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2014-04-21 Economy

California Unemployment Holds Steady At Dismal 8.1%

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Posted by Fred 2014-04-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Yet the dimwits there will continue to vote for the same party and government that shackles them.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-04-21 06:39|| 2014-04-21 06:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Remembering, of course, that the numbers do not reflect the long term underemployed and the unemployed who've simply given up, either having applied for disability, retirement, or became an unintentional housespouse. A friend who used to be an untenured philosophy professor, for instance, is now working as a handicapped van driver.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-04-21 08:30|| 2014-04-21 08:30|| Front Page Top

Is it just me, or is there some sort of identifiable pattern developing ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-21 08:49|| 2014-04-21 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 They wanted shovel ready jobs. Now dig ditches, Dims.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-04-21 09:20|| 2014-04-21 09:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Shovel ready jobs? Approve the Keystone pipeline and make them dig it by hand.

Posted by AlanC 2014-04-21 11:21|| 2014-04-21 11:21|| Front Page Top

#6 We added professionals and business jobs, but it looks like we have enough 7-11 clerks and landscapers to and bankers to last us 1,000 years.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2014-04-21 16:51|| 2014-04-21 16:51|| Front Page Top

#7 8.1%? At least.

Posted by gorb 2014-04-21 22:14|| 2014-04-21 22:14|| Front Page Top

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