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The second half of this year will be worse than the first–economically. That is what economists are saying now that they have looked at the Federal Reserve notes, the unemployment numbers, and...
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The weak 2.5% GDP showing for the second quarter has brought dozens of new theories into the shopping bazaar of explanations about America’s growth prospects. One school says that the effect of...
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US unemployment may be close to 10% and the President’s midterm budget review may say that the jobless rate will be above 9% until 2012. Many economists believe the figures are not sustainable if...
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There is a fiction mostly written by executive outplacement firms such as Challenger Gray & Christmas that corporate layoffs are falling sharply. Its survey may be incomplete, or at the very...
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There are ten states which have had unemployment rates consistently above 10% for the first six months of the year. Many also have desperate budget problems, a combination of high social services...
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Economists and the unemployed have discovered that the recovery is not much of a recovery. GDP expansion may have died in June and there are very few signs that it is improving this month. And August...
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The Labor Department said that in May there were 4.7 workers looking for work for each available job. Hiring rose during the month, but it due to Census workers getting temporary jobs. The market...
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The stock market is back to where it was a month ago. The frightening sell-off is over. Now that Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has posted spectacular results, Wall St. believes that both the consumer and...
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The ghost of recessions past returned as the US moved into the same funk that it experience in 1982 and 1983 when joblessness was above 9.5% for nearly a year and a half. Total job growth dropped in...
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The House of Representatives failed to pass a bill to extend unemployment benefits until November. The number of people who would be covered is more than a 1.5 million and increases by at least...
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The secret to the amazing increases in productivity in the American economy is finally out. Companies in the US are not hiring full-time workers. They are gambling that they can keep their margins...
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The housing market is in trouble, and perhaps enough trouble that it will be the one sector of the economy that will face a double-dip recession. The idea that housing is related to unemployment...
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The global unemployment problem is so huge that the total number of jobless in the ten most populous nations in the world totals 1.1 billion. That is only slightly smaller than the population of...
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After four years, Michigan lost its spot as the unemployment leader in the U.S., according to May numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unemployment fell in 37 states during the month. Nevada...
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Consensus estimates are that there were 520,000 to 540,000 jobs created in May, the largest gain in 27 months. About 400,000 of those were due to temporary jobs created by hiring for the Census. That...
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