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Year on year there are still 2.2 million people marginally attached to the work force. This is the same number as May of 2009 so zero improvement on that front. Discouraged workers—those who’ve stopped looking because they believe there is no work, actually rose from May of 2009 to May of 2010 by another 291,000.
I’m struggling to find a Press Release from even one elected New Hampshire democrat in DC on the expiration of unemployment benefits after the entire congress went home for the holiday weekend without passing one. By all accounts no one was blocking, stopping, or stalling, it just didn’t get done. But what of the earth … Read more
Something you won’t find in your daily broadsheet or on any of the more fashionable cable news channels is a paper presented by a prominent geologist at the 4th International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago. In it, Dr. Don Easterbrook warns us of imminent global cooling. (Oh boy!) I’ll see your warming and raise … Read more
This months Bureau of labor statistics (BLS)report issued every month on the first Friday (at about 8:30 am), reads like there is a positive trend afoot, except that 15.3 million Americans (and some unidentified number of illegal immigrants) are not employed. They make no mention of unemployed illegals. I just tossed that in because it will piss off … Read more
With With reported unemployment flat, we must now wait to see where the state data comes in for the same month. (not due for another week). If the states are still shedding jobs, the national data will begin to appear meaningless which is unfortunate. The unemployment situation is political as a barometer of measuring how … Read more