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More 'green jobs' in petroleum, coal than in wind and solar, government says
There are more “green jobs” in the American coal and petroleum manufacturing sectors than there are in the solar and wind energy power generation sectors, according to data released Tuesday by the federal government. The jobs numbers, released Tuesday...
Here's the real unemployment rate --- Government's 'headline' statistics ...
The real unemployment rate for December 2012 is closer to 23 percent, not the 7.8 percent reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to economist John Williams. Williams, author of the Shadow Government Statistics website , argues that the...
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The Big Unemployment Lie The Media Keeps Spinning… December 10, 2012 The mainstream media is heralding the decline of the official unemployment rate to 7.7 percent as evidence that the U.S. economy is improving. But it i...4 opinions2012/12/10 16:22:29
At least two economists at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) have contributed to President Barack Obama’s campaign. Harley Frazis of Bethesda, MD, has contributed at least $2,000 to Obama and $9,000 to the Democratic ...1 opinion2012/10/05 20:05:35
Rush Limbaugh just happened to predict that the BLS would release just such a promising statistic. And New Jersey's Dwight Kehoe presents ten inconvenient facts (inconvenient because we know them) that totally destroy the...150 opinions2012/10/09 02:27:08
The topic of “jobs” was prominent in Wednesday’s debate. Whether “jobs” is a four letter word, or a three letter word as V.P. Joe Biden once said, it is one of the most important subjects of the election – and the ...10 opinions2012/10/05 14:56:47
Despite a growing population, fewer Americans have jobs today than when Obama took office. And the jobs pay less, too. With the release Friday morning of the August job numbers , there are still 261,000 fewer Americans em...26 opinions2012/09/09 02:36:31
The June Jobs Report was dismal enough. The top-line job growth number missed even the low end of expectations and the overall unemployment remained unchanged. But, tucked away in the report was a more ominous sign. Almost...1 opinion2012/07/08 12:10:45
Darrell Issa’s been focused on their “green jobs” calculations for months and finally got his chance to grill a BLS bigwig on their bean-counting: The Bureau of Labor Statistics states a green job is either: a business tha...2 opinions2012/06/07 17:49:47
Before you start believing the progressive's lies about obama's job growth, you need to look at the real jobs numbers. The labor force participation rate. http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet 63.6% the last...11 opinions2012/05/29 23:00:42
See: http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm I urge everyone to contact your fed reps and senators telling them NO amnesty. See: http://www.alipac.us/f8/contact-info-senate-judiciary-committ... Anyone with an IQ ab...6 votes2013/05/07 18:34:16
Unemployment rate while many like to think unemployment is down. With every single drop in unemployment. It has coincided with a drop in labor force participation. Meaning more people are leaving workforce. Going to school...3 opinions2013/04/15 23:43:07
People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million, Labor Force Participation Rate At 1979 Levels Things just keep getting worse for the American worker, and by implication US economy, where as we have shown many...11 opinions2013/04/05 14:50:28
According to the BLS, prices are dropping, including such areas as food and fuel. Funny, I haven't noticed anything close to a price drop at the grocer or the pump. Regardless, taking this data at face value, it ...8 opinions2012/01/19 00:27:04
"Had that portion of the decline in the labor force participation rate since 2007 that is attributable to neither the aging of the baby boomers nor the downturn in the business cycle (on the basis of the experience in prev...25 opinions2012/01/31 23:36:44
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm10 opinions2012/12/07 14:07:11
Seventy-three percent of the new civilian jobs created in the United States over the last five months are in government, according to official data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In June, a total of 142,41...24 opinions2012/12/09 11:25:22
The economists who work at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) have donated money to President Obama's campaign. This alone does not signal alarms about the accuracy and integrity of the report, but other details combined...18 opinions2012/10/05 20:29:07
Wednesday, August 03, 2011 States cutting Unemployment Insurance benefits by CalculatedRisk on 8/03/2011 03:14:00 PM Here is a depressing report from the National Employment Law Project: States Made Unprecedented Cuts to...19 opinions2011/08/22 01:25:45
Double Dip Recession on the Way?217 votes2011/07/09 15:57:59