Showing posts with label Department of Labor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Department of Labor. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Speaking of The Worker, what's old and stupid is new again at The Department of Labor

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  A fatal notion of things, half false & half stupid, began to pervade educated & semi-educated minds: "the worker" become...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

This conservative outrage machine story yesterday and today about Commerce Secretary Raimondo has got to be the dumbest one I've heard in a long time

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 She was asked an ignorant question. Why would the Commerce Secretary have something timely to say about employment revisions released by th...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Inflation more durable than policymakers had anticipated, Joe Biden most hurt

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  This week provided a reminder that inflation isn’t going away anytime soon : The bad news began Monday when a New York Federal Reserve su...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Contact your utility commission and complain about natural gas and electricity prices not coming down

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  Utilities Get an Inflation Shock Electricity and gas providers are encountering a pushback on rate increases :   Utilities get to pass thr...
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Fox Business' broad inflation report contained an error

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 Here's Megan Henney , September 29th : An inflation measure closely watched by the Federal Reserve ticked higher in August as steep pr...
Friday, August 18, 2023

Child care prices rising at nearly twice the rate of inflation

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The national average price of daycare and preschool services rose 6% in July from a year before, the Labor Department reported recently. T...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

Headline payrolls in 2019 may be overstating the real numbers by more than 25%

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The Myth of the Tight U.S. Labor Market : Months from now, the Establishment Survey will undergo its annual retrospective benchmark r...
Monday, March 11, 2019

LOL Larry Kudlow: 22,000 new payrolls in February 2019 "fluky", but 54,000 in May 2011 "meager", economy "sputtering", possibly a sign of recession

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Obama Owns This Unemployment Report : In recent weeks, a whole bunch of new economic stats have been pointing to a sputtering economy -...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

Since the 1990s 144,000 manufacturing and related jobs lost in Wisconsin due to free-trade agreements

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Reported here : Wisconsin has lost more than more than 68,000 manufacturing jobs since the mid-1990s and the first of several contro...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Federal Reserve and FDIC lose power

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Electrical, but hey! we can dream can't we? From the story here : "Most power at the State Department was lost and employ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Low Wage Workers Get Reduced Hours, Probably Due To ObamaCare, The Rest Work More

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So says Jed Graham for Investors.com, here , echoing our posts on part-timers who represent just 20% of the usually employed and are too few...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

First Time Claims For Unemployment Surge Above 300,000 Breaking Long Streak

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Not-seasonally-adjusted first time claims for unemployment surged back above 300,000 for the first time in over two months in today's re...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

IBD Poll Puts Unemployment At 31%: 47.9 Million Looking For Work, 2 Times Higher Than BLS U6 Level

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Here : Investor's Business Daily has been polling Americans each month on the job market for well over a decade. Unlike the numbers rele...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

4th Delay Of ObamaCare Provisions Revealed By The New York Times

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The case builds for dropping insurance coverage altogether. Its basic cost only soars, and what it covers only plummets. That was the whole ...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

The Millions Who Lost Their Jobs, 2001-2012

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What follows are first time claims for unemployment compensation, not-seasonally-adjusted, by year from 2001 through 2012, using Department ...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

The Millions Who Lost Their Jobs, 2006-2012

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What follows are first time claims for unemployment compensation, not-seasonally-adjusted, by year from 2006 through 2012, using Department ...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

236K New Jobs Last Month, Or 100K?

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The government report that 236,000 jobs were added last month comes from a long controversial model. An actual private count, as reported he...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Number Of Job Openings Declines

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From CNN Money: The number of job openings fell in April, the Labor Department reported Tuesday, another sign of weakness in the U.S. labor ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Male Unemployment is 11.2 Million, Not 4.2 Million

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So says Brett Arends, here : Millions here are still out of work. The unemployment situation is far, far worse than the government is tellin...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Obama vs. Bush: Initial Claims for Unemployment Compared

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Hundreds of thousands of people lose a job every week, year in and year out, and file a first-time claim for unemployment benefits. The fede...