Economists Disagree With Fed Claim That U.S. Nearing ‘Full Employment’
Say jobs, economy not recovering as quickly as unemployment rate might suggest by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon While the Federal Reserve claims that the…
Jobs Numbers Tank Showing Obama’s Policy Failures
by Peter Morici • FoxNews The U.S. economy created only 142,000 jobs in August, down from 212,000 in July, indicating the economy significantly slowed this summer. Job creation…
Wall Street Advisor: Aactual unemployment is 37.2%, ‘misery index’ worst in 40 years
by Paul Bedard Don’t believe the happy talk coming out of the White House, Federal Reserve and Treasury Department when it comes to the real unemployment rate and the true…
Weak Economy: For every new job, five have given up
The recent job report was disappointing on several different levels. The new jobs number was appalling. The number of new jobs, 74,000 doesn’t even keep up with population growth. In…
Did the White House know about the false job numbers?
by John Crudele Let me be the first to ask: Did the White House know that employment reports were being falsified? Last week I reported exclusively that someone at the…
Obama Administration faked 2012 election jobs report
by John Crudele In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington. The…
Jobless rate is worse than you think
by Heidi Shierholz On Labor Day, we celebrate the American worker. And more than four years since the Great Recession ended in June 2009, the unemployment rate is 7.4%, a big…
A Jobless Recovery Is a Phony Recovery
More people have left the workforce than got a new job during the recovery—by a factor of nearly three. by Mortimer Zuckerman In recent months, Americans have heard reports out…
Jobs numbers still aren’t working
by Terry Keenan The most recent jobs report had a “robust” 195,000 new positions created last month as the unemployment rate held steady at 7.6 percent. Hallelujah! Unfortunately, the problem…
Recovery woes: America’s second-largest employer is a temp agency
by Ashe Schow Behind Wal-Mart, the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider. Friday’s disappointing jobs report showed that part-time jobs are at an all-time high,…
Jack Welch was right about that strange jobs report
Last Friday, a few days after Obama’s debate debacle, the Administration released a jobs report that claimed 114,000 jobs were created. That number is well below the number of jobs…