The Great Jobs Depression Worsens, and the Choice Ahead Grows Starker [View All]

The Great Jobs Depression Worsens, and the Choice Ahead Grows Starker

Friday, September 3, 2010
The Great Jobs Depression continues to worsen.

The Labor Department reports this morning that companies created ony 67,000 new jobs in August. That’s down from the 107,000 they created in July. And because the government laid off temporary Census workers, the economy as a whole lost 54,000 jobs.

To put this into perspective, we need 125,000 net new jobs a month just to keep up with the growth of the population and the potential workforce


http://robertreich.org/post/1058622195/the-great-jobs-depression-worsens-and-the-choice-ahead


All told, about

22 million Americans are now jobless.

Add in those who are working part-time who’d rather be working full time, and we’re

up to 25 million

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Hello ??????????????

Anybody home at the White House except the DLC corporate wing????

Overturn the Trade Agreements --

STOP the wars which are bankrupting the Treasury --

Overturn Reagan and Bush tax cuts for the wealthy --