unemployment

Stimulus Checkup - 100 Ridiculous Projects Funded by the American Recovery Act

mish — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:31:54 -0500

Inquiring minds are interested in projects that Put America To Work. Please consider this Stimulus Checkup courtesy of Senator John McCain and Senator Tom Coburn. read more »

Rate of Job Loss Slows, But Probably Not Nearly as Much as It Seems

rich — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:05:10 -0500

The latest estimates from the California Employment Development Department (EDD) indicated a decline in San Diego employment between December 2009 and January 2010. But there is always a decline read more »

Should We Believe the GDP?

Mises — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:10:00 -0500

Just because the government crunched numbers and the result came out positive means we are all better off? read more »

Unemployment USA: Moving America To North Dakota

247Wallst — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:35:15 -0400

Millions of out of work Americans may wish that they lived in North Dakota, no matter how harsh the winters can be. read more »

Jobless Claims Drifting To More Acceptable Levels

247Wallst — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:37:26 -0400

The weekly jobless claims data is out and we have a second week of coming below that 600,000 mark. The new figure is down 47,000 to a level of 522,000. The reading of 565,000 originally re read more »

Bernanke Sees Chance of Jobless Recovery

mish — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:33:51 -0400

Given that the Fed's first mission is to delay, confuse, hope, and otherwise attempt to buy time while engaging in wishful thinking along the way, that Bernanke is willing to admit this may be a joble read more »

First Drop in Continuing Jobless Claims Since January

247Wallst — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:25:02 -0400

The Labor Department has just released its weekly jobless claims data at 621,000. The prior week’s reading was revised to 625,000 from a prior reading of 623,000. The consensus estimates read more »

Jobless Army Approaches 7 Million

247Wallst — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:18:01 -0400

Weekly Jobless Claims just came out from the Labor Department and the most recent data shows a drop of 13,000 on a revised basis to 623,000. The data from the week before was revised to 636,000 read more »

Unemployment Now Over 8%

The Entrepreneurial Mind — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:31:47 -0500

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released a report today on employment and unemployment for February (pdf summary available at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm ). read more »

Employment Cycles During Recessions

mish — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:20:00 -0500

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's blog has an interesting graph of What 3.6 Million Jobs Lost Over 13 Months Looks Like. read more »