The number of Americans on public assistance has hit an all-time high, and so has part-time and temporary employment. According to a new federal report detailed by Stuart Varney on Fox News, there are now 100 million Americans on at ...
Read More »Trending Topics: unemployment
Record Number Of Americans No Longer Part Of The Work Force
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The unemployment rate dropped by .10 percent in March but even one of Obama’s biggest cheerleaders, NBC, reports there is little to cheer about. Allison Linn reported on the network’s web site: “The unemployment rate dipped to ...
Read More »Food Stamps and Unemployment Checks Rather than Tax Cuts the Answer to our Economic Woes?
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) believes the quickest and surest road to economic recovery is more in people’s pockets. More food stamps and unemployment check that is. When reporters at a Capitol Hill briefing asked Hoyer ...
Read More »High Youth Unemployment Undercuts Global Stability
Young people around the world are increasingly jobless, ruining the world’s chances of restoring stability. Nowhere is this more true than in Africa and the Middle East, where “youth bubbles” mean half the population is under twenty-five. Yet even in ...
Read More »When Unemployment Benefits End, Guards Step In
The holiday season this year is bringing two unwanted gifts. The first is that unemployment benefits will end – truly end – for millions of Americans who are still unable to find work. The second is that in the face ...
Read More »The Forecast for the Rest of 2010: Not Good, Says Economist Roubini
Noted economist Nouriel Roubini spoke recently at the Ambrosette Forum economics conference in Italy. Roubini is known as “Dr. Doom” and “Roubini the Realist” in certain circles. What’s the economic forecast for the rest of 2010? According to Roubini, it’s ...
Read More »The Case for Economic Calamity
At long last we are seeing reports of jobs being added to the American economy each month. 290,000 jobs were added in April. 431,000 jobs were reportedly added in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with an asterisk ...
Read More »Understanding the Double-Dip Recession
The mainstream media is rejoicing in the gains the stock market has experienced this year and have joined the government bureaucrats in proclaiming that the economic crisis is largely past us. However, the analysts who accurately predicted the debt crisis ...
Read More »