Oh looksy, the January jobless data report is out! And, just like it’s been the case for most months over the last year and a half, more jobs were lost. Something like 20,000 was it? And analysts and economists and the administration fear that economic recovery might be slower than anticipated. Again. I mean, at [...]
Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’
Road To Economic Recovery Beset On All Sides By Failure And Doom
Posted in Economy, The End of the World, World News, tagged doom, economic recovery, Economy, finance, unemployment, USA! on 02/05/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Poor Job Prospects In U.S Lead To Increase In Military Recruiting
Posted in Economy, Military, tagged Military, unemployment, War on 10/14/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s yet another shitty consequence of the economic crisis: young people have decided their chances of not dying in a war are better than getting a job. Awesome. Yesterday, the Pentagon announced that the U.S. military has met all of its annual recruiting goals for the first time in more than 35 years (if you’re [...]
Today’s Headlines: FEMA Trailers Make Homelessness Seem … Not So Bad
Posted in Economy, Homelessness, Jobs, Lawmaking, Military, Terrorisms, tagged Economy, FEMA, hate crimes, Jobs, laws, Military, Obama Administration, Terrorisms, The Fed, unemployment, War on 07/24/2009 | Leave a Comment »
• Years of state and federal neglect have hobbled the nation’s unemployment system, leaving millions of needy people (roughly 40% of claimants) waiting for months for their checks. The number of jobless Americans seeking aid has doubled during the recession, while state funds have depleted, resulting in 16 states borrowing billions to pay out claims [...]
Unemployment Rates For Blacks In New York City Have Risen Exponentially During The Recession Because Black People Don’t Have Jobs Anyway So What’s The Difference?
Posted in Jobs, Racisms, The End of the World, tagged New York City, unemployment on 07/13/2009 | 1 Comment »
BARACK OBAMA TO BE ONLY BLACK MAN IN UNITED STATES WITH A JOB, AND HE’S ‘MIXED‘: Here: “While unemployment rose steadily for white New Yorkers from the first quarter of 2008 through the first three months of this year, the number of unemployed blacks in the city rose four times as fast, according to a [...]
The U.S. Economy Is In The Shitter (Ta-da!)
Posted in Stuff, The End of the World, tagged broke ass nation, Economy, unemployment, you will die very soon on 06/22/2009 | Leave a Comment »
–>The nation’s unemployment rate is projected to rise for another year, before topping out in double digits, thereby threatening to slow economic growth and increase poverty. So, all those reports and rumors of the recession ending? LIES! All lies, my pretties! Mwaaaahhahahaha. [Wash Po] –>A quarter of U.S. employers have eliminated matching contributions to employee [...]
Fleecing the Unemployed
Posted in Economy, Jobs, Uncategorized, tagged bad ideas, unemployment on 03/15/2009 | Leave a Comment »
We thought it impressive, in a “hey, the government’s like, almost catching up to technology” sort of way, when we read that 30 states were offering debit cards as an alternative to checks to their unemployed citizens. People can get the debit card immediately, instead of waiting 10 broke days for a check, and can [...]
Unemployment Rate Hits 8.1 Percent
Posted in Jobs, tagged unemployment on 03/06/2009 | 1 Comment »
HIGHEST SINCE 1983: “Construction companies eliminated 104,000 jobs. Factories axed 168,000. Retailers cut nearly 40,000. Professional and business services got rid of 180,000, with 78,000 jobs lost at temporary-help agencies. Financial companies reduced payrolls by 44,000. Leisure and hospitality firms chopped 33,000 positions.” Oh yeah, well . . . crap. [MSNBC]
