Understanding the Unemployment Deception
Mac Slavo SHTF Yahoo! reports, and the mainstream media parrots, that the “unemployment rate is sinking at the fastest pace in half a century because…
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Record January snow adds to cloudy US jobs market
Economic gridlock © AFP/Getty Images/File Scott Olson AFP/Activist Post WASHINGTON (AFP) – US job creation slowed to a halt in January as winter storms gripped…
Only 47% Of Working Age Americans Have Full Time Jobs
Business Insider VK, roving reporter for The Automatic Earth, has been playing with the numbers from the January 7 employment report issued by the U.S….
Perpetual War for Perpetual Employment?
Anthony Wile Daily Bell Here at the Daily Bell, we remain convinced that America’s serial wars have continually deepened that great country’s economic crisis. And…
Wage Drop Has Been Worst In Decades
William Alden Huffington Post Wages for American workers have fallen dramatically since the financial crisis, in what will likely turn out to be the worst…
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…
Spinning Unemployment in a Collapsing Empire
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…
Numbers Racket (Charlie McGrath Video)
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Jobs Are Trickling In, But Millions Have Given Up Looking For Work
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…
Unemployed: Stop Searching for a Job, Learn to Forage and Produce
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…
Coming Home Homeless: The New Homeless Among Veterans
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…
U.S. changes how it measures long-term unemployment
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…
Payrolls Drop in 28 U.S. States, Joblessness Rises in 21 in Labor Setback
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…
Number of Adult Children Living with Parents Spikes as Homeownership Plummets
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…