Showing posts with label unemployment rates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unemployment rates. Show all posts
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Jobless Claims in the U.S. Rose 26,000 Last Week to 397,000

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Last week the total number of first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose, which has many economists worried about economic recovery....
Saturday, January 08, 2011

December Jobs Report: Unemployment Rate at 9.4%

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According to the Labor Department, unemployment rates dropped from 9.8% to 9.4% in December. Sounds like great news! However the economy o...
Monday, June 21, 2010

California unemployment falls to 12.4 percent

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Here in California the unemployment rate is falling, but not making much of a difference. It fell to 12.4 percent in California last month ...
Saturday, June 05, 2010

Can We Afford $100 Billion Jobs Bill?

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In a new opinion piece at CNN.com, Maya MacGuineas (president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the director of the Fi...
Saturday, April 03, 2010

March Unemployment Rate Unchanged At 9.7%

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Over the past two years financial experts and economists have been monitoring changes to the unemployment rate as an indicator the country...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

California's Tax Tactics Undermine Prosperity

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From the San Francisco Gate: California's bond rating is the country's lowest. The state faces near unprecedented unemployment an...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Shrinking U.S. Labor Force Keeps Unemployment Rate From Rising

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From Bloomberg.com : An exodus of discouraged workers from the job market kept the U.S. unemployment rate from climbing above 10 percent ...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Unemployment Claims Rise Unexpectedly

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Despite predictions of a decline, unemployment claims in the U.S rose by 7,000 last week for a total of 480,000. Leading economists had ex...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

California Was Among States With Record Unemployment

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According to an article on Bloomberg.com , the jobless rate rose in 29 of states across the country last month. California, Delaware, South...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Obama: Too Much Debt Could Fuel Double-Dip Recession

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According to Reuters , President Obama warned the country about the need to stop rising federal deficits yesterday. He asserted that if go...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Unemployment to Peak in 8-12 Months

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As the United States continues to struggle with unemployment , the head of the International Monetary Fund (Dominique Strauss-Kahn) announ...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Unemployment Among Youths Skyrockets to 52.2%

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It was recently announced that the unemployment rate for young Americans (between 16 and 24 years old) has increased to a staggering 52.2%...