Unemployment Tag

“over 66 percent expect that the size of their workforce will either stay the same or decrease over the next year”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 19, 2011 11 Comments

Those are the findings of a survey of CEO's by ChiefExecutive.net (h/t @billhobbs): Unemployment numbers remain consistently high and CEOs are wary of future business conditions. In fact, chief executives are so pessimistic that over 66 percent expect that the size of their workforce will either...

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If this is “halfway there,” can you imagine what “there” will be?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 18, 2011 18 Comments

It's hopeless with the current man at top. Flickers of job hope quickly fade because there is a cloud hanging over the country's economy and job growth: The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week rose back above the 400,000 level in the latest week,...

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It’s the vacation, stupid

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 17, 2011 9 Comments

Obama has a jobs plan.  He will tell us when he is ready.  Until then, just chill. It's early in the day, but this Tweet by Mark Knoller of CBS News already is the winner of the Obama Jobs Plan Tweet of the Day, both because it...

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Texas is the sponge soaking up Obama’s unemployment mess

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 16, 2011 35 Comments

There is a very interesting blog post at Political Math (via Instapundit) explaining why the attacks on Rick Perry based on Texas' job growth will fail. The attack on Perry, which the Axelrod/Plouffe message machine is pushing, is that Texas still has unemployment near the national average, any...

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Nonsense

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 05, 2011 9 Comments

I told you this was coming. From Reuters via Yahoo, in explaining why the new unemployment numbers, while better than "expected," still were not great: A stand-off between Democrats and Republicans over raising the country's debt ceiling poisoned the atmosphere for employers and consumers....

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The bus tour cannot escape Obama’s Catch-2012

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2011 4 Comments

In light of Obama's "Putting Americans back to work" campaign theme and bus tour, it is worth revisiting Obama's Catch-2012: The only way for Obama to stimulate the enormous private sector job growth needed to ensure Obama’s reelection is for Obama to announce he is not...

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