Recently a study was released showing where the greatest job creation/Losses are over the last 5 years. This is a pretty good indication of what has happened over this period of time. So 40 states had fewer jobs in May 2010 than they had in May of 2005. I highly recommend reading it. [...]
This past week we got numbers that said Unemployment Rate was 9.7% for Jan 2010. It is good to see a drop in the numbers but the underlining information does not seem to follow that people are being hired at the numbers to cause this drop in unemployment. We also received a report that [...]
I am late in putting up my show notes. I am sorry for that. http://fee.org/videos/61/ The Socialist Calculation Debate Good background on how the economy works and compares to Russia’s economic planning. http://fee.org/wp-content/files/American_Unionism_Fallacies_and_Follies.pdf A series of articles that were put together talking about the Affects of Unions on the US. Lots of history well worth [...]
National unemploymentis listed as 9.4%. This is the number of people that are still looking for a job. Now if you include the people who can only find a part time job or gave up looking the unemployment rate is 16.4%. THe interesting fact is with the growth in population only 59.7% of the country [...]