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Employers Cut 539,000 Jobs in April, Jobless Rate at 8.9%
CNBC/Reuters ^

Posted on 05/08/2009 5:36:58 AM PDT by navysealdad

Unemployment rate hits 8.9%

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To: navysealdad

IN my line of work (Aviation). The regional airlines were desperatly looking for mechanics in the Northern VA area. In fact Bussiness aviation used to be great here. But now Bussiness aviation are cutting back and the regionals are filled. The regionals are even considering cutting some people loose (even me).


121 posted on 05/08/2009 10:35:27 AM PDT by Cripplehawk
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To: VegasCowboy
Obama wants things to tank further so he can continue to advance his agenda. With no crisis, he’ll get much more resistance to his kooky and ill-conceived plans.

By the way, just as an example of where the economy staying down can slow down his agenda, look at Cap and Trade. There's pushback against it because of the warnings about how it will affect jobs. People that hear that are going to voice their resistance, in main part because they are paying attention to what the economy is doing and are concerned about keeping their jobs. If they weren't worried about their jobs and could devote all their attention to who's doing what on Dancing With the Stars, Cap and Trade would be sliding through like crap through a goose. When the economy gets better, people will let the Obama administration and the Democrat congress do anything they want.

122 posted on 05/08/2009 10:43:36 AM PDT by Wissa (I despise the liberal media.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

If your not already, find your local PMI chapter and join. There are lots of networking opportunities in that circle.

Also, practice interviewing with other people and get their feedback.

Lastly, keep a positive attitude and don’t give up!

Best of luck,

Mike W PMP


123 posted on 05/08/2009 10:48:46 AM PDT by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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To: navysealdad

The Gerald R. Ford unemployment rate was less than this, wasn’t it, the one where the even more hapless GA Jimmy said that Ford should be ashamed to seek election with such a high rate of joblessness?


124 posted on 05/08/2009 11:14:34 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: spectre

Liar, the American sheeple love liars!


125 posted on 05/08/2009 11:15:36 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: St. Louis Conservative
That’s a lower number than was cut in March. It seems to be on the right trend, no?

LOL! Okay, okay, people aren't very up on prob and stat.

When the gross number of any series is diminished, then each seceding diminishment is of a smaller number, even though the gross percentage of loss (delta) is unchanged.

IOW, if the number of jobs lost was the same after each count, then the trend would be accelerating dramatically, not slowing.

The trend is virtually unchanged.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. - the purview of the media.
See tag...

126 posted on 05/08/2009 12:01:08 PM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: MikeWUSAF

Thanks Mike. I am already a member of the Alamo PMI. I am going to look at board opportunities with them to expand my network.

Regards


127 posted on 05/08/2009 12:50:46 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Ohhhhbahhhhhhmaaaaaa.... The MSM bleated as their industry continued to crash.)
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To: The Duke

The Duke wrote: “There’s been no real change (though I wish there had been for the sake of us all).”

Actually there is some good news, the Household Survey estimated non-agricultural wage and salary workers at +246,000 in April

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t05.htm

Canada employment also had a surprise increase for April (although most gains were in the self-employed category)

If the CES and household survey have radically different numbers - I will always take the household survey. The CES has had problems in almost every recession and has continually been redesigned.

http://www.bls.gov/osmr/pdf/st970210.pdf


128 posted on 05/08/2009 3:45:25 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ("Bankruptcy is not a sign of weakness.")
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To: OKSooner

Some people just don’t get it.


129 posted on 05/08/2009 3:54:39 PM PDT by Honeybunch ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling)
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To: thecabal

Bookmarked! Thanks much. A guy I talk to at work believed the govcrap. Told him it was much worse, now can show him!


130 posted on 05/08/2009 3:57:59 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: guido911
My guess...is you don't "get" sarcasm.

Maybe it's just an okie thang........

131 posted on 05/08/2009 6:35:11 PM PDT by Osage Orange (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. - Will Rodgers)
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To: navysealdad

BREAKING NEWS....Robert Gibbs and the Iraqi Information Minister have both been fired by Team Obama as Press Secretaries. Meet the new White House Press Secretary.....Jim Mora.

"Layoffs!!! Layoffs??? Don't talk about layoffs. Layoffs??!!"


132 posted on 05/08/2009 7:41:08 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Jimmah Cahtah ... you got THAT right!!!


133 posted on 05/08/2009 11:29:58 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: Osage Orange

Maybe you should “ef” off. Who asked you anything.


134 posted on 05/09/2009 8:59:12 AM PDT by guido911 (Islamic terrorists are members of the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
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To: The Sons of Liberty

How many self-employed/realtors are out there barely limping along?


135 posted on 05/09/2009 9:34:22 AM PDT by proudpapa (Obama - Worst One Ever!)
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To: proudpapa

How many self-employed/realtors are out there barely limping along?
+++++++++

How many people in general are barely limping along. Then what will happen when oil goes up, up and inflation kicks in with all this stooopid money the govuhnmen is printing like a bunch of Chicago gangstas..HMMM?


136 posted on 05/09/2009 9:36:37 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Country and the Tea Party! Take America Back!)
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To: guido911
Aren't you the articulate one........

ROFLOL!!

137 posted on 05/09/2009 3:44:28 PM PDT by Osage Orange (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. - Will Rodgers)
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To: guido911
So you really don't "get" sarcasm do you....

Look it up chief...

You might broaden your horizons a tad.

138 posted on 05/09/2009 3:46:55 PM PDT by Osage Orange (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. - Will Rodgers)
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To: w1andsodidwe; algernonpj; refreshed

The musical chair analogy is useful. Yes some chairs are removed from the game. But many more chairs are added to the game, especially over time.

Since I constantly job hop, I’ve held over 50 jobs in my life. Other than my slot in the Army in Vietnam and my first job after Vietnam, every job I’ve held has been a newly created job that never existed before.

Where I currently consult, I filled a newly created job that had gone begging for over a year before I filled it. I had seen it on the internet for all that time. Recruiters had been begging me for over a year to fill it.

After I took the position, I had some issues with the corporate bureaucracy of departments with which I interfaced. The response of my department was to create a whole new team with me as the first team member. My old slot then became open and went begging for someone to fill it. My new team has never been able to fill all the slots for which it has been budgeted.

Most everywhere I’ve worked since ‘68 new positions are constantly being created that never before existed. New projects, new departments, new territories. Of course, at the same time, old projects are completed and phased out. I’ve been phased out numerous times.


139 posted on 05/11/2009 11:11:53 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: proudpapa

Any competent realtor would realize that this real estate market is a buy opportunity and a strong rental market (at least in the various markets where my family has income real estate).

If an alleged realtor can’t understand how to take advantage of this great market, then they don’t deserve the term “realtor” which is reserved for the alleged elite of licensed real estate agents.


140 posted on 05/11/2009 11:35:45 AM PDT by spintreebob
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