We Just Hit a Nineteen-Month Record for High Unemployment [Updated]
Despite adding 39,000 jobs last month, unemployment is up to 9.8 percent.
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Despite adding 39,000 jobs last month, unemployment is up to 9.8 percent.
Merry Xmas from your friend, Republican Senator Scott Brown.
Unemployment will still be around 8 percent by the end of 2012.
This is the first time since May that overall payrolls increased.
"I don’t anticipate it coming down rapidly," Goolsbee says.
Unless you aren't a manager. And you live outside of Manhattan.
Less than 500,000 new people joined the unemployment line last week! (That's still pretty bad.)
No subsidies for health-care benefits for the newly unemployed.
Private-sector jobs grew, but less than anticipated.
Private sector adds 8,300 jobs.
The president doesn't understand why the GOP opposed a recent jobs bill to extend unemployment benefits.
Measure should pass when replacement for Byrd is selected.
Extension of jobless aid doesn't pass Senate vote.
But the vast majority of new jobs created were census-worker positions.
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