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Detnews:Using A Broader Term Of Unemployment, Nearly 50% Of Detroit's Workers Are Unemployed
15 hours ago ago from The Centrist
The Centrist is reading where the unofficial unemployment rate for Detroit is close to 50%. Michigone has litterally become a real life version of The Road' . What will the tragedy of Detroit look like after the stimulus dollars run out? Via Detnews.com December 16, 2009 Despite an official unemployment rate of 27 percent, the real jobs problem in Detroit may be affecting half of the working-age population, ...
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22 hours ago ago from theblogprof
What's the problem? Detroit has been under liberal Democrat hegemonic domination for more than 50 years now. The unions control the show and have their puppet politicians loosening the purse string all the time. So what's gone wrong? Where are the unicorns and rainbows? Instead, it is a city that is imploding on itself. Nowhere is there more misery and despair than in Detroit. Ineptitude couples with corruption at every level of government. A ...
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22 hours ago ago from The Periscope Post
Unemployment rate in the UK rose by 21,000 to 2.49 million in the three months to October, the smallest quarterly increase in 18 months, newspapers reported today. According to figures published by the Office for National Statistics , unemployment rate is now 7.9 percent, the highest level recorded in 13 years, The Times said. However, unemployment rate in the UK remains positive, if compared with recent figures of 10 percent in the ...
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As the poor economy is continuing to plague New Hampshire with a high unemployment rate, state and municipal welfare programs and homeless shelters are experiencing an increase in demand. Cassie Bushnell, a 21- year old high school dropout, is just one of the many people who are seeking aid from these programs. She stays with friends and family from time to time and works temporary jobs when she can. “I kind of bounce from place to place,” ...
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15 hours ago ago from Womenstake
by Nancy Duff Campbell, Co-President, National Women's Law Center Cross-Posted from Huffington Post . Here’s a sobering thought for our holiday season: one million workers will become ineligible for unemployment benefits in January 2010 unless Congress reauthorizes the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)’s unemployment insurance and COBRA health insurance programs by the end of this month. What a way to ring in the ...
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Nancy Duff Campbell: Unemployed? Happy Holidays: Now You're On Your Own
17 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Here's a sobering thought for our holiday season: One million workers will become ineligible for unemployment benefits in January 2010 unless Congress reauthorizes the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)'s unemployment insurance and COBRA health insurance programs by the end of this month. What a way to ring in the New Year: a vital lifeline that helped these jobless women and men keep a roof over their heads, put food on the ...
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17 hours ago ago from U.S. News
NJ's unemployment rate stays steady in November TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The state Labor Department says New Jersey's unemployment rate held steady in November despite more job losses in the private sector. It also reported that the state gained several hundred jobs in October, instead of losing jobs as initially reported. Figures released Wednesday showed the state's jobless rate for November was 9.7 percent, the same as October. That's ...
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14 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Alabama Democrats propose $1B highway program MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Democrats in the Alabama Senate will try again in the new year to invest $1 billion from a state savings account in a 10-year boom in road and bridge construction that would be nearly twice the size of the federal stimulus funding for highways. Sen. Lowell Barron and other members of the Senate Democratic Caucus said Wednesday they will make the proposed constitutional ...
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16 hours ago ago from Media General - TBO.com
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve pledged today to hold interest rates at a record low to drive down double-digit unemployment and sustain the economic recovery. The Fed noted that the economy is growing, however slowly. And turning more upbeat, it pointed to a slowing pace of layoffs. Still, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues gave no signal that they're considering raising rates anytime soon. They noted that consumer spending ...
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