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According to a recent CNNMoney poll, a majority of Americans believe the American Dream is impossible to achieve. Even more…
Read More (No Wonder 59 Percent Say American Dream Is Out of Reach)Nancy Pelosi famously claimed that unemployment benefits are “one of the biggest stimuluses to our economy” that “creates jobs faster…
Read More (Employment and Jobs Have Grown Faster since the EUC Program Expired)While it operated, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program provided record amounts of financial assistance to over 24 million long-term…
Read More (What Happened Since Extended Unemployment Benefits Ended?)Rhetoric “[Sen. Jack] Reed said he had consulted with state officials to vet potential problems. ‘We have been talking to…
Read More (Despite Senate Claims, National UI Administrators’ Association Says Problems with Senate Extension Are So Serious Some States Might Not Operate Program at All)White House Two Months Ago: Decline in labor force participation increases inequality (i.e. the “defining challenge of our time”) and…
Read More (White House Sings New Tune on Labor Force, Now that CBO Says ObamaCare Will Decrease it By Over 2 Million)THEN October 2009 – unemployment rate 10.0%; debt $7.5 trillionWhen an extension of federal unemployment benefits was paid for, the…
Read More (Having It Both Ways?)Rhetoric“A well designed recovery plan will not only create numerous jobs, but also many jobs paying good wages and providing…
Read More (Apparently It Wasn’t a “Well Designed Recovery Plan”)In the wake of recessions, the Federal government typically creates a “temporary” Federal unemployment benefits program for long-term unemployed workers…
Read More (Federal Unemployment Benefits, Supersized)Economists say the 2007-09 recession officially ended in June 2009. Yet, as the fifth year of the “Obama Recovery” begins,…
Read More (In the Fifth Year of the “Obama Recovery,” Another Discouraging Labor Day for American Workers)The headlines citing last week’s jobs report as the lowest unemployment rate in years may have been technically accurate, but…
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