Posts Tagged ‘Unemployment’

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Jack Welch Lets Us Into The Mind of Corporate America

on October 9th, 2012 at 12:40 am

By now everyone had heard Jack Welch’s paranoid and delusional rantings about how government employment numbers were fixed by the Obama campaign. Welch was absolutely flabbergasted that the unemployment rate went down. This can’t be! This doesn’t smell right. This doesn’t feel right, he kept repeating and repeating. Corporate media gave Welch plenty of valuable […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Unemployment Drops to 7.8% as 200,000 New Jobs Created

on October 7th, 2012 at 9:27 am

The Labor Department announced Friday that 114,000 jobs new jobs were created in September and raised the July numbers to 181,000 and Septmember’s to 142,000 causing the overall national unemployment rate to fall to 7.8%, the lowest it’s been since President Obama took office. Besides Republicans, everyone else considers this to be good news. ”Absolutely, it’s positive,” […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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America Is Better Off, Democrats Aren’t: The Facebook Effect

on September 4th, 2012 at 10:13 am

Over the weekend, Martin O’Malley, David Axelrod, and David Plouffe got into trouble for not being able to give a clean answer to the question, are you better off now than you were four years ago. The obvious answer is, of course we’re better off– the stock market has doubled, we’ve created millions more jobs […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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163,000 Jobs Created in July

on August 3rd, 2012 at 7:48 am

Private sector firms hired an extra 172,000 staff, which more than offset the 9,000 fall in government payrolls. The figures were better than most economists had forecast.   Read more at BBC News Despite corporations sitting on trillions of dollars and refusing to hire, despite continued cuts to the public sector by austerity hawks, despite […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Maria Bartiromo: Will Companies Hire if President Obama is Re-elected?

on July 17th, 2012 at 1:38 pm

CNBC, the political birther of the CNBC-T Party, hasn’t exactly tried to hide its antipathy for President Obama and Democrats. Despite mountains of proof that Democrats are better for the economy and the stock market than Republicans, for ideological reasons, CNBC professes a libertarian philosophy and pushes a far right economic agenda. This has never […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Mitt Romney Was a Pioneer in Outsourcing American Jobs

on June 24th, 2012 at 12:09 am

Mitt Romney’s financial company, Bain Capital, invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India. During the nearly 15 years that Romney was actively involved in running Bain, a private equity firm that he founded, it owned companies that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Romney Calls Republican Governors Moral Failures For Failing to Lower Their Unemployment Rates

on June 9th, 2012 at 4:01 am

Of the states with the worst unemployment rates in  America, two-thirds of them have Republican governors. On Thursday, Mitt Romney basically called these Republican state governors moral failures for failing to lift their states out of poverty. Romney said, “It is is not just a failure of policy; it is a moral failure of tragic proportions. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Unemployment Drops to 8.1% in April

on May 5th, 2012 at 11:32 am

The April jobs report is out and, despite corporations and billionaires still sitting on trillions of dollars in cash, the American economy created 115,000 jobs. The job report for March and February showed improvement as well, revised upward by 53,000 jobs. Government spending cuts continue to drag on the economy resulting in 15,000 fewer public […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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227,000 Jobs Created in February

on March 9th, 2012 at 4:04 pm

Additionally, January and December job numbers were revised up by 61,000 jobs.

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243,000 Jobs Created in January

on February 4th, 2012 at 3:10 am
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Unemployment Drops to 8.5%, 200,000 Jobs Created in December

on January 6th, 2012 at 11:10 am
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Tea Party Nation Say’s, Stop Hiring!

on November 23rd, 2011 at 1:26 pm

The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive In an effort to stop President Obama, Tea Party Nation called for all American businesses and corporations not to hire anyone until he’s gone.

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Why Are Businesses Sabotaging the American Economy?

on November 23rd, 2011 at 1:04 pm

This may be the reason that the U.S. economy is languishing in the doldrums and unemployment is still so high ; A west Georgia business owner is stirring up controversy with signs he posted on his company’s trucks, for all to see as the trucks roll up and down roads, highways and interstates: “New Company Policy: We are not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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