Unemployment
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Do Nothing Dem Congress Slow-Bleeding US Auto Industry
heydon't Unions vote FOR Democrats? Weird love affair, that This just in: GM, Ford, Toyota Plunge as Buyers Reject Big Trucks . General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and Ford Motor Co., the biggest auto retailers in the U.S., said June sales... Full Article At Redstate
More jobs losses; candidates respond
From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro June saw a loss of 62,000 jobs and Unemployment held at 5.5%, according to a new government jobs report. VIDEO: A Race for the White House panel discusses ... Full Article At MSNBC - First Read
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Economy Sheds 62,000 Jobs in June
New Labor Department figures show Unemployment rate holding steady at 5.5%.... Full Article At Time - The Page
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Employers Cut Jobs For Sixth Straight Month
Washington — Employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the Economy's fragile state. The ... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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The Jobs Report
Today we learned that in June, our Economy lost roughly 62,000 jobs according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Along with this, we learned that even more jobs were lost in May than initially thought. The ... Full Article At The Moderate Voice
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6th straight month of job losses.
The monthly Labor Department jobs report released this morning says “payrolls dropped by 62,000” while the Unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent. June marks the sixth month in a row that the ... Full Article At Think Progress
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Payrolls Shrank Again in June
U.S. payrolls shrank for the sixth consecutive month in June, decreasing by 62,000, as businesses faced with rising costs and a weak Economy shed more jobs. The month's Unemployment rate held... Full Article At Wall Street Journal: Politics and Policy
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German Job Gains Could Be Short-Lived
Experts see the recent drop in Unemployment as an indication of the past rather than the future, and warn of storm clouds on the horizon... Full Article At Business Week
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Employers Cut Workers for a Sixth Month
The Unemployment rate held steady as 62,000 jobs disappeared in June, the Labor Department reported, in the latest signal that the nation is struggling with a severe downturn.... Full Article At New York Times - Front Page
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Recession shortage
The Unemployment rate is unchanged. Maybe we are worrying too much.... Full Article At Daily Mail - Don Surber
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Paul Krassner: Confessions of a Barista
Hi, my name is Paul. I'm a barista at Starbucks--or I should say that I *was* a barista--but I still feel that I *am* one, even though I've been given my walking papers, my pink slip, whatever you want to call it, I've been fired from my job. Just my luck, on Independence Day weekend,... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Is the Labor Department Understating Job Loss?
The Labor Department's establishment survey includes an imputation for jobs created in new firms that are not included in its sampling universe. This imputation tends to miss turning points, understating job growth when the Economy picks up speed... Full Article At The American Prospect - Beat the Press
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Long-Term Unemployment Rises
The jobless rate held steady at 5.5% in June, but the number unemployed for six months or more has risen sharply over the past year.... Full Article At Wall Street Journal: Politics and Policy
June Unemployment Numbers Out Thursday
The Labor Department will release last month’s job figures at 8:30 am ET.... Full Article At Time - The Page
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Jobless lines growing longer
WASHINGTON---- The number of newly laid off people signing up for Unemployment insurance rose sharply last week.... Full Article At Chicago Sun-Times
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States' Jobless Benefits Funds Running Low
The funds states use to pay Unemployment benefits are running low, raising fears of higher taxes on businesses and less money to help out-of-work employees during tight economic times.... Full Article At Hartford Courant - Nation/World
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The Bears of Summer
Rising Unemployment and Inflation have market watchers taking back predictions of a second-half rally... Full Article At Business Week
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Leo W. Gerard: Unions Battle New Age Robber Barrons
After a year in which the majority of Americans suffered the effects of recession, including tens of thousands who lost jobs because of rising Unemployment, hundreds of thousands who lost homes in the subprime mortgage crisis and millions who lost... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Inflated fears of a 1970s comeback
Business & money: Rising Unemployment gives employers upper hand in pay negotiations... Full Article At Guardian Unlimited