WesterCon, Job Numbers, and Obamacare, Oh My!

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

I am sitting in the hotel lobby of WesterCon, in Pasadena, CA. Kind of a slow convention thus far, but there are some good science panels slated for today and tomorrow. Meanwhile, watching CNN, they talk about the "2 million" jobs that the stimulus has created or saved. How do they ...

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2 Million Jobs Lost in First 100 Days

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

On Friday (I'm a little late on writing about this), the jobs report came out that 539,000 more jobs were lost in April. Although an improvement over previous months, it is still high, and pushed the unemployment rate up to 8.9%, the highest level since 1983. Yep, unemployment is higher ...

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