Articles Tagged with unemployment

Congressman To Introduce Legislation To Ban Trillion Dollar Coin

Trillion dollar coin illegal

Just when you thought the insanity over the nation’s 16 trillion dollar debt and our government’s total unwillingness to reduce deficit couldn’t get any worse, some lunatic decided minting a trillion dollar platinum coin would be the perfect way to allow the President to pay for all those bloated government programs without the approval of… Read more »

Jobless Claims Rise Again While Media Focuses On Akin

Media Talks About Akin While Unemployment Claims Increase

Commentary | With less than 80 days to go until what many political pundits are calling “the most important election in American history,” the media is still ignoring another week of rising jobless claims, unemployment, the struggling economy, and the Medicare debate to focus almost entirely on one outrageously dumb comment by Rep. Todd Akin…. Read more »

Georgia Quietly Revoking Unemployment Benefits For Failed Drug Tests

Florida Welfare Drug Testing Failure

The war on welfare is in full swing in Georgia, with a new program currently underway revoking unemployment benefits from recipients who test positive for drugs during their job search. Unlike the many programs proposed in various states actively and directly testing people on unemployment, food stamps or other forms of assistance, the Georgia program… Read more »

Unemployment Benefits For 200K+ Americans Come To An End

Unemployment Rate Drops

Unemployment benefits have been a point of contention in recent years among lawmakers, though less so in the past few quarters than the ones preceding it. While working Americans pay into the services to have a safety net should they be laid off or downsized, many others view the insurance as a form of “welfare,”… Read more »

Unemployment: 1 in 2 New Graduates Either Jobless Or Underemployed

College Graduate Unemployment

The Associated Press reports that a weak labor market has already left 50% of young college graduates either underemployed or without a job entirely. The 2012 graduated college class is expected to have a tough time in the U.S. job market. Those recent graduates with bachelor’s degrees are increasingly finding themselves in low-earning occupations such… Read more »

Unemployment Drops To 8.2% As Employers Plan To Add More Jobs

Unemployment Rate Drops

Good news for job seekers in March as the private sector added 120,000 new positions, helping unemployment fall to just 8.2 percent according to a Labor Department report released on Friday. While the rate has steadily dropped over the last few months thanks to a stock market on the rise, economists actually expected 210,000 jobs… Read more »