No Hope On The Jobs Front
Dees Illustration Paul Craig Roberts Activist Post After reading my account of today’s payroll jobs report, please proceed to today’s main article, “Lawlessness Is The…
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Thirdworldizing America
Dees Illustrations Stephen Lendman Activist Post Center for Economic and Policy Research co-director Dean Baker calls poverty America’s “new growth industry.” The state of today’s…
More Than 101 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job
Michael Snyder Activist Post The jobs recovery is a complete and total myth. The percentage of the working age population in the United States that…
Staring Financial Armageddon In The Face But Hiding It With Official Lies
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Activist Post According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy created 236,000 new jobs in February. If you believe…
You Think Jobs Are Scarce Now, Raise the Minimum Wage and Watch What Happens
Dees Illustration Eric Blair Activist Post President Obama proposed raising the national minimum wage to $9/hour during his State of the Union address drawing cheers…
Unemployment Is Not Going Down: The Employment Rate Has Been Under 59 Percent For 39 Months In A Row
Michael Snyder, Contributor Activist Post The corporate media is heralding the decline of the official unemployment rate to 7.7 percent as evidence that the U.S….
More Phony Employment Numbers
Paul Craig Roberts Activist Post Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) calls the government’s latest jobs and unemployment reports “nonsense numbers.” There are a number of ongoing…
New Unemployment Numbers Are A Fraud
Gregory Patin Activist Post According to a report released yesterday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were approximately 146,000 jobs added in the…
Another Phony Employment Report
Dees Illustration Paul Craig Roberts, Contributor Activist Post Today’s employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 114,000 new jobs in September and a…
Spinning Bad Financial News Into Good
Paul Craig Roberts, Contributor Activist Post Friday’s payroll jobs report says that 96,000 new jobs were created in August and that the unemployment rate (U.3)…
Unemployment as a Lifestyle
click to enlarge James Hall, Contributor Activist Post All one hears is that the lack of jobs is the number one economic problem. Well documented…
Exposing the Unemployment Farce
Charlie McGrath, Contributor Activist Post How do you pretend the economy is recovering and report a shiny 8.3% unemployment number? Simple – just add up…
The January Jobs Are Statistical Artifacts
Paul Craig Roberts Activist Post Last Friday the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the first month of this new year 243,000 jobs…
New US data reflects economic hard times
Incomes and home values fell in the United States last year, and poverty grew © AFP/Getty Images/File Scott Olson AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Incomes and…