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Indicator Shows Improvement in Jobs Picture
20 hours ago ago from Risky Investor
The U.S. job picture improved for the fifth consecutive month in January, according to a report released Monday. The Conference Board said that its January employment trends index rose to 93.2 from December's upwardly revised 92.3, but was still down by 0.7% compared to January 2009. December was originally reported as 91.8. The continued rise in the ETI makes us more optimistic that job growth will resume in the first quarter of ...
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Related contentRecession For Everyone But Government
17 hours ago ago from Right Pundits
While the private sector scales back, cuts corners, tightens their belt, and does all the other idiom phrases associated with being poor, the government is getting fat. Actually, let's be more direct than that. They're a lard, i.e. pig fat. In the month of January alone, Obama added 33,000 new government jobs, only 9,000 of which were part-time Census roles. Let me say that again: 33 thousand. What makes government jobs not an ...
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10 hours ago ago from Beach Banter
By Peter Schiff With today’s unexpected decline in December payrolls, the cry for more job-related stimulus will grow even louder. But the sad truth is that any new stimulus or jobs bills will ultimately swell the ranks of the unemployed, thereby raising calls for an even bigger federal effort. If we are not careful, government regulations, subsidies, and spending, all designed to fight unemployment, could push the labor market into a ...
Related contentRecovery Act One Year Progress Report
15 hours ago ago from Liberty Works
This week marks one year since the or Recovery Act, $787 Billion of extra borrowing and spending, was enacted by Congress. Administration officials and supporters are making the preposterous claim that every economist agrees the stimulus created millions of jobs. It's time for an objective progress report. A year ago President Obama orchestrated weeks of government-media hype leading up the the Congressional vote, and ...
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Jared Bernstein: Where We Are and Where We Were
16 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Along with a massive snowstorm, Friday brought a blizzard of new info on the job market. From the perspective of our work at the White House, two points stand out, one about where we are and the other about where we've been. First, while there are encouraging signs regarding jobs, they are early signs and must be viewed with care. The job market is clearly doing better than it was but the level of unemployment is miles north of where it ...
Related contentSenate Jobs Bill Stalled
21 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Politico reports that Senate Democrats "will miss their self-imposed deadline for bringing a jobs bill to the floor Monday," and while DC's major snowstorm may have played some role in the delay, "it seems unlikely that Democrats would have been ready to proceed Monday, anyway." Although both parties say Washington should be focused on jobs -- January's unemployment rate came in Friday at 9.7 percent -- Democrats can't move a bill without ...
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