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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (122992)	2/1/2012 1:43:27 PM
From: TopCat	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224728

"The national unemployment rate is at it lowest since February 2009" And still nearly twice what it should be......

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (122992)	2/1/2012 1:44:39 PM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224728

The unemployment rate was 7.6 percent when our lazy, dim bulb was sworn in. It has never gone below this while the POS has been in office.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (122992)	2/3/2012 1:15:18 PM
From: TimF	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224728

...Even the "good" news had a dark lining in Friday's U.S. employment report. The unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent in December, even though employers reported hiring a disappointingly skimpy 103,000 new workers. But the reason for the big drop from 9.8 percent in November is somewhat disconcerting. While the Labor Department's volatile survey of households showed employment surging by 297,000, the labor force shrank by some 260,000. Even though the U.S. economy added jobs in every month in 2010, hundreds of thousands of people gave up looking for work. The number of discouraged workers climbed to 1.32 million in December, from 1.28 million the month before. In order to be counted as unemployed, people must be actively looking for work, so the rise in the ranks of discouraged workers has the somewhat perverse effect of helping to bring down the jobless rate... reuters.com