Jobless Recovery

LA Facing "Two-Year, Jobless Recovery"

Reuters | Mary Milliken | Posted 11.24.2009 | Los Angeles


As the U.S. economy shows glimmers of improvement, there is not much even a city of 4 million people can do to take advantage of it quickly. Los An...

Our Jobless Recovery Is Too Slow! More "Stimulus" Spending Isn't the Answer!

Kenneth N. Davis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics


Kenneth N. Davis

The seriousness of the lagging jobs recovery and our ballooning trade debt demand that strong corrective action be taken now as a top priority.

Jobless Recovery: New York Times Op-Ed On The Worst Job Market Since WWII

nytimes.com | NYT | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business


If you are looking for an economic recovery you can believe in, the October employment report is not for you. ...

Reinventing Yourself In A Jobless Recovery

BJ Gallagher | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living


BJ Gallagher

While the outlook for our country is getting brighter, the outlook for hundreds of thousands of individuals still seems bleak. What can you do if you're one of those folks whose job and/or company is gone forever?

Hiring, Consumer Spending Set To Improve Over Next Six Months According To Survey

AP | BETSY VERECKEY | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business


CHICAGO — Results from a new economic survey may ease concerns about rising unemployment and its effect on consumer spending, as forecasters say...

Jason Linkins

Media Struggles To Reconcile Dow Surge With Unemployment

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media


Hey, kids! Did you get the funny feeling in the past 48 hours that the legal tender in your wallet felt a little more bald-eagley? There's a reason ...

Unemployment Rate Rises To 9.8 Percent; U.S. Economy Shed 263,000 Jobs In September

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — Job hunters will face long odds well into next year. As the unemployment rate inches closer to 10 percent, most businesses are nowh...

The New "Hope" of Barack Obama

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


M.S. Bellows, Jr.

These are troubling times for those who supported Barack Obama for President.

Recovering to Death

Tom H. Hastings | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics


Tom H. Hastings

Americans are on Full Oxymoron Alert these days, as we read and hear about this "jobless recovery." Recovery for whom?

U.S. Recovery Leaving Workers Jobless May Stoke Company Profits

Bloomberg News | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business


Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Employers kept Americans' working hours near a record low in August, indicating that economic growth is poised to reward compan...

What the Hell Is a Jobless "Recovery?"

Daniel Denvir | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


Daniel Denvir

The government, media and establishment economists are measuring recovery by the GDP and stock prices, the same measures used to qualify our previous bubbles as reflecting real economic well-being.