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The Unemployment Rate Plummets To 4.2% Under Biden
The latest jobs numbers back up President Biden’s claim that he is getting the economy back on track and America is building back better.
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Republicans Get Some Terrible News: The Economy Will Improve In 2022
Republican dreams of taking back Congress in 2022 are based on voter anger over a bad economy, but estimates show unemployment hitting a 50 year low and inflation dropping.
What Will the Future of Work Be After the Great American Jobs Reshuffle?
As we begin to emerge from the worst of the pandemic recession, American workers and businesses are rethinking how we work, how much we work, and what we want out of our jobs. Dr. Daniel Cox is a Senior Fellow in public opinion at the American Enterprise Institute. His research suggests some surprising findings about what…
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WATCH: Lindsey Graham Says His Family Members “Ain’t Working” Because of Unemployment Benefits
Over the last 15 months, the US has been gripped by the worst pandemic in 100 years. The COVID-19 virus caused many businesses to be shuttered and put millions of Americans out of work. The economy is quickly recovered, but there are many people in the country that still need help. To that end, most…
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Labor Department Ensures Americans Unemployment Benefits Won’t Lapse Despite Trump Signing Delay
The Department of Labor (DOL) says unemployment benefits won’t lapse despite President Donald Trump’s delay in signing a new Covid-19 relief package. “As states are implementing these new provisions as quickly as possible, the Department does not anticipate that eligible claimants will miss a week of benefits due to the timing of the law’s enactment,”…
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Unemployment Continues to Rise After Another 1 Million Filed for Benefits Last Week
According to the latest data released by the Department of Labor (DOL), another 1 million American workers filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week on a seasonally adjusted basis. This is the 22nd time in 23 weeks that unemployment claims topped 1 million as the nation struggles economically amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Job claims…
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Biden Campaign: Trump Has Caused a “She-Cession” with Female Unemployment
The Biden campaign has accused the Trump administration of failing American women, highlighting the millions of women now unemployed in this country. In a lengthy statement released on Wednesday, the Biden/Harris campaign claimed President Donald Trump had caused a “she-cession”, an awkward play on “recession.” “President Trump’s mismanagement of the pandemic has wiped out years…
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1.4 Million More File for Unemployment in First Increase Since March as Benefits Due to Expire
The latest data from the United States Department of Labor (DOL) shows that 1.4 million more Americans have filed for unemployment, the first increase since the pandemic intensified in March. DOL says about 32 million people are receiving unemployment benefits, though that figure could include double-counting by some states. The current data is an increase…
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NPR Business Journalist: Ivanka Trump’s Jobs Plan Is Stupid, Wrong and Lazy
NPR business journalist Adam Davidson has slammed Ivanka Trump’s jobs plan for America. He says the plan is filled with bad ideas and misconceptions about work. Davidson is a contributor to NPR’S Planet Money and has a newsletter that usually covers business rather than politics. But he took a hatchet to the “Find Something New” plan…
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Opinion: Hateful GOP Belief That Americans Are Lazy Drives Resistance To Providing Coronavirus Relief
Are the majority of Americans lazy and averse to work? Would they prefer not to work and to enjoy a free ride from the government? How we answer this question, or how congressional leaders answer it, has a lot to do with what is really life-or-death legislation coming out of Washington, particularly with regards to…
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1.3 Million More People File for Unemployment as Enhanced Benefits Are Set to Expire
1.3Â million more Americans filed for unemployment last week. Although the number of new unemployment claims has dropped over the last four months, several states have been forced to shutter their economies once again after reopening too early, contributing to a spike in cases. In particular, Florida, Texas, and Arizona have become the nation’s new hotspots…
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Joe Biden Blasts Trump For Causing An American Depression
Joe Biden responded to the news that 2.1 million more Americans filed for unemployment by reminding the nation that Trump has caused a depression.
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Trump: Coronavirus Is “A Much Smarter Enemy” Than Democrats and Russia Investigators
Donald Trump thinks Covid-19 is a more intelligent adversary than his political opponents. The President appeared to praise the virus’ intellect during a rambling Fox News interview. Trump spoke to Fox & Friends for around 50 minutes on Friday and covered a wide range of subjects. The hosts asked him about the Department of Justice decision to…
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Joe Biden: Trump Should Be ‘Working Around the Clock’ as the Economy ‘Sheds Millions of Jobs’
Joe Biden thinks the President should be working 24/7 as the U.S. unemployment rate continues to rise. The former vice president accused Donald Trump of doing nothing. Unemployment claims have risen to around 26.5 million following reports today that a further 4.4 million people filed for assistance. This figure is unprecedented. Biden said in a…
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Trump Wiped Out The Entire Obama Recovery In A Month
Donald Trump’s mishandling of the coronavirus response has resulted in him wiping all of the job gains in Obama’s recovery from the Great Recession.
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GOP’s Florida Debacle Raises Question: Will Coronavirus Change the Way Americans Think About Unemployment?
Americans enduring unemployment have typically, in the culture of the U.S. political economy, not been responded to with sympathy but rather with disdain, judgment, and blame. And this has been true, we see, even when the nation has faced conditions of great economic austerity, begging the question, how can we blame people for not working…
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Trump Administration Asks States to Delay Release of Unemployment Numbers
The New York Times reports that President Donald Trump’s administration is asking state officials to delay the release of unemployment numbers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, which sent a shockwave through the economy and forced many out of work after businesses shuttered. The Department of Labor asked state officials in an email to…
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Opinion: American Lives Depend on Telling True Story of Trump’s Life-Destroying Economy
What is the story of the U.S. economy? Not unlike the proverbial elephant subject to scrutiny by a band of blind men, the nation’s economy is subject to multiple narrative descriptions depending on which component of the beast, whether our economy or an elephant, the blind man massages. Some media pundits have argued that the…
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A Peek Behind the Numbers Shows Trump’s Economy Inflicts Pain on Most Americans
Can we call an economy “successful,” if people living within it are being harmed, not served?
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Proof Of GOP Failure: 9 of 12 States With Highest Unemployment Are Run By Republicans
New state unemployment statistics revealed that the fastest way to sink an economy is to vote for Republican candidates.
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More Studies Prove The Economy Always Does Better When A Democrat Is President
“The two Democratic presidents have produced jobs at 7 times the rate of the two Bushes or 2.1 million versus 300,000 per year.”
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Countering GOP Obstruction Obama Initiative Creates 500,000 High-Paying Jobs
The President launched an initiative last week to train 500,000 Americans for high-paying jobs in high-technology services.
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Obama Recovery In Full Swing As Unemployment Fell In Every One Of The 50 States Last Year
Every U.S. state and the District of Columbia, saw their unemployment rate drop from 2013 to 2014.
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Obama Has Best Job Creation Streak Since 1939 So Republicans Vow To Return To Bush
In Republican vernacular, returning to the “old ways” is “taking our country back;” but back to what? If the subject is the economy, it is back to Bush-era economic policies that are wildly popular with conservative mainstream media, but still not austere and severe enough for the Koch brothers.
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We Are Way Better Off Than We Were When Bush Left Office As Jobless Rate Falls To 5.9%
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released September’s employment figures on Friday and it was almost entirely good news. The economy added 248,000 new jobs during the month and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.9%.
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Who Is Lazier, The Welfare Recipient Or The Rich Guy?
The right-wing negativity critical of those individuals receiving food stamps and other welfare benefits irritates me. The recipients are always characterized by the political extremists as “lazy.”
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Lazy Republicans Need To Learn the Culture and Value of Work
It is unfair and hypocritical for a person who has a job but refuses work to attribute laziness to a person who wants to work but cannot find employment, but that has been a defining characteristic of Republicans in Congress over the past four years.
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Thanks, Obama! Unemployment Rate Drops To Lowest Level Since September 2008
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released June’s jobs report on Thursday. The report was released a day earlier than normal due to Friday being a national holiday. The BLS showed that the economy added 288,000 jobs in the month of June.
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Callous Republican Senators Kill Unemployment Benefits Extension
GOP Senators voted almost unanimously to block a three month extension on benefits for the long term unemployed.
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After Killing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs By Blocking UI Republicans To Go On Vacation
Republicans on pace to kill hundreds and hundreds-of-thousands of jobs, send millions of Americans and their children into poverty, and lay waste to the economy; then they are going on vacation.
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Republicans Will Kill 240,000 Jobs In 2014 By Not Extending Unemployment Benefits
Republicans will have killed an additional 240,000 jobs in 2014 according to The Council of Economic Advisers who estimated that not extending the unemployment benefits will have a deleterious effect on hiring.
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John Boehner Tells His Biggest Lie Yet By Claiming Obama Obstructed House Jobs Bills
Republicans are riding a three-year job-killing frenzy and still, Boehner has the temerity to claim House Republicans passed several job bills that President Obama stood on the sideline to obstruct.
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Democratic Candidate For Congress Slams Incumbent For Not Supporting Unemployment Benefits
On Wednesday morning, Tim Sheridan, Democratic candidate for California’s 42nd District, issued a press release. The statement showed both his both his personal support for the extension of unemployment benefits and slammed his opponent, Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
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Republicans Devastate The Lives of 1.3 Million Americans as the Media Stays Silent
The media is not about to damage Republicans’ electoral chances by telling Americans the real reason why they are in poverty, not finding good jobs, and losing their unemployment benefits.
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John Boehner and Eric Cantor Respond to Economic Good News By Planning to Kill More Jobs
It was a certainty that Republicans would use the recent good news on the economy, both GDP growth and job numbers, as a reason to find new ways to thwart the recovering economy and kill more jobs.
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Low Wage Work Rebellion May Finally Bring Down Our Poverty Rate
People should not work full-time for wages that put them below the poverty line, but it is all too common. Now, they’re taking a stand.
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Natural Born Job Killers: Republicans Are Set to Kill 1 Million More Jobs in 2014
Republicans will be killing 1 million more jobs in 2014, and a new report found that their austerity madness is doing immense long term damage to the US economy.
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Despite GOP, 165k Jobs Created in April and Unemployment at 4-Year Low
Despite draconian Republican efforts to tank the economy and impose austerity on the people for the benefit of the top 2%, April was a banner month. 165,000 jobs were created.
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Austerity Isn’t Working So Republicans Call for More Economic Failure
Republicans however, being true conservatives, are pushing for more austerity in spite of the devastation it is causing in both the U.S. and Europe.
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Maine GOP Gov Accused of Rigging Jobless Benefit Hearings for Employers
Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage is accused of pressuring employees at the Dept. of Labor to decide unemployment-benefit cases in favor of business owners over workers.
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Republicans Celebrate as Americans Face Losing Their Jobs
Republicans will have plenty to celebrate as more Americans lose their jobs, people drop out of the workforce thanks to their sequester.
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Republican Policies Result In 20%-32% of Kids In the Poorest Red States Living In Poverty
Republicans in Congress and statehouses have made every attempt to create a permanent underclass living in poverty, and they are unfazed at the devastation they are creating for children
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Gallup Poll Shows Unemployment Down To 7.3%
Gallup’s 30 day moving average poll finds unemployment has dropped to 7.3%. This obviously correlates to the recent BLS numbers that had the right wing in a frenzy of conspiracy talk.
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The Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists Who Attack Job Numbers Are Pathetic
The drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8% has gotten the radicals on the right all twisted and spouting pathetic conspiracy theories about the BLS and Obama. Here’s why they are wrong.
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Romney’s Biggest Lie of All: A $5 Trillion Tax Cut For the Rich Will Create Jobs
Mitt Romney’s biggest lie of all is that his tax $5 trillion tax cuts for the wealthy will spur job creation and boost the economy.
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Obama Eviscerates Republicans with Their Own Job Creator Argument
President Obama has once again outmaneuvered his Republican opposition by using their own job creator talking point against them.
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GOP Reality Check: Reagan Added Public Sector Jobs During a Recession
This is a huge reason for the stubborn unemployment! President Obama doesn’t have the benefit of adding public workers to the payroll, like Reagan did.
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The Pocket Lint Generation: Sold Out, Indebted and Forgotten
Crushed between a pricey education and a worthless job, we’ve left 19-39 year-olds financially stranded in America.
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The Slaughter of Native Americans Was The U.S.’s Original Stand Your Ground
Native Americans were dispatched with the same unfeeling inhumanity then that killed African-American Trayvon Martin, and now they are nearing extinction.
Georgians Tell Republicans Pushing Drug Testing Mandate, ‘You Pee First!’
Better Georgia is helping voters send a simple, direct message to Gov. Nathan Deal and his Republican allies who are pushing a drug testing mandate, “You pee first.”
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If The GOP Continues To Oppose Equality MLK’s Dream Will Go Unrealized
It is sad to admit, but Dr. King’s lofty dream will never become reality as long as Republicans oppose equality for all Americans.
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Beyond the Job Numbers: Who is Working?
These job statistics show who is working based on gender, race, and education.
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Obama Uses Jobs Number To Renew Call For Raising Taxes On The Wealthy
After President Obama gave his statement on the decrease in unemployment, he once again called for a tax increase on the wealthy.
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Glenn Beck Claims that the Unemployed Don’t Want to Work
On his radio show today, Glenn Beck once again blamed the unemployed for their joblessness. Beck told people without jobs to take a lower paying job. Beck said, “We now have people that are on unemployment, but they won’t take another job. They won’t take a job.”
Obama Rips Republicans for Continuing to Block Unemployment Benefits
In his weekly radio address today, President Obama lashed out at Senate Republicans who are blocking an extension of unemployment benefits. Obama essentially called the Republicans hypocrites, “They’ve got no problem spending money on tax breaks for folks at the top who don’t need them and didn’t even ask for them; but they object to…
Right Wing Smears Harry Reid with Edited Video
After the right wing took a beating this week due to Jim Bunning one man filibuster of jobless benefits, they counter attacked by doing what they do best. They spread a heavily edited seven second video of Harry Reid that makes it seem like he is calling the loss of 36,000 more jobs good news, but they leave out the fact that the good news Reid was referring to is that job losses were less than expected.