Department Of Labor Launches New Website To Help Unemployed Americans

For most Americans, Labor Day is a welcome holiday off work. Yet for others, it is just another day without work, following months without a steady source of income.

Almost 10 percent of Americans are facing unemployment, unable to support themselves and their families.

In response to the ongoing unemployment crisis, the U.S. Department of Labor is commemorating Labor Day 2010 by launching a new website to help out-of-work Americans find new opportunities.

Entitled My Skills My Future, the website provides tools for potential workers to search for jobs by entering in their previous work experience. An instructional video featured on the My Skills My Future homepage explains how to use the database to search for employment opportunities and local job training seminars.

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis also released a video to give a "state of the American worker report."

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Comments

[elfish]

10:40 PM on 09/08/2010

elisabeth1208 Wrote: gt; Its not about what people can afford. Its about fairness.gt; The so called rich already pay most of the bills, liberals
> just don't like that they have something left at the end of
> the day.
This is such BS and propaganda:
RICH PEOPLE AND CORPORATIONS PAY MUCH LESS TAXES THAN ORDINARY PEOPLE.
Although the top tax bracket 35%, most rich people pay 1/4 that amount.
1. Warren Buffet says he pays lower taxes than his secretary:
"Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the
$46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid
paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned
$60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent."
That's without using any tax avoidance techniques. If you use tax avoidance techniques, you can do much better.
2. In 2009 General Electic made $10.3 billion and paid zero taxes and got a $1.1-billion refund. Their 2008 tax effective rate: 5.3%.
3. In 2009, Exxon Mobile US = $0. Although they claim to pay US taxes, Forbes points out that their "financial statement's don't show any net income tax liability owed to Uncle Sam,"
In fact, most of their income was moved to "tax-Shelter" countries.
4. In 2008, Goldman Sachs had $2.3 billion profit. EffectiveTax rate = 1%.
5. In 2009 Wells Fargo made $8 billion, Taxes = $0.
6. The Dodgers Owners made $108 million between 2004 and 2008. Federal and State Taxes = $0.
7. Coor/Molson Brewing had a tax rate of -2%.
8. Liberty Media had a tax rate of -2.6%
Warren Buffet also said:
"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich
class, that's making war, and we're winning."
1. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ece
2. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=a6bQVsZS2_18
2. http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/01/ge-exxon-walmart-business-washington-corporate-taxes.html
3. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/03/26/1337021/billions-in-tax-benefits-for-banks.html#ixzz0jVmRHw1e
4. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik24-2010feb24,0,5865964.column
7,8. http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14870850

[frank day]

12:40 AM on 09/08/2010

Don't most states already have a system like this? I guess now we can see all the jobs that don't exist throughout the entire U.S..

[robsreports]

09:32 AM on 09/07/2010

Great. They've created one job for one webmaster.

[MeinNH]

09:44 AM on 09/07/2010

LOL

[gmb007]

03:39 AM on 09/08/2010

Too friggin good!! LOL :)

[changling]

07:37 AM on 09/07/2010

Whoopee a new website! How about creating some jobs and criminalizing excess outsourcing. Buying back our American manufacturing plants from foreigners would be great also.

[JohnBryansFontaine]

04:25 AM on 09/07/2010

"Labor Day" Is Almost Meaningless Now. We Can Change That
by Steve McCallion

"...There's an opportunity on Labor Day to raise awareness that American workers still make things -- really cool things..."

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662237/labor-day-is-almost-meaningless-now-we-can-change-that?partner=homepage_newsletter

[WTFbush]

10:48 PM on 09/06/2010

I hope that everyone had a very enjoyable unemployed weekend.

[healthanalyst]

02:55 PM on 09/07/2010

Wife worked, she's faculty. I had a hard time not making the academia isn't a real job bit. We met in grad school. I bailed for a real job. Got some pubs, got her through school. It worked.

[Elisabeth80]

09:49 PM on 09/06/2010

When a person is employed, he/she has no care or concern over those who are unemployed. And yet when that person becomes unemployed themselves, then and only then does 'recession' matter. So based on that truth, the more unemployed, the better... perhaps that will stop this 'recovery' optimism nonsense & teach people not to vote Obama again

[tarlipps]

12:56 AM on 09/07/2010

Do you get dizzy often?

[JohnBryansFontaine]

08:25 AM on 09/07/2010

"...based on that truth, the more unemployed, the better..."

Ayn Rand lives! ( unfortunately )

[Califishing]

08:53 PM on 09/06/2010

Type in "Dead" or "Deceased"..LOL..It's official America is proven to be the land of opportunity.

[rikster]

08:03 PM on 09/06/2010

very bad humor...

[healthanalyst]

08:01 PM on 09/06/2010

OK top this for a job requirement:

office skills

answers phone 5 years experience

You know, America will die thanks to idiots in HR....

[healthanalyst]

07:49 PM on 09/06/2010

Sigh.....

Well this is useful. Economist. jobs available : 0

Open it up, they're in WV ??WTF??? or DC. real commutable. Or Alabama. They even know what a computer is in Alabama? Probably not, its a Federal job.

Ah well, at least there's a web site. No scientific or technical jobs. What else is new.

We train kids that can't give out change. Let alone get a real degree at a real college.

[saus]

06:43 PM on 09/06/2010

A web page that will show you jobs available in New York, but you're broke and can't get out of Michigan....hmm, sounds like a plan.

[healthanalyst]

07:49 PM on 09/06/2010

Joisey is the other place that needs lots of people. Who the F wants to work there?????

[sheoples]

05:47 PM on 09/06/2010

bachelors degree = tools who could barely finish high school

masters degree = for chumps who couldn't get a phd.

phd = for wasting 5 years of your life

no one wins..........

welcome to united states of economic slavery.

[healthanalyst]

07:52 PM on 09/06/2010

Nah the PhD waste is if you don't get tenure. 5 years?? Where did you go for a PhD? You're lucky is your committee accepts your dissertation topic in that time. You had one of those committees that used candidates for foils in the department intrigues, you're skrewed. Let alone ABD. And half ABDs never finish.

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

01:40 PM on 09/07/2010

THere is old saying:

The A students teach the B students how to work for the C students.

Don;t bet formal education translates into jobs like the leftist would lead you to beleive. It is entrepreneurship, motivation and the free market that allows success.


The Democrats and Obama are taking away the reward for this effort.

[healthanalyst]

02:53 PM on 09/07/2010

But formal education leads to knowledge that puts you above the great unwashed that do the 'want fries with that' gig.

Quit being a fool, its not right left in getting an education. Well, it is, if you're Rush or Glen who FLUNKED out of college barely after one semester. Or Palin who took multiple schools to get a lame journalism degree. Come on, figure out who, where, what, why, when, how and write it up and you're done. Then again, she can't put two sentences together.

[Martha Fair]

05:13 PM on 09/08/2010

See the above posting? This is the result of 5 years of Republispeak and Teabonics. I rest my case here! LOL

[Neets101]

05:33 PM on 09/06/2010

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/LEVELING-THE-PLAYING-FIELD-CURBING-TAX-HAVENS-AND-REMOVING-TAX-INCENTIVES-FOR-SHIFTING-JOBS-OVERSEAS/

" Leveling the Playing Field: Curbing Tax Havens and Removing Tax Incentives For Shifting Jobs Overseas
1) Replacing Tax Advantages for Creating Jobs Overseas With Incentives to Create Them at Home

* Reforming Deferral Rules to Curb A Tax Advantage for Investing and Reinvesting Overseas
* Closing Foreign Tax Credit Loopholes
* Using Savings To Make Permanent The Tax Credit for Investing in Research and Experimentation at Home

2) Getting Tough on Overseas Tax Havens

* Eliminating Loopholes for "Disappearing" Offshore Subsidiaries
* Cracking Down on the Abuse of Tax Havens by Individuals
* Devoting New Resources for IRS Enforcement to Help Close the International Tax Gap"

[OldTulsan]

10:13 AM on 09/07/2010

Actions speak louder than words:

The Obama administration plans to abolish the BLS's International Labor Comparison Program

http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/10/0212/BLS.html
Obama Puts BLS's International Labor Comparison Program On Chopping Block

That is on page 11 of this White House document:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2011/assets/trs.pdf
Terminations, Reductions, and Savings...

That BLS group produces reports like this :

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/05/art1full.pdf
Labor costs in India’s organized manufacturing sector

It shows that manufacturing workers in India make only ~3% of U.S. workers.

So much for transparency.

[tripboi]

05:24 PM on 09/06/2010

So this governments solution is to make a web page? So is the web page going to bring back the MILLIONS of technology, customer service and industry jobs back form India and China?

THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO BRING AMERICAN JOBS BACK TO AMERICAN SOIL!!!!!

[healthanalyst]

07:53 PM on 09/06/2010

Put it in the tax code, that will get their attention.