Unemployment rate to drop to 5.5%!!! (sm)

I think the most encouraging part of this report is in the last paragraph. The U.S. added 120,000 jobs in November, but the unemployment rate posted a huge drop to 8.6% from 9% and a broader unemployment rate fell even more to 15.6% from 16.2%. Why? The number of jobs added comes from a survey of establishment payrolls. The unemployment rate comes from a separate survey of U.S. households. The household survey is much smaller than the establishment survey, and as a result it can swing around a ...

114,000 added. Here are the stats: Total Unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted) : 7.8 Unemployment rates: Men 16 yo and older: 8.0 Men 20 yo and older: 7.3 Women 16 yo and older: 7.5 Women 20 yo and older: 7.0 Both sexes 16 to 19: 23.7 By race: White: 7.0 Men 20 and over: 6.6 Women 20 and over: 6.3 Both sexes 16 to 19: 21.2 Black: 13.4 Men 20 and over: 14.2 Women 20 and o ...

December, not counting the thousands of people whose unemployment benefits have run out and are still unemployed. ...

You can run, Barry, but you can't hide from this: "The August unemployment rate was reported Friday as 8.1 percent — though the real unemployment number that isn't regularly reported is almost two times higher than that, 14.7 percent." ...

The "real" unemployment rate is high at 15%, but it's down from the worst of the recession. The "real" rate includes all those who would like a job, plus those who can only find part-time work because of the weak economy. ...

I first heard this on Hardball last night, when Chris Matthews mentioned it. Knew I couldn't use MSNBC here as a source (though wondered whether MSNBC would be newly acceptable in view of the message he presented). http://rawstory.com/2009/11/real-unemployment-rate-stands-175/ ...

claims in these hard times. Good news, though, for those who like to think we are for the most part good, industrious people. The top 2 types of fraud, which account for most of the overpayment, are committed by...working people. 1. Person on unemployment gets that new job but delays reporting it. You know, typically behind on their bills from being out of work so collect another check to help out. Whatever you think of this form of taking care of oneself--these are working people, not slugs t ...

"The decent, steady, but not great jobs recovery just got a little stronger. But there are still a disturbingly large number of people who aren’t feeling the benefits of the recovery. The U.S. economy added 248,000 jobs in September, according to data released by the the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. The unemployment rate fell below 6 percent for the first time since July 2008, dropping to 5.9 percent from 6.1 percent. Yet wages are still going nowhere: Average hourly earnings ti ...

(Is sifting the web for stuff to just complain about and try to score imaginary points with, right or wrong, really worth anybody's time?) ...

the underemployed number going down. the people who stopped looking going down. ...

Henry Ford, for all his faults, was famous for his foresight in raising plant worker salaries well above the norm so they could afford to buy the cars, thus creating a market for his product. What's changed? Short version, as the planet has continued to develop and markets have been created in hundreds of countries, business can make the products cheaper overseas and sell there too. Plus, inevitably, the identification and loyalty of "American" businesses to America is disappearing a ...

I understand why he wants to drop out. He and his girlfriend of nearly three years broke over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Basically, he found out that she had slept with two of his supposed good friends and also tried to get with a third. I'm not sure why she did this as my son treated her like gold. He followed her around like a little puppy. Did everything she told him to do. He all but stopped attending family functions because she wa ...

Immigrants Responsible For Drop In Crime?May 26, 2010For the third year in a row, the rate of violent crime in the United States has declined. While criminologists study the drop and look for explanations, Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson has introduced one theory -- he says the influx of new immigrants, who tend to engage in fewer violent crimes, has made America safer. Guest host Tony Cox talks with Sampson about his theory and why immigrant communities are relatively less violent. Transc ...

to finding something about that pesky birth certificate. ...

Let her kids eat them! LOL ...

The people have spoken. ...

The libbies don't know how to respond to respect either of language, culture or individuals. I am not surprised by this one bit. This was Kirsten Gillibrand for those who wish to google because you certainly won't hear this mentioned by the lamestream media. ...

to other right-wing hosts including Michael Savage, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. This latest development is characterized by Radio-Info.com as "severe damage" to Limbaugh's broadcast. The significance of the 2-week "barter spots" suspension by Premier is unclear. So much for that couple-of-french-fries brush-off. Links to exclusive reports below. http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/03/12/443195/breaking-rush-limbaugh-syndicator-suspends-national-ads- ...

At what point do the lawmakers realize that what they have been doing is NOT working?! It's amazing to me how they are always surprised and unexpected with the weak numbers each time they come out. Sometimes I wonder if Washington, D.C. is on another planet. Jobs Picture Gets Even Worse as Rate Swells to 9.2% ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT, JOBS, NONFARM PAYROLLS LABOR DEPARTMENT LABOR CNBC.com | 08 Jul 2011 | 10:24 AM ET U.S. employment growth ground to ...

In 1982, Kennesaw, Georgia passed a city gun ordinance that required heads of households to keep at least one firearm in their homes. Crimes against persons which include homicide, rape, armed robbery, aggravated assault, and burglary, plummeted 74 percent the first year, dropped another 45 percent the next year, and has remained notably low ever since, despite a doubling of the population. From 1983 to 1993, armed robberies averaged a mere 1.6 annually, rapes 1.5, and murders (none with firearm ...

Thank God we will have a President who knows about fiscal responsibility and not some dumb ___ who knows nothing about anything! ...

Here is the historical data from the US Dept. of Labor Bureau of Statistics. Funny how the last big (and highest) spike was under the Reaganomics regime. As you can see, it isn't as high yet as it was then. I predict it will peak roughly where it did then and will start to go back down as it did then. If it keeps rising and does not show signs of a drop, then I'll panic. After all, most conservatives think Ronnie was wonderful don't they? &nbs ...

Abbott and Costello Discuss Our UNEMPLOYMENT Figures... COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It's 9%.COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.COSTELLO: You just said 9%.ABBOTT: 9% Unemployed.COSTELLO: Right 9% out of work.ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 16% unemployed.ABBOTT: No, that's 9%...COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 9% or 16%?ABBOTT: 9% are unemployed. 16% are ...

Is it possible that somebody receives SS benefits and at the same time also unemployment payments? My neighbor tells me that he receives both. I think it is possible, but this man is 80 years old and lost his job 16 months ago and is since then collecting unemployment and social security benefits. My question is: Is there an age limit for receiving unemployment benefits? I doubt that this man, aged 80, is looking for a job! He told me that he is so happy looking for ...

I hope this wasn’t posted before. If it was, sorry. I don’t like to duplicate other posts. Democrats seized on the Labor Department’s report Friday that the unemployment rate in September fell to 7.8 percent, dropping below 8 percent for the first time in 44 months. So surprising was the decline that it set off speculation among some conservatives about a cooked-booked October surprise. That’s not remotely likely as playing with the numbers to influence the election wou ...

Unemployment rate to drop to 5.5%!!! (sm)

well, he will be out of office by 2017 - so that is accurate

He promised 5.6% by July 2012 - but it ended up to be 8.3%

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