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2009-10-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

US Unemployment Up Again; Sept Job Loss Worse than in Aug

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Posted by lord garth 2009-10-02 08:57|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 That means more people lost health insurance and unemployment benefits are about to run out for those first bumped to the street. And Congress just voted themselves another raise and proposed another major boondoggle or two or three. Out of touch with main street is the polite way of putting it. (for the 'Burg)

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-10-02 11:14|| 2009-10-02 11:14|| Front Page Top

#2 teenagers (25.9 percent)

Teenagers = 16 to 24 year olds and that rate recently reported is running over 50%. Come out of college with something other than that which has immediate and direct application to the market and its back to home with the folks and the education debt. Hopey Changey - as ye sow, so shall ye reap.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-10-02 11:33|| 2009-10-02 11:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Just think what the unemployment rate would have been if we hadn't "saved or created" all those new jobs under the Stimulus Plan ...

Posted by Steve White 2009-10-02 12:29|| 2009-10-02 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Procopius

The BLS has supplementary tables that look at alternate ways of measuring unemployment.

If you look at the U-6 table at the link you will see the 'unemployed + discouraged' number is about double the pure unemployed number that comes from the household survey.

Posted by lord garth 2009-10-02 12:50|| 2009-10-02 12:50|| Front Page Top

#5 #3Just think what the unemployment rate would have been if we hadn't "saved or created" all those new jobs under the Stimulus Plan ...
Posted by: Steve White

exactly! I think Sheriff Joe Biden said it was like 200 million saved or created, right? I mean who'd make a promise on something that can't actually ever be quantified, then take credit for the results however bad it turns out? A lying pol, maybe?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-10-02 15:50|| 2009-10-02 15:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Wait a minute...according to another member of this forum a couple days ago Obama was doing good on the economy...

cut spending, cut taxes - let those corporations that can't hack it go the way of the dinosaur - the only way.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-10-02 16:20|| 2009-10-02 16:20|| Front Page Top

#7 September Unemployment: ACTUAL LOSS 995k

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-02 17:48|| 2009-10-02 17:48|| Front Page Top

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