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Feds Send Warning to States on Unemployment Benefits

April 29, 2025 Steve MacDonald

US Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, has drawn a red line for Governors in all fifty states. Illegal Aliens are not eligible for unemployment benefits. Chavez-DeRemer reminded the governors that employment authorization was a prerequisite to securing employment. “Unemployment benefits are not a handout for those in our country illegally,” Chavez-DeRemer said. Compliance with the directive, … Read more

Private-Sector Jobs Went Negative in October

November 6, 2024 Ryan McMaken

According to the most recent report from the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy added only 12,000 payroll jobs during October. This was the smallest month-to-month employment gain in nearly four years. Moreover, total private jobs fell in October by 28,000. This is the worst employment report since 2020, and it reflects an overall downward trend in employment growth … Read more

America Has Fewer Employed Workers than It Did a Year Ago

September 11, 2024 Ryan McMaken

According to the most recent report from the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy added 142,000 jobs during August while the unemployment rate fell slightly to 4.2 percent. Since the highly disappointing July jobs report, media reports on the state of the job market have become far less positive. This report was described by … Read more

Parade of Bankruptcies and Closures

September 10, 2024 Steve MacDonald

You can tell when you’ve got a Democrat President in a bad economy. You don’t hear that much about the rise ein bankruptcies and stores going out of business. There have been a lot of them. The response to the Wuhan Flu killed off a lot of businesses, as did the harm done to the … Read more

Gov Nuisance and The Job Killers – Wage Hike Erases at Least 10,000 Entry Level Positions

June 12, 2024 Steve MacDonald

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it hundreds of times: When the government interferes in the marketplace, bad things happen. Minimum wage mandates are not the least of these worries, but meddlers will meddle and, in the face of facts, still think they know better.

Vermont and New Hampshire: A Tale of Two Unemployment Rates

August 23, 2022August 23, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Both New Hampshire and Vermont have unemployment rates below their pre-fake-pandemic numbers. Reporting for July puts Vermont at 2.1% and New Hampshire at 2.0%. But there’s a critical difference hiding in that reported 0.1%.

New Hampshire Labor Force Exceeds Dec 2019 (Pre-Pandemic) Figures

June 25, 2022 Steve MacDonald

If you were wondering whether New Hampshire was doing something right, this might help you find an answer. The State’s May Jobs data was just released, and unemployment is at a record low. But is it?

Will work for food panhandling spare change

Culture – Unemployed Outside a Wal-Mart that’s Hiring (And sells food) With Sign that says “Will Work for Food”

January 3, 2022January 2, 2022 Steve MacDonald

I work near a Super-Wal-Mart, so I do a bit of shopping there when needed. If you don’t have one near you, it’s a Wal-Mart with a full-size grocery store inside. Another thing you might not have is unemployed panhandlers holding cardboard signs looking for work or money.

Vax Mandates Will Make Millions ‘Go Galt!’ (sort of) and Was that the Democrat’s Plan or a Huge Miscalculation?

November 5, 2021November 4, 2021 Auntie Vaquser

Airlines are blaming hundreds of flight cancellations on the weather, but it’s actually the climate. The Mandatory Vaccination climate. Pilots are walking away. Going, Galt (sort of), but it’s not just them. And you have to wonder if the Dems ever saw this coming?

Converging Downturns

October 14, 2021October 14, 2021 NITZAKHON

I apologize as this is longer than I like to normally post, but there are points to be hammered home here. The hour is late and the situation is dire…

Health care nurses doctors walking away Original Photo by Luis Melendez on Unsplash

New York State Tells “Frontline” Workers, No Jab? – No Job, AND No Unemployment Benefits

October 1, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Those advocating mandatory vaccination are the problem. These people are dangerous. Yes, because they want you to introduce a chemical into your body you do not want but more so because they want the government to have the power to do it or wreck your life if you refuse.

Real Life Example of Othering the UnVaxxed – Democrats Denying them Unemployment…

September 26, 2021 Skip

The Democrat’s Inner Totalitarian selves have exploded out of their chests like the alien in the Ridley Scott movie. Take Biden’s Emergency Order that all staff in nursing homes have to have The Jab to work there.

Why I Don’t Believe the NH Media When They Say We Are “Bed Short” With “Not enough Staff”

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Skip

For a couple of weeks now, all we’ve been hearing is that NH hospitals are getting overloaded with patients – and using “COVID” rather broadly. WMUR has certainly been doing its job on the WuFlu Panic Porn front with breathless announcements, updates, and anecdotal updates from our “health providers.”

The North Country Chronicles – “I’ve Been Sent Out Here from Seattle. This Place Is Too White, And We Have to Shake Sh!t Up”

July 20, 2021 Op-Ed

Back in March the Manager and all but one employee walked out of a West Lebanon store, and I was asked to run it day-to-day until a new staff could be installed. I jumped at the opportunity.

Democrat Rep Rosemarie Rung Tries to Crap on Gov. Sununu’s Economic Parade…

July 2, 2021July 1, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Merrimack, New Hampshire Democrat Rosemarie Rung says things that are a bit out there, which is great for us. If you need a post topic in a pinch, see what wingnut Rosie Rung Tweeted.

Data Point: Both Death and Unemployment Rates Higher In Lockdown States

June 3, 2021 Skip

“Nine of the 10 states with the lowest unemployment rates are led by Republicans. The exception is Wisconsin whose Supreme Court last May invalidated Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’s lockdown.”

So, Sununu goes along with Sasse’s Stupid Idea about Unemployment “Incentives”?

May 20, 2021 Skip

US Senator Ben Sasse (“Stupid Idea: “Sasse Introduces Legislation to Convert Boosted Unemployment Benefits to ‘Signing Bonus’ “) is all over about turning the current Federal $300 weekly unemployment bonus into a “signing bonus” if those on the public dole got a job (as opposed to just doing the Funcation deal as that (and the … Read more

Maskhole Gov. Charlie Baker Signals Plan to Continue Behaving Like an Idiot Democrat

May 14, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is a heated contest with Vermont Governor Phil Scott for most Democrat-Republican governor. This has the odd effect of making left-leaning New Hampshire Governor Sununu look responsible, a goal to which Baker appears committed.

Data Point – NH is Back? Or is it? By

May 2, 2021 Skip

From mid-April: …The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for March 2021 was 3% — a 0.3% decrease from February, New Hampshire Employment Security reported Tuesday. The March 2020 seasonally adjusted rate was 2.7%. New Hampshire’s unemployment rate boomed more than 17% last year after the pandemic hit but has since recovered and is now among the … Read more