down when the economy isn’t even producing enough jobs to account for population growth. Here’s the Video – “The [ Read more ]

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Jobs Vs. Food Stamps Obama Economy Throw-Down

September 21, 2012

One Graph to rule them all? I think this says something about what six trillion in new Democrat-debt buys you. Fewer jobs, shrinking work force participation, and more people in need of assistance. That’s why we call Obama the Food Stamp President. He can’t fix it from the inside unless by fix you mean make [ Read more ]

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Data Point – The Single most Accurate Indicator of Labor Market Health

September 14, 2012

Unleashing Democrat policies and fomenting Obamanomics results in a plague like disease seizing upon the Labor Market. The symptoms are oozing unemployment and fetid labor participation (i.e., how many people are actually trying to get a job). From the Mercatus Center, George Mason University: The release of the June labor market data marks the third [ Read more ]

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Real Unemployment at 19%…

September 8, 2012

Wynton Hall at Breitbart.com wrote this. I’m just sharing it. Consider the following 11 economic facts: 1. When you include the underutilized labor figure with the eight million Americans who have lost hope altogether and stopped looking for a job, real unemployment now stands at just under 19 percent. 2. If the labor force were [ Read more ]

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Passing the Buck on Welfare Work Requirements

August 20, 2012

Waving the job requirement for welfare seems like a natural extension of the Obama Economic plan. Make sure there are no jobs, keep people dependent on government. And now he can blame the states…who are suffering under every other yoke he has placed upon them in three in half years. Hey, maybe he’ll send Biden [ Read more ]

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Are You Better Off or “We are the 56%”

August 20, 2012

Gallup reports that 56% of Swing State voters do not believe they are better off than they were four years ago, rising from an Obama low of 54% but not yet nearing the Oct/Nov 2011 high of 60%. A majority of those claiming they are not better off blame Mr. Obama, but not by a [ Read more ]

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Taxpayers Now Out 25 Billion

August 15, 2012

The Government Buy-up and Bail-out of General Motors saved union jobs while arbitrarily eliminating tens of thousands of non-union jobs at dealerships, put taxpayers on the hook, and at present will cost us at least 25 Billion in losses as the value of the automaker “we own” a part of continues to decline. Had they [ Read more ]

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How To Keep An Economy Down..

August 15, 2012

It is hard to beat the annual burden of government regulation for keeping the economy down. It’s also a great way to keep unemployment up. If Businesses have to spend more money to comply with regulations there is less to invest in the business or more employees. And what’s even better is that this…(see chart [ Read more ]

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These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things…Obama Is Responsible For

July 6, 2012

This is too good not to borrow and re-post. Dana Loesch–whom we saw at RightOnline this year–reports on the most recent Obama distraction–Romney..something something…and follows with a reminder that most of Obama’s defenders are funded by a guy with way more money (Soros) than Romney. She then provides a list of links to things about [ Read more ]

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The View From Underwater…or…About Those Obama Job Creation Numbers…

June 12, 2012

The economy needs to create at least 150,000 new jobs every month just to keep the ship from sinking any further (and the ship is already in pretty deep). That 150,000 keeps us where we are, wherever that may be. With the lowest labor participation rate in decades here is not so great. But Democrats [ Read more ]

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