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Current Events => Economics => Topic started by: Alpha Mare on January 22, 2010, 08:25:38 PM

Title: The Growth of Unemployment
Post by: Alpha Mare on January 22, 2010, 08:25:38 PM
I'm sure Obama's SOTU address will tell us we're on the verge of recovery.


http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html


Title: Re: The Growth of Unemployment
Post by: NHSparky on January 23, 2010, 07:09:21 AM
Better yet--he'll tell us we're not in a recession anymore because we had a positive GDP last quarter.
Title: Re: The Growth of Unemployment
Post by: Celtic Rose on January 23, 2010, 10:07:38 AM
Quote from: Alpha Mare on January 22, 2010, 08:25:38 PM
I'm sure Obama's SOTU address will tell us we're on the verge of recovery.


http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html




It would be nice if it had more colors above 10% from what I understand, there are several counties in California and Michigan, to be sure, that have unemployment well above 10%.

It is ironic, my Great-Grandparents moved to California from Oklahoma during the Great Depression.  If I lose my job, I may very well move the mid-west if I don't find a new one quickly enough out here.
Title: Re: The Growth of Unemployment
Post by: Aaron Burr on January 23, 2010, 03:35:14 PM
Mobility is one of the cornerstones of a free market. I'm sure your grandparents would have moved to New York if the jobs were there. There's a check out girl at a local store who moved down here to be with her dead beat boyfriend. She's from Wasilla Alaska and hates this place because compared to Wasilla, this town is a third world country. Apparently there are lots of jobs and growth up there.

I wonder what other towns are doin' hunky dory in this O'conomy.

Oh, and Wasilla apparently has a surplus of big strong employed men because the check out girl is getting ready to move back there without her deadbeat boyfriend.
Title: Re: The Growth of Unemployment
Post by: Celtic Rose on January 23, 2010, 03:54:17 PM
Quote from: Aaron Burr on January 23, 2010, 03:35:14 PM
Mobility is one of the cornerstones of a free market. I'm sure your grandparents would have moved to New York if the jobs were there. There's a check out girl at a local store who moved down here to be with her dead beat boyfriend. She's from Wasilla Alaska and hates this place because compared to Wasilla, this town is a third world country. Apparently there are lots of jobs and growth up there.

I wonder what other towns are doin' hunky dory in this O'conomy.

Oh, and Wasilla apparently has a surplus of big strong employed men because the check out girl is getting ready to move back there without her deadbeat boyfriend.

I'm sure they would have. 

I always tell my friends that if I haven't settled down by the time I'm 27, I'm moving to Alaska  :-) 
Title: Re: The Growth of Unemployment
Post by: NHSparky on January 23, 2010, 07:18:59 PM
Quote from: Celtic Rose on January 23, 2010, 10:07:38 AM
It would be nice if it had more colors above 10% from what I understand, there are several counties in California and Michigan, to be sure, that have unemployment well above 10%.

It is ironic, my Great-Grandparents moved to California from Oklahoma during the Great Depression.  If I lose my job, I may very well move the mid-west if I don't find a new one quickly enough out here.

Keep going.  CA as a state is at 12.4 percent.  There are counties with over 25 percent unemployment in CA.

Title: Re: The Growth of Unemployment
Post by: The Village Idiot on January 23, 2010, 08:29:19 PM
Quote from: NHSparky on January 23, 2010, 07:09:21 AM
Better yet--he'll tell us we're not in a recession anymore because we had a positive GDP last quarter.

Only if you count government debt spending.
Title: Re: The Growth of Unemployment
Post by: Celtic Rose on January 23, 2010, 09:41:00 PM
Quote from: FGL on January 23, 2010, 08:29:19 PM
Only if you count government debt spending.

Of course you have to include that, you have to make the numbers look good.