nytimes.com - 1/10/2009
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As bad as the headline numbers in Friday’s employment report were, they still made the job market look better than it really is. The unemployment rate reached its highest point since 1993, and overall employment fell by more than a half million jobs. Yet that was just the beginning. Thanks to ...
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Bush's Last Month Sees Unemployment Hit 22%, According to Wingnuttia's Math
Open Left - Front Page —
... Now, I certainly believe unemployment today is way too high, and I also agree with those experts who say that the official unemployment rate undercounts the number of people actually unemployed (it does this by not counting people who have given up looking for work - ie. the long-term unemployed - as unemployed). ...
David Sirota: Bush's Last Month Sees Unemployment Hit 22%, According to Wingnuttia's Math
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... Now, I certainly believe unemployment today is way too high. I agree with those experts who say that the official unemployment rate undercounts the number of people actually unemployed (it does this by not counting people who have given up looking for work - ie. the long-term unemployed - as unemployed) - and I also believe that if we don't pass at least a New Deal-sized economic rescue package, we could see unemployment levels sharply increase from their already high levels today. ...
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Bob Franken: Grim and Bare It
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"Cheer up, they said, things could be worse. So I did. And sure enough, they were"
That pretty much describes the dashing hope of our desperate economic situation. It is quickly worsening from downward slide to free fall into ...
Picture Of The Day
rhymeswithright.mu.nu 3/15/2009 — Seen somewhere in North Carolina. But even better than the picture is this comment on Don Surber's blog on the picture. Countdown to some Leftard calling this guy a raaaaacist!!!!111!!!! in 5
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