Tag: labor department

Jobs numbers for November. 8.6%
ecthompsonmd December 2, 2011

Better. Much better than I expected. We need much more, but this is better. Note that the jobs numbers for September and October were revised up. From MarketWatch: The U.S. gained 120,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate fell to 8.6% from 9.0%, the Labor Department said Friday. The government also revised jobs data for October and September to show that 72,000 additional jobs were created. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had forecast a 125,000 increase in employment in November and no change in the jobless rate. About half of the drop in the unemployment rate stemmed from a decline in

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Thursday Evening News Round Up
ecthompsonmd September 1, 2011

Been travelling today. College grads are losing ground on wages. This isn’t good. We need higher wages, living wages for everyone. Prolonged unemployment is causing and will continue to cause long lasting damage to our society. Everyone is affected. Everyone! I don’t get it. If children are our future and we, all, believe that children are the foundation of tomorrow then why are we short changing the most important gift that we can give to our children – their education? BTW, I don’t care if the president backed down on when he would schedule his speech to Congress. I really don’t.

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How Big Business Operates – Massey Energy
ecthompsonmd June 30, 2011

Republicans, as far as I know, have always been and always will be all business, all the time. They are huge supporters of capitalism and, more importantly, unfettered capitalism. They do not believe that capitalism should be restrained by silly government regulations (to them, all regulations are silly). The rest of us understand that unfettered capitalism leads to massive abuse of workers, of customers and of other businesses. The rest of us understand that without appropriate controls capitalism is not about competition but instead it is about crushing your opponents. Capitalism is about making money and that’s it. Yesterday we saw

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