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Obama’s ‘Forward’ vision for America, Part One: High unemployment for the next four years

by an Unemployed White Male on September 9, 2012

in 2012 Presidential Election,Business & Economy

Unemployment rate under President Barack Obama

Tagged as: 2012, Economic recovery, Jobless, jobless rate, Obama, President Barack Obama, presidential election, Recession, Unemployment, unemployment rate, US economic recovery, US economy

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How Congress is hurting jobs with sequester decision delay

by an Unemployed White Male on July 2, 2012

in Business & Economy,Politics & Government,Recession

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Everyone in Congress says they want to help create jobs and economic growth.

But federal agencies and government contractors in the private sector, which actually hire people, may find that ironic. They are still in the dark about future funding levels because lawmakers have not said whether they will replace heavy-handed automatic spending cuts set to take effect next year.

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Tagged as: Congress, hiring, Job creation, Jobless, jobs, Recession, sequester decision, Unemployment, US economy

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The 86 million invisible unemployed, mostly under 25 and over 65

by an Unemployed White Male on June 25, 2012

in Business & Economy,Politics & Government,Recession

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — There are far more jobless people in the United States than you might think.

While it’s true that the unemployment rate is falling, that doesn’t include the millions of nonworking adults who aren’t even looking for a job anymore. And hiring isn’t strong enough to keep up with population growth.

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Tagged as: Economic recovery, invisible unemployed, Jobless, President Barack Obama, Recession, true unemployment statistics, Unemployment, US economy

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Long-term unemployment is still a huge problem in the economy

June 11, 2012

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The national unemployment rate has fallen from its recession highs, but Americans who have been out of work for six months or more are still having trouble finding work. The numbers are staggering. The ranks of the long-term unemployed swelled last month from 5.1 million to 5.4 million, and those individuals […]

Tagged as: depression, Economic recovery, long-term unemployment, Recession, Unemployment, US economy

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May jobs report show that the economy still sucks

June 4, 2012

Employers added just 69,000 jobs in May, about half of what was expected, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2 percent, the government said Friday in an awful jobs report that offered incontrovertible evidence that the U.S. economy is slowing sharply. Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/jobs-report-is-bad-news-for-economy/article_a1c9026c-04df-5ead-a99c-9a1ccd788173.html#ixzz1wqpXUU7c

Tagged as: economy, jobs, jobs report, May 2012, President Barack Obama, Recession, Unemployment, unemployment rate, US economy

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A journey through unemployed America: Voices of America’s laid off workers

May 14, 2012

Writer DW Gibson traveled across the country in search of the Great Recession’s victims. The result: Not Working, a portrait of America’s 21st-century unemployed. Here are a few of the tales he came home with. Over the summer and fall of 2011, I drove across the country from southern California to New York City. I […]

Tagged as: America, Barack Obama, Economic recovery, great recession, laid off workers, unemployed, US economy, voices of the unemployed, writer DW Gibson

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Occupy movement calling for a ‘general strike’ on May Day

April 30, 2012

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Occupy movement is organizing a nationwide protest on Tuesday, asking Americans not to attend work or school on a day that’s already a progressive holiday overseas. In what Occupy organizers are calling “a day without the 99%,” protesters are planning to participate in a “general strike” on Tuesday: no work, […]

Tagged as: 1%, 99%, economic news, Occupy movement, protests, Recession, socialism, US economy, weath redistribution

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