Deepening crisis traps America’s have-nots
The US is drifting from a financial crisis to a deeper and more insidious social crisis. Self-congratulation by the US authorities that they have this…
The US is drifting from a financial crisis to a deeper and more insidious social crisis. Self-congratulation by the US authorities that they have this…
Paul Craig Roberts Prison Planet The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday that the economy gained only 103,000 new jobs in December—not enough to…
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Reuters U.S. private employers have recorded 11 consecutive months of job gains, yet the number of people who are so discouraged that they have given…
Good jobs are not returning to America anytime soon. It’s time to stop hoping someone will pay you to do useless tasks and learn to…
Veterans From Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Seek Homes Upon Returning to America Bob Woodruff and Ian Cameron ABC News Jose Pagan is a decorated veteran…
Rick Hampson USA TODAY So many Americans have been jobless for so long that the government is changing how it records long-term unemployment. Citing what…
Editor’s Note: Naturally, a bit of quantitative easing propaganda thrown in; like the “rescue” worked before. Timothy R. Homan and Courtney Schilsserman Bloomberg Payrolls…
Calculated Risk This interesting graph is from economist Tom Lawler comparing the percent of 24-34 year olds living at home vs. the under 35 year…
Jacob Goldstein NPR The number of people on food stamps keeps hitting new all-time highs; as of September, nearly 43 million people were using the…
Tyler Durden Zero Hedge When we last ran this number, the economy needed to create 232,400 jobs per month to get to the same unemployment…
The American Dream It is becoming increasingly apparent that the U.S. economy is heading for complete and total disaster. State and local governments across the…
Job Fair – photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Paul Davidson USA TODAY Not since the early 1980s has the nation’s unemployment rate been so grim for so…
Peter S. Goodman Huffington Post In Washington, the agenda has long since moved on from bailing out megabanks to figuring out how to stop paying…