Showing posts with label Jobs 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jobs 2012. Show all posts
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Real Incomes Have Been Essentially Flat For 6 Years

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

The Full-Time Jobs Depression: 6.2 Million, 5.1%, Off 2007 High

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Full-time jobs hit their all-time high in November 2007 at 121.9 million. Five years later they are at 115.7 million. That's down 6.2 mi...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Today's Civilian Employment/Population Ratio Was First Achieved 35 Years Ago!

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The ratio of employed to population today is 58.7, a level first achieved way back in December 1977. Persons not in the labor force, that is...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Boosting Minimum Wage 40% Reduces Youth Employment 25%

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You talkin' to me? Way to go, Brownie! Story here : In November 2007, teens represented 4.0% of the entire U.S. workforce. In November 2...
Friday, December 7, 2012

Unemployment In November Said To Decline To 7.7%

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Down from 7.9% in October. The report is here : "Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the Northeast coast on October 29th, causing severe d...
Thursday, December 6, 2012

CNBC Shills For Obama, Ignores Big Spike In Jobless Claims

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CNBC obviously wants nothing to stand in the way of Obama and the Democrats solving the fiscal cliff by raising taxes on everybody. It's...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

One Month Later, Obama Still Has Less Than 51% Of Popular Vote

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One month after the election, Obama still can't crack the 51% level in the popular vote. With 127.6 million votes counted, he's stil...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

ObamaCare Part-Times 59 Cedar Falls, Iowa, Public Employees

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Because ObamaCare has a look-back period of one year for determining who must be offered health insurance, employers all across America are ...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Truman Cut Spending Big Time In 1945. The Economy Boomed.

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Speaker John Boehner, wake up. Arnold Kling, here : When World War II ended in 1945, President Harry Truman faced a problem. Public opinion ...
Sunday, November 25, 2012

Pravda Says Illiterate Americans From Communist Controlled Schools Elected Communist Obama As President Of An America Suffering From A Psychosis Called Liberalism

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That about sums it up. From the Department of It Takes One To Know One, English.Pravda.ru, here : Obama's Soviet Mistake 19.11.2012 15...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Was Socialist France The Model For ObamaCare's 50 Worker Rule?

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Mike Tanner for The New York Post, here : Under ObamaCare, employers with 50 or more full-time workers must provide health insurance for all...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Austin, MN, Hires Part-Timer To Save $18K On "Benefits"

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"Benefits", as in health insurance. The guy will work 30 hours per week and make $60K a year, but will get no benefits. Story here...

Community College Cuts Part-Timers' Hours To Avoid ObamaCare Costs

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The Cheerleaders Against ObamaCare The Community College of Allegheny County in Pennsylvania will cut 400 part-timers' hours to less tha...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Republicans Lose Again Because They Offered No Conservative Alternative

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Andrew McCarthy for National Review  here  gets it, even if I would quibble about the precision of his election results: In truth, millions ...
Monday, November 5, 2012

Neal Gabler Can't Face It That Democrats Have Betrayed Social Security

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Here , for Reuters: "There is no gainsaying that the basic purpose of the [Ryan] budget is to dismantle New Deal and Great Society prog...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Unemployment in October Ticks Up to 7.9%

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Read the report from the BLS here . This is the big picture: "Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 171,000 in October. Employm...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Blame Walmart For The Part-Timing Of America, And ObamaCare For Ramping It Up

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From a very good story by the New York Times, reproduced here : The rise of big-box retailers like Walmart . . . with their long operating h...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Obama Sings His Version Of "If I Had A Hammer"

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Well I've had a hammer I've hammered in the morning I've hammered in the evening All over this land I've hammered out class ...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

Transformation After Four Years: Lost AAA Credit Rating, 8.97% Average Unemployment, Average Report of GDP 0.825%, Housing Values Down 13%

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"After decades of broken politics in Washington, and eight years of failed policies from George W. Bush, and 21 months of a campaign th...

Fewer Jobs, And More Of Them Part-Time Because Of Obama

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Population has increased 10.1 million from four years ago, from 304.5 million to 314.6 million. Total civilian employment has decreased 2.1 ...