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POPSUNEMPLOYMENT TOPS 10 %
The jobless rate rose to 10.2 percent from 9.8 percent in September. The jump reflects a sharp increase in the tally of unemployed Americans, which rose to 15.7 million from 15.1 million. That was much larger than the net loss of jobs, which is based on a survey of businesses. Economists say it could climb as high as 10.5 percent next year because employers remain reluctant to hire. Friday's report is the first since the government said last week that the economy grew at a 3.5 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter, the strongest signal yet that the economy is rebounding. But that isn't fast enough to spur rapid hiring, raising the specter of a jobless recovery. "You need explosive growth to take the unemployment rate down," said Dan Greenhaus, chief economic strategist for New York-based investment firm Miller Tabak & Co. Greenhaus said the economy soared by nearly 8 percent in 1983 after a steep recession, lowering the jobless rate by 2.5 percentage points that
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POPSWhat is it with liberals and sexual slurs? Problems with this article (other than the sexual slurs). The assumption that the tea party movement is a wing of the republican party when they are just as disgusted with big government republicans as they are with big government democrats. She called Scozzafava a moderate. She, like other party loyalists, assumed it would be better for republicans to win with a liberal candidate than lose with a conservative. It's time people stop voting for letters following someone's name and vote for the candidate closest to their own beliefs. It isn't a two party system when both parties are on the same side. The fact that Scozzafava endorsed the democrat was proof that conservatives were right and she was the wrong person for the job. Scozzafava winning would have been just as big a loss for conservatives as Owens winning.
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POPSGreenspan foresees Rise in Unemployment He went on: “And remember that what makes an economy great is a combination of the capital assets of the economy and the people who run it. And if you erode the human skills that are involved there, there is a real and in one sense an irretrievable loss.” The “silver lining” to the jobs report, he said, is that after the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year and a plunge in stock markets, businesses laid off too many people in anticipation of a drastic slowdown in the economy. Some of those jobs will have to be restored. “At some point we’re going to start to see an improvement in employment,” he said.
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POPSChina Bans US Chicken Feet? It is always about the money, it is always about the money, it is always about the money. People, health, environment, and combating disease or job loss? Way down the list. Plus, what kind of great minds do we have in Congress? Avian influenza and cooked chicken - no connection. Food poisoning from E coli, you bet but not avian influenza.
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POPS Obama Stimulate This … How bad is unemployment is the US? Among teenagers we have reached record unemployment as it is the highest it has ever been at 25.5%. This August, the teenage unemployment rate " that is, the percentage of teenagers who wanted a job who could not find one " was 25.5 percent, its highest level since the government began keeping track of such statistics in 1948. Likewise, the percentage of teenagers over all who were working was at its lowest level in recorded history… This August found more than a quarter of the teenagers in the job market unable to find work, an unemployment rate nearly three times that of the nonteenage population (9 percent), and nearly four times that of workers over 55 (6.8 percent, also a record high for that age group). An estimated 1.64 million people ages 16-19 were unemployed…
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POPS Why It’s Not Working Uncle Sam has borrowed $388 billion in the second quarter and is scheduled to borrow $406 billion in the third quarter and nearly $500 billion in the fourth. In order to provide $152 billion in so-called fiscal stimulus, the government is draining close to $800 billion from the private-sector savings supply " $800 billion that will not be invested in new-business enterprises, including small businesses. To be honest, it’s hard to know what Biden is talking about at any given moment he opens his mouth. But on the economy and the “stimulus” plan he’s even more incoherent than usual. (Actually, I suspect Biden was brought on board the ticket to provide Obama with a comic side-kick. Buddy movie politics.) The economy is a shambles directly because of the policies of the Obama administration. Kudlow predicts a minimum 500 point Wall Street rally if ObamaCare fails. (I’d bet on a lot higher, frankly).
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POPSLow-wage workers are often cheated by their employers More: The researchers said one of the most surprising findings was how successful low-wage employers were in pressuring workers not to file for workers’ compensation. Only 8 percent of those who suffered serious injuries on the job filed for compensation to pay for medical care and missed days at work stemming from those injuries… The study found that women were far more likely to suffer minimum wage violations than men, with the highest prevalence among women who were illegal immigrants. Among American-born workers, African-Americans had a violation rate nearly triple that for whites… The report found that 57 percent of workers sampled had not received mandatory pay documents the previous week, which are intended to help make sure pay is legal and accurate. Of workers who receive tips, 12 percent said their employer had stolen some of the tips."
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POPSWatch Online Last chance harvey Movie Last Chance Harvey!Let me laugh first. It is a hilarious movie that delivers a side-splitting entertainment to the viewers. Trust me this is the best amusing movie, one can ever see and if anyone misses it then he is in great loss. Thanks, is what I want to say to this website, as I downloaded it from this website.
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POPSThe destruction of the black middle class More: Yet in the depths of this African American depression, some commentators, black as well as white, are still obsessing about the supposed cultural deficiencies of the black community. In a December op-ed in the Washington Post, Kay Hymowitz blamed black economic woes on the fact that 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers, not noticing that the white two-parent family has actually declined at a faster rate than the black two-parent family. The share of black children living in a single parent home increased by 155 percent between 1960 to 2006, while the share of white children living in single parent homes increased by a staggering 229 percent. Just last month on NPR, commentator Juan Williams dismissed the NAACP…The fact that there is an ongoing recession disproportionately affecting the African American middle class – and brought on by Wall Street greed rather than "ghetto" values – seems to have eluded him.
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POPSSurviving Vs. Winning: The Leader's Mindset Admiral Stockdale was the highest ranking U.S. officer at the “Hanoi Hilton” POW camp during Vietnam. A navy fighter pilot, he was shot down and endured brutal torture, all while doing everything possible to inspire and strengthen the spirit of his fellow prisoners.
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POPSKnow more about Foreclosure preforeclosure Foreclosure is the cause of irregular or missed payments on the loan amount. Some of the common reasons for foreclosure are increase in the interest rates of the loan amount, long term medical treatment, loss of job due to the cut backs and lay offs by the companies where the borrowers were employed.
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POPSThe Alickadoos are listening to the troops - at last. For readers of this blog will understand that I derive no pleasure after years of berating the effete politicians for demanding of the soldier that which he/she cannot attain themselves. For years they have ignored protestations over military vehicles. Had but one politician the courage to listen and then report to the House of Thieves that they are wasting billions of tax payer money on vehicles the Rhodesian Army would never have used - and that over thirty years ago - and the consequent loss of life. For year it has been obvious that the military is led by donkeys only interested in their own pensions. How he truth is coming home to bite them.
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POPSThe “Green” Movement It’s considered, by some, as a national energy tax bill, costing the average American household a substantial increase in energy costs, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which would also eliminate precious jobs. If forty four Democratic Members of Congress felt the bill was too contentious, with a huge amount of unanswered questions and uncertainty, voting against Party lines, then why would these Republicans yield, unless offered some shady deals, initiated behind the scenes, enticing them to revise their principles? Some of them in question were from New Jersey, so this, basically, answers the moral and ethical questions. This bill has the unfortunate reputation of stymieing the flow of relevant information to the American people, while being railroaded through the legislative process. We are in for an unmerciful rude awakening, of the highest magnitude, if we refuse to question these potential laws in progress.
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POPSSven Goran Erikson - Looking for a Job Again. Sven Goran Erikson is out of work again. The Former England manager has been sacked by his most recent employer, the Mexican national team, after his team was defeated 3-1 by Honduras, their second loss in three World Cup qualifying matches.
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POPSCost of each "Green Job" = $800,000
In addition, about two-thirds of those "green" jobs were just to set up the energy source in construction, fabrication, installation, marketing and administration. Only 1 in 10 of the green jobs created was a permanent job operating and maintaining the renewable sources of energy. Each wind-industry job created in Spain required a subsidy of about $1.4 million. Overall, the average subsidy cost for each green job was about $800,000 (571,138 euros). And to create about 50,000 green jobs, Spain lost 110,000 jobs elsewhere. The high cost of green energy predictably drove energy-intensive Spanish companies and industries out of Spain to countries with cheaper carbon-based energy, while the cost to Spanish taxpayers of renewable-energy subsidies was "enormous There is much more in the report, which at less than 50 pages would make useful reading for our elected representatives. Those who are worried about global warming may, after studying this report, still want to subsidize renew
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POPSPresto: Obama Saved or Created Another 130 Million Jobs In June Americans lucky enough to still have a job are noticing something unpleasant in their paychecks: They're making less money. Employers cut 467,000 jobs in June, far more than expected, and the jobless rate hit a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. Just as worrisome, wages shrank to their lowest in nearly a year. The bleak news Thursday from the Labor Department underscored one of the big threats to an economic turnaround: Rising joblessness and falling wages for those still working could send Americans back into spending hibernation and short-circuit any recovery. President Barack Obama acknowledged concern. "What we're still seeing is too many jobs lost, too many families who are worried about whether they're going to be next in terms of job loss, or whether they can find another," he told The Associated Press. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_economy THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: JUNE 2009 http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
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