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Congress to introduce $80 billion “jobs” bill featuring … no jobs?

By Steve McGough / February 9, 2010 /

Although we do not have the text of the forthcoming jobs bill from Congress, Reuters says they have obtained a copy of the bill.

Famously wrong Obama economist tries again

By Jim Vicevich / December 13, 2009 /

Oh, and just for good measure, “It’s Bush’s fault.” Christina Romer, the famously inaccurate economic crystal ball gazer gazes into her crystal ball again and predicts the economy will begin creating jobs again come spring.

Is the minimum wage increase helping?

By Steve McGough / September 27, 2009 / Comments Off on Is the minimum wage increase helping?

Yeah, don’t think so. So much for the increase in the minimum wage that happened in July. I’m NOT saying the increase in the federal minimum wage directly caused the problem, but the unemployment rate for the 16 – 24 age bracket now stands at 52.2 percent.

Good thing we did that stimulus, huh? Update: Video

By Jim Vicevich / September 5, 2009 /

This chart keeps changing and not for the better. Some analysis here at Michaels Comments. But what stuns me is not that the stimulus is not working … we warned you in February that shoveling money to Democrat public works projects does not stimulate the private sector where jobs are created. It’s not that the…

Balancing The Recession On The Backs Of … Men?

By Jim Vicevich / February 6, 2009 / Comments Off on Balancing The Recession On The Backs Of … Men?

My guess is this won’t garner much sympathy from inside the beltway … not a protected class. Too bad its not whales, dogs or glaciers. (H/T Instapundit) The proportion of women who are working has changed very little since the recession started. But a full 82 percent of the job losses have befallen men, who…

December jobs report: 155k added, Unemployment at 7.8%

By Steve McGough / January 4, 2013 /

Not impressive for the holiday season, but we already knew holiday sales during the holiday period was pretty weak, even though we had five extra days between Black Friday and Christmas Eve this year as compared to last. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has the info for you this morning.

Unemployment up to 8.2% – 69,000 jobs created

By Steve McGough / June 1, 2012 /

I’m writing this at 8:46 a.m. ET, and Drudge has had the siren up for at least 12 minutes, while CNN is still behind the curve reporting the following.

Unemployment remains at 9.7% – SNAFU

By Steve McGough / April 2, 2010 /

This morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics released March unemployment numbers indicating the unemployment rate stayed at 9.7 percent.

Green job? What green jobs?

By Dave in EH / March 10, 2010 / Comments Off on Green job? What green jobs?

Remember all those “green jobs” we were promised as a part of the Obama economic plan? Don’t you believe it. California is likely to see modest job losses in the near term from its aggressive climate change policy due to higher energy costs and other factors, the state’s independent Legislative Analyst’s Office said. Skip related…

Graphical representation of job losses since Jan. 2007

By Erik Blazynski / November 22, 2009 /

Graphical representation of job losses since Jan 2007