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Twitter has reduced historical memory to minutes, but think back to what had the political class atwitter last week. Back then the air filled with worry on the left that Barack Obama was losing his juice after the gun-control setback, the sequester backfire and the Syrian red-line roll-up. The left can breathe easy. Conservatives this week, clearly over the funk of losing to him last November, have resumed their favorite political blood sport: Tearing each other apart. The conservative tribes are at it again over that most ancient of all grievances: immigration. Here's the rub: Just as this self-immolating civil...

Full CNBC breaking news title: Jobless Claims Drop Less Than Expected, Down 3,000 to 382,000; Analysts Expected Claims to Drop to 373,000 (story developing)

Unemployment was up in 44 States, down in two states, down in D.C, and unchanged in four others. There has been no improvement nationally this year. Bloomberg reports U.S. Joblessness Rise Broad-Based as 44 States Show Gain

[Today] the Labor Department will release its April employment report. If the rate goes down, the administration will brag a bit, but they won't dwell on it. They know that the unemployment rate does not reflect the actual number of people who need work. Did you ever wonder how many of them are really out there? Let's put it in pre-recession, real numbers perspective. In July 2007, at the peak of the bling-years boom, there were 146.1 million people employed, 7.1 million unemployed, and 4.5 million working part-time "for economic reasons," which, added to the unemployed, gives the number for...

Two weeks ago, we observed that the number of seasonally-adjusted initial unemployment insurance claims being filed each week was still following the same trend it has since 9 April 2011, but that it was becoming increasingly volatile, suggesting that the trend is beginning to break down: Today's number also underscores the increasing level of volatility in the data - when the current trend was establishing itself, it was characterized by relatively small changes in the number of new jobless claims being filed from week to week. Today new data marks the fourth time in the last six weeks in which...

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The rich and corrupt elite that runs Mexico, regards the American people as the biggest suckers in the world. They are not the only ones. The whole world views America as a nation of stupid suckers. Americans are suffering with a 9 percent unemployment rate, yet, Mexico is grinning happily with a much lower unemployment of 4.8 percent. That is almost half of the American unemployment rate. You can view the Mexican unemployment rate statistics here: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/mexico/unemployment-rate In 2002, the Mexican unemployment rate was 2.22 percent, which is lower than that of Japan and Switzerland today. Mexico is a parasitic...

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 390,000 in the week ended November 5, slightly below the 400,000 that analysts polled by Reuters had expected.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For more Americans, being out of work has become a semi-permanent condition. Nearly one-third of the unemployed - nearly 4.5 million people - have had no job for a year or more. That's a record high. Many are older workers who have found it especially hard to find jobs. And economists say their prospects won't brighten much even after the economy starts to strengthen and hiring picks up. Even if they can find a job, it will likely pay far less than their old ones did. The outlook is unlikely to improve on Friday, when the government...

Economy: What's a six-letter word that describes what you get when you combine spiking jobless claims and rising inflation? Answer: M-I-S-E-R-Y. And as new reports show, Obama is dishing out heaping portions of it. The two reports out of the Labor Department are troubling enough on their own. Jobless claims hit 428,000 last week, up 11,000 from the week before, the highest level in months and, naturally, unexpected. And inflation in August was up 3.8% over last year, also higher than forecast. These reports also point to a more worrisome trend. With unemployment stuck at a stratospheric 9.1% — and...

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Private businesses added a modest number of jobs in August, according to a report released Wednesday. Private-sector jobs in the U.S. rose by 91,000 this month, ... had expected ADP would report an August gain of 100,000. The July data were revised down to show a rise of 109,000 versus 114,000 reported earlier. ...Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires expect total nonfarm payrolls rose by only 80,000 slots in August. This month's number is expected to be held down by workers on strike at Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) in mid-August and layoffs in the state and...

Sorry for the vanity here, but I have Googled and looked until my eyes are bloodshot and can find no information on whether June's jobs numbers were revised down on Friday. I'm guessing since it's not being reported anywhere that in fact they were. This is the usual pattern with Obama and his organ grinder monkeys in the media---report job creation, then quietly and with no fanfare downgrade the number the following month with the willing complicity of the media keeping the whole thing quiet. Anyway, if anyone knows if the jobs numbers were bumped up, down or unchanged for...

WASHINGTON - A "new normal" is emerging for the U.S. jobs market, and a growing number of economists warn that it's likely to mean that unemployment will remain persistently high, at 7 percent or more, for years to come. The 9.1 percent unemployment rate reported in May remains high by post-World War II standards long after the economy resumed growth following the worst recession in 70 years. It's prompting economists to rethink basic assumptions about the U.S. labor market.

Men are disappearing from the workplace in ways that don't always register on the official unemployment rate The March jobs report released on Apr. 1 seemed like the best in years. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis released a statement noting that the four-month drop in the jobless rate, to 8.8 percent from 9.8 percent, was "its largest decline since 1984." Behind the headlines, though, statistics on jobs are far less encouraging. Yes, job growth has picked up somewhat. Yet an equally important reason for the lower jobless rate is that many people, men in particular, have simply given up looking...

PROBLEME WIE IN EUROPA Die Konsequenzen sind fatal. Denn je länger die Arbeitslosen ohne Job sind, desto stärker entwertet sich ihre Qualifikation. Das spüren selbst gut ausgebildete Arbeitskräfte wie Lawrence Cannon aus Byram in Mississippi. Der 48-jährige Ingenieur mit Erfahrungen im Straßenbau und Ölbohrgeschäft verlor seinen Job bei einem Bauunternehmen vor einem Jahr. Nun jobbt er bei Wal-Mart und in einem Fitnesscenter, um sich, seine Frau und seine vier Kinder mit Mindestlöhnen über die Runden zu bringen. „Mein Einkommen hat sich von 65 000 Dollar pro Jahr auf 20 000 reduziert“, klagt Cannon. Er hat sich sogar bei Firmen beworben,...

This is the death of the American Dream. Near 10% joblessness and no hope or change, propaganda can rescue this economy. President Barry Hussein Suitor and Vice President Joe Biden announced this as the Summer of Economic Recovery; instead, millions of Americans have been out of work for more than 99 weeks and counting. They know we all know this is the end of American Exceptionalism; this is the end of the American middle class, as we know it. (see story) Andrew Klavan gives a unique informative and comparatively witty look at president Soetoro’s Summer of Economic Recovery and the...

An Obama supporter who has a temp gig at my office has asked me to put in a good word for them (gender-neutral reference) toward a more permanent position. What to do, what to do?

As a logical consequence of the prolonged economic downturn it appears that participation in the federal food stamp program is continuing to rise. In fact, household participation has been climbing so steadily that it has far surpassed the last peak set as a result of the immediate fallout following hurricane Katrina. The latest data released by the Department of Agriculture shows that, on a year-over-year basis, household participation has increased 21.28% while individual participation, as a ratio of the overall population, has increased 17.55% over the same period

At President Obama's insistence, Senate Democrats today are expected to almost quadruple the amount of time out-of-work Americans can receive unemployment insurance benefits -- adding yet another $34 billion to this year's incomprehensible $1.4 trillion budget deficit. Jobless Americans will be grateful for the cash -- hence the plan's popularity on Capitol Hill -- but their long-term prospects won't be helped very much by the bill. Neither will the economy. The bill OKs more federal borrowing to pay for extended jobless benefits. The federal-state unemployment program, introduced in the 1930s, allows workers who lose their jobs to apply for weekly...

Billy Raye, a 51-year-old unemployed bike courier, is looking for work. Fortunately for him, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters is seeking paid demonstrators to march and chant in its current picket line outside the McPherson Building, an office complex here where the council says work is being done with nonunion labor. the union hires unemployed people at the minimum wage—$8.25 an hour—to walk picket lines. Mr. Raye says he's grateful for the work, even though he's not sure why he's doing it. "I could care less," he says. "I am being paid to march around and sound off." Protest...

GRAFTON, Mass. — After breakfast, his parents left for their jobs, and Scott Nicholson, alone in the house in this comfortable suburb west of Boston, went to his laptop in the living room. He had placed it on a small table that his mother had used for a vase of flowers until her unemployed son found himself reluctantly stuck at home. The daily routine seldom varied. Mr. Nicholson, 24, a graduate of Colgate University, winner of a dean’s award for academic excellence, spent his mornings searching corporate Web sites for suitable job openings. When he found one, he mailed off...

THE PRESIDENT: All right. Good morning, everybody. On what seems like a daily basis, we're barraged with statistics and forecasts and reports and data related to the health of the economy. But from the first days of this administration, amidst the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, I've said that the truest measure of progress would be whether or not we were creating jobs. That's what matters in people's lives. What matters is whether someone who needs a job can find work -- whether people can provide for their families and save for the future and achieve some measure...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance fell slightly less than expected last week, government data showed on Thursday, implying only a gradual labor market improvement. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 448,000 in the week ended April 24, the Labor Department said. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected claims to fall to 445,000 from the previously reported 456,000, which was modestly revised up to 459,000 in Thursday's report. The four-week moving average of new claims, which irons out week-to-week volatility, rose 1,500 to 462,500, increasing for a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless aid soared last week as the backlog from the Easter holiday was processed, adding to worries about the recovery, while U.S. industrial output rose less than expected in March. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 24,000 -- the largest increase in two months -- to a seasonally adjusted 484,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Markets had expected a dip to 440,000. "Everything on the manufacturing side is clearly pointing to an acceleration," said Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Investors in New York....

The Feds have lied to us again. Figures released by the federal government concerning the December jobless rate carefully hid the truth from the public. The U.S. labor force shrank by 661,000--the worst since this current Great Recession began. Interestingly, once again it took a newspaper in the U.K. to give Americans the truth. The Telegraph of the U.K. presented the following headline: 'America slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels; December was the worst month for U.S. unemployment since the Great Recession began.' Newspapers, television network news programs, and other media in the United States, however, parroted the...

Al Hunt writes a column that reveals the typical finger-pointing and backbiting that ensues when things are not going all that well in an administration. First, he relates this episode: "On Dec. 2, as Obama prepared to give a major economic speech at the Brookings Institution on Dec. 8 (and a day after his Afghanistan speech at West Point) he met with policy makers. He heard a familiar reprise of the previous several meetings with budget director Peter Orszag arguing for more emphasis on reducing the deficit and Council of Economic Advisers chief Christina Romer leading the contingent espousing a...

With the front line of defense for unemployed Americans crumbling, the jobless are facing potentially reduced benefits and businesses possibly higher taxes. With the front line of defense for unemployed Americans crumbling, the jobless are facing potentially reduced benefits, and businesses -- possibly higher taxes. So far, 25 states, including California, New York, Texas and Michigan, have run out of unemployment insurance money and have borrowed $24 billion from the federal government -- loans that are interest free. By 2011, 15 more states will have exhausted their jobless trust funds and need $90 billion in loans to keep handing...

If you still have a job, maybe Friday's numbers from the Labor Department will give you a chance to exhale. Since the recession began in December 2007, the employment market, for the most part, has been one negative headline after another. Now, we've learned that the U.S. lost only 11,000 jobs in November, that the unemployment rate surprisingly ticked down from 10.2% the previous month to only 10%, and that for the prior two months the total of jobs lost actually wasn't as bad as initially thought. The last time the data were so bright, if they can be called...

As many families gather for this splendid holiday feast, there are too many others who in the year suffer the American equivalent of hunger. This is more like deprivation and thankfully not the clinical malnutrition and starvation it is in the Third World. At the same time, this super-rich nation is also battling what is described as an epidemic of overweight and obesity. Obesity, according to the experts, is mushrooming faster than any other health problem. If not slowed down, it will exact $344 billion in health care costs in 2018. By that time 43 percent of Americans, or 103...

Labor Day has changed dramatically. Massive marches in Detroit, Pittsburgh and New York City on this day once marked the power of organized labor. This year, union members will be marching in much smaller parades and enjoying slimmed- down picnics. Some parades and picnics have been canceled. Those are signs of the times. Here are a few more: More than 9.1 million Americans — union and nonunion alike — are categorized by the Labor Department as involuntary part-time workers. They're the lucky ones. They still have a job but are working fewer hours each week. Their reduced paychecks reflect that...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. employers cut 539,000 jobs last month, the fewest since October, according to government data on Friday that signaled the economy's steep decline may be easing. The unemployment rate, however, soared to 8.9 percent, the highest since September 1983, from 8.5 percent in March and job losses in March and February were a combined 66,000 steeper than previously estimated, the Labor Department said. A big 72,000 jump in government payrolls tempered the overall job-loss figure. Private sector employment fell by 611,000 in April after a 693,000 job decline in March.

The pace of layoffs slowed in April when employers cut 539,000 jobs, the fewest in six months. But the unemployment rate climbed to 8.9 percent, the highest since late 1983, as many businesses remain wary of hiring given all the economic uncertainties. “This is a truly awful report that will likely be taken as a good report because the job losses have slowed,” Joel Naroff of Naroff Economic Advisors, wrote in a note to clients. The Labor Department tally released Friday wasn't nearly as deep as the 620,000 job cuts that economists were expecting, and was helped by a burst...

Unemployment rate hits 8.9%

New jobless claims rose more than expected last week, while the number of workers continuing to filing claims for unemployment benefits topped 6.1 million. Both figures are fresh evidence layoffs persist amid a weak job market that is not expected to rebound anytime soon. The Labor Department said Thursday that initial claims for unemployment compensation rose to a seasonally adjusted 640,000, up from a revised 613,000 the previous week. That was slightly above analysts' expectations of 635,000. Economists are closely watching the unemployment compensation data because they believe a sustained decline in the number of initial claims could signal the...

WASHINGTON -- The number of people receiving unemployment benefits has reached an all-time record, the government said Thursday, and more layoffs are spreading throughout the economy.

A professional man, named Paul Nawrocki made to the top page of CNN because of his unique way of seeking for a job. Yesterday it was revealed the the U.S. economy lost a staggering 533,000 jobs in November. Today's its not a surprise that the homeless and jobless professionals will find innovative ways to seek jobs in this declining economy. Paul Nawrocki, who says he is beyond the point where he cares about humiliation, has found a desperate, but innovative way. CNN writes: "Almost homeless," reads the sign. "Looking for employment. Very experienced operations and administration manager." Wearing a suit...

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending Sept. 27, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 497,000, an increase of 1,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 496,000. It is estimated that the effects of Hurricane Gustav in Louisiana and the effects of Hurricane Ike in Texas added approximately 45,000 claims to the total. The 4-week moving average was 474,000, an increase of 11,500 from the previous week's unrevised average of 462,500. The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.7 percent for the week ending Sept. 20, unchanged from the prior...

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It’s Jihad, Not Joblessness Causing Rioting by Robert Spencer HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE Why have the French riots happened? From many accounts one would think that the riots have been caused by France’s failure to implement Marxism. “The unrest,” AP explained, has highlighted the division between France’s big cities and their poor suburbs, with frustration simmering in the housing projects in areas marked by high unemployment, crime and poverty.” Others have blamed France’s failure to integrate Muslims into French society. However, this has been a policy on which both Muslims and non-Muslims in France have agreed. In her seminal Eurabia: The...

http://illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=19047OPINION -- Have you heard that our “shaky, jobless recovery” is threatening to come to a halt? That is utterly wrong, according to a whistle-blowing Ph.D. who demonstrates how employment reports, used of late as Weapons of Mass Depiction against D.C. Republicans, are misleading us.In an August 7 Chicago Tribune article, “Hiring fizzles in July,” reporter William Neikirk began, “Employers put the brakes on hiring last month, adding a scant 32,000 jobs to their payrolls, the government said Friday in a report that roiled the presidential race.” Note how the supposedly low job increase translates into... what result? Why, the...

The jobs crisis and the GOP Posted: March 10, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc. President Bush and his advisers are puzzled and worried. Economic liftoff took place right on schedule in July when the tax cuts took effect. In the last six months of 2003, the economy blazed along on a growth path of 6 percent. But where are the jobs? Last week's jobs report, with hundreds of thousands giving up the search for work, and manufacturing jobs disappearing for the 43rd straight month, jolted the White House. What is going on? They're calling it a...

  Politics - Reuters Edwards Seizes on Job Numbers in Bid to Oust Bush 13 minutes ago Add Politics - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Jeremy Pelofsky BLACKSBURY, Va. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards (news - web sites) on Friday seized on the latest economic data that showed fewer jobs were created last month than expected to press his campaign to oust the Bush administration. Reuters Photo Latest headlines: · Kerry Nominations, Donations Coincided AP - 12 minutes ago · Edwards Seizes on Job Numbers in Bid to Oust BushReuters - 13 minutes ago · Kerry's Front-Runner...

<p>BATON ROUGE - Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster will end two scandal-free terms Jan. 12, leaving an eight-year legacy of clean government and improved funding and attention to public schools. But he likely will be remembered for failing to address major problems in health care and missing key economic development opportunities for a state still struggling with intense poverty and joblessness.</p>

National Suicide I Diane Alden Monday, Dec. 15, 2003 We are committing national suicide. Forget the politicians and even conservatives who are caught up the power politics in the New York-Washington nexus. They are no help. It is OUR failure as citizens of the states to address certain basic issues that have us on the ropes. Those issues include: *Reforming the judicial oligarchy even if it requires a constitutional amendment. We will lose this nation and what is left of the Bill of Rights and Constitution if we don't. In 1996, some of our very best, including men like Judge...

Unemployed in Kentucky Candidates are on shaky ground when flinging economic blame By Ryan Alessi and Jack Brammer HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU FRANKFORT - After 28 years at ATR Wire & Cable Co. in Danville, Ruth Cooley got a rude shock last February: The company was shutting down, and her $13.55-an-hour job inspecting steel tire cord was about to disappear. "They called all of us into the cafeteria, gave us a 60-day notice, and that was that. No severance pay, no more health insurance, no nothing," said the 58-year-old Cooley. She's now studying for a high school equivalency diploma and searching...

A QUICK QUIZ. What does a company bleeding red ink in the cutthroat PC industry do with spare cash that it nets from laying off its employees and outsourcing the jobs to India?* Answer: HP goes shopping! Yes, HP, that computing once-giant that appears to be busily shedding its staff as fast as the new 9500 series can print out pink slips in vividly color matched shades is on a shopping spree. And what's HP buying? Executoys of course.

Workers who Feel Discarded By BOB HERBERT [I] 've gone through a few stages of depression and frustration," said Dina Ziskin, who is 31 and lives in Brooklyn. "Why is it taking me so long? I panic a lot. I did not think it would be this difficult to find a job." "I can't tell you the number of divorces we hear about," said Janelle Razzino, who runs an executive search firm in Westwood, N.J. "The job loss in these cases was probably the final straw. Nobody needs that kind of pressure, stress, whatever." "It's like someone ran an electric...

Business: World's jobless rate reaches 180 million Copyright © 2003 AP Online By JONATHAN FOWLER, Associated Press GENEVA (January 24, 2003 7:34 a.m. EST) - The number of jobless worldwide has risen by 20 million people over the past two years and hundreds of millions more are employed but make so little money they can barely survive, the United Nations labor agency said Friday. "The world employment situation is alarming," said Claire Harasty, senior economist at the International Labor Organization, launching the 108-page Global Employment Trends report. "After two years of economic slowdown and delayed recovery we estimate that...