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The Discouraging Unemployment Picture
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has a great deal to say about the November 2011 unemployment numbers and the October numbers from the metro areas. The unemployment rate fell to 8.6 percent from 9 percent in November. In October, the unemployment rates fell in 281 of the 372 metro areas the BLS watches. The pictures tell a far more discouraging tale. These graphs are from the BLS site, using their data. None of the graphs present … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Original writing, Reporting, Unemployment
Unemployment for July 2011
The slideshow illustrates the unemployment data for each July for the last decade, 2002 to 2011. … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Analysis, Original writing, Reporting, Unemployment
Obama Administration job claims
January2009 June2010 Change Employed 142,221,000 139,119,000 -3,102,000 LOSS Total Unemployed 12,653,000 15,830,000 3,177,000 INCREASE Unemployed 11,919,000 14,623,000 2,704,000 INCREASE Discouraged 734,000 1,207,000 473,000 INCREASE True unemployment rate 8.90% 11.38% INCREASE Participation rate 65.70% 64.70% -1.00% DROP Employment/Population ratio 60.60% 58.50% -2.10% DROP The White House and its allies have been touting the claims contained in the Council of Economic Advisers’ latest quarterly report that the Recovery Act is already responsible for 2.5 to 3.6 million – or about 3 million – jobs The table above was created using the data from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. These are the government’s own numbers, used by their agencies and a wide variety … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Analysis, Original writing, Reporting, Unemployment
U.S. unemployment for June 2010
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has this to say about the employment / unemployment situation in June 2010: In June, about 2.6 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, an increase of 415,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Original writing, Reporting, Unemployment
Poverty in America 2007
The Census Bureau is scheduled to release its annual report titled “Income, Poverty, Health Insurance Coverage and American Community Survey: 2007″ on August 26, 2008. This will be the fourth year that America’s North Shore Journal has covered the report. The report is always a year behind reality. We’ll be looking at a mass of statistics from 2007 and preceding years covering income, poverty and health insurance coverage, broken down in many different ways, by sex, by family type, by ethnicity and by age among others. America’s North Shore Journal will concentrate its coverage on the income and poverty statistics. Bluntly, the numbers on health insurance coverage have been kept for less than a decade so they’re worth little to us for any realistic analysis. Let’s take a preliminary look at 2007: Average unemployment … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Analysis, Original writing, Poverty
Harry Reid: Hispanic Unemployment Disproportionately High
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the following on August 1: Senate Democrats responded today to a Department of Labor report which indicates that the nation shed another 51,000 jobs in July – the seventh straight month of losses – as unemployment rose to a four-year high of 5.7 percent and Chevron announced a second-quarter profits of nearly $6 billion. Democrats also called attention to the disproportionately higher unemployment rate among Hispanic American workers. According to the … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Analysis, Original writing, Unemployment
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