oxymoronic?
and it's the 'rich's fault'? huh?
Oh wait.. They have all the politicos in their pockets, huh? never mind unions and entitlement suckers and others that are no more than a parasite on a host.
I guess getting paid by OCCUPY doesn’t count for much when ya crunch the numbers job-wise.. just a tiny insignificant ripple. The 99% are just a cheap pool of ready-made protesters.. or sumthin’.
What, only some states get extended benefits? Only the "hardest hit"? From what I have seen, those will all be Democrat states.
How’s that Change workin out for you America?
Once there are no longer any more rich outside of government, can we then finally blame the politicians within the two party system for all the demise that they have created in destroying freedom?
Why is it that we don't have double-digit unemployment?? The unemployment rate was 9.1%, the numbers are bad every month, and now the rate is 9%.
It's because people lose their benefits, drop off the chart, are no longer counted -- that's why the unemployment rate goes down.
As the bad times stretch out longer and longer, the statistics will look better and better.
But some people see.
Just talked to a woman who runs a high end fashion store. They want to hire someone for back room work, receiving and paperwork, with basic skills, like, can add and subtract and read and write, and can be trusted to show up reliably. Good long term potential for advancement. They can't find anyone suitable.
Congress is expected to decide by year’s end whether to continue providing emergency unemployment benefits for up to 99 weeks in the hardest-hit states.
How long is this emergency going to last?
99+ weeks? that’s welfare.
There are jobs out there waiting to be filled. Cut um off and people will take the 10-15 dollar an hour jobs.
But as long as unemployment pays MORE people will use that up first. If their spouse is making enough for them to get by they may never look for work.
I know Alabama farmers are looking for people to work.
I know in the dakotas and northwest oil companies are looking for workers.
If they really need the work, sometimes you have to go where the jobs are and do a job you wouldn’t otherwise do.
Gues 24 months of freebies will need to be extended until November 2012 so BO can buy the votes needed.
Cut all federal funding to local governments, all social programs that interfere with families and public education. Hundreds of thousands of employees and pensioners of all levels of government should be laid off. Those are the real parasites.
Do they still count as unemployed in the 9% statistic?
If someone goes 99 weeks without a paycheck they should no longer be counted as part of the workforce. I mean, let’s get real here, after 99 weeks, basically 2 years, a person simply isn’t willing to work.
Jon Polis lives in East Greenwich, R.I., one of the 20 states where 99 weeks of benefits are available. He used them all up after losing his job as a warehouse worker in 2008. ... He's been unable to find work because employers in his field want computer skills he doesn't have.
I wonder what computer skills
means in the context of warehouse worker. Making a bar-code scanner beep?
Great news for us who run small businesses - maybe we can actually find some willing employees at $12/hour now, instead of people who would rather just stay home and collect their $10/hour from the government.