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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on September 07, 2009, 04:11:30 PM
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Newsjock (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-06-09 03:07 PM
Original message
Two out of five working-age Californians jobless, study says
Source: Associated Press
... A report to be released publicly today found that two of five working-age Californians do not have a job, underscoring the challenges in one of the toughest job markets in decades. The last time employment levels among this group were this low was February 1977, according to a study by the California Budget Project, a Sacramento-based nonprofit research group that advocates for lower- and middle-income families.
... Jean Ross, executive director of the California Budget Project, recommended Congress adopt a second extension of unemployment insurance benefits.
... Asked to explain the difference between her unemployment figure and the government's, Ross said the government's official jobless rate does not factor in working-age Californians who stay out of the work force by choice, such as stay-at-home parents, or those who have simply given up searching for work.
Taking those people into account, she said, translates to a 57.5 percent employment rate for the state, which is slightly less than the 57.6 percent recorded in 1977. The California Budget Project used figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Read more: http://www.rgj.com/article/20090906/BIZ/909060326
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-06-09 03:34 PM
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2. They've gutted California
Enron. The corporations. And, I'm putting some blame here on the Forest Service too.
Taxes and environmentalists had nothing to do with it?
Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-06-09 03:34 PM
Response to Original message
2. They've gutted California
Enron. The corporations. And, I'm putting some blame here on the Forest Service too.
kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-06-09 07:09 PM
Response to Reply #2
12. Republicans have been targeting CA for destruction for decades.
Looks like another Mission Accomplished (TM).
defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-06-09 06:13 PM
Response to Reply #5
7. Right . . . I meant to post a thread asking how LABOR DAY is being celebrated in MSM?????
50,000 of our factories have closed in the last ten years!
High taxes and higher wages might do that.
defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-06-09 11:55 PM
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31. We have to have manufacturing ....it would be insane not to . .
and I was just reading that it is expanding again somewhat --
and Obama has appointed someone to spur it on!!
I'm for shutting the doors -- and I'd be very against having any
manufacturer who's abandoned America in order to harvest slave labor
in other nations come back here!
Meanwhile, we're being given a load of crap in electronics which have
to be replaced over and again -- from keyboards to toaster ovens!
Great, just :censored: great. A czar in the pocket of the unions to run ruin manufacturing.
title of thread modified by franksolich; sorry for the inconvenience
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Didn't George Bush get flack for his "delayed reaction" to 9-11 of seven minutes?
How come Bo's not getting flak for his delayed reaction to this, of several months?
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Leftism is working just as designed in California
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-06-09 07:09 PM
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12. Republicans have been targeting CA for destruction for decades.
Looks like another Mission Accomplished (TM).
Who's been running California for a godawful long time now?
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Who's been running California for a godawful long time now?
The DUmmies won't see the forest for the trees. :mental:
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The DUmmies won't see the forest for the trees. :mental:
Yeah, this gets my goat.
The primitives bitch about crime in Chicago or corruption in Seattle or squalor in Boston or unemployment in Detroit, all the time forgetting who's been running these places for decades, generations.
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Or the cesspool that is New Orleans - has NO ever in history had a Republican mayor?
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Fun Fact: California eats up 35% of total federal welfare.
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Fun Fact: California eats up 35% of total federal welfare.
Not a surprise.
They get more than "their fair share".
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Not a surprise.
They get more than "their fair share".
Someone has to pay for the illegal immigrants starving artists.
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Someone has to pay for the illegal immigrants starving artists.
let them starve
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Taking those people into account, she said, translates to a 57.5 percent employment rate for the state
I believe it. Doug's ex-wife, poor stupid Beth, the dumbest person on all the internets, hasn't
made a dime in over two years. And she's been validated by the DUmp as a writer and thinker.
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I believe it. Doug's ex-wife, poor stupid Beth, the dumbest person on all the internets, hasn't
made a dime in over two years. And she's been validated by the DUmp as a writer and thinker.
Mythsage on a corner of San Fran selling copier copies of his stories.... "Fifty cents?" he says to those passing by holding up a stapled copy. "Quarter?" He asks hopefully as the potential customer walks away.
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Someone has to pay for the illegal immigrants starving artists.
Let'em eat lead paint.
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Fun Fact: California eats up 35% of total federal welfare.
Doesn't do much for all that "Blue states support the Red ones" propaganda the DUmpmonkeys are so fond of...
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What are they worried about? Biden said the stimulus is working.
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What are they worried about? Biden said the stimulus is working.
Obama said Americans have selective amnesia and have forgotten how bad things were seven months ago. Stimulus is working, the economy is recovering. Do you think DUmmies will believe?
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Will the Kalafornicators send the illegals back to Mexico and take their jobs? Not likely.....that'd mean they might have to actually work for a change.
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Maybe it has something to do with sky high tax rates, outragous regulations, unions, and the only thing in the windshield is higher taxes and more regulation. Would want me to start a business there.
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Yessssss...muahahahaha. Our eeeevil plan has worked, fellow extremists! We have destroyed Kahleefornyeea!!!
~Rarl Kove.
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So how many of the 60% work for Federal, State, or local government...?
:evillaugh:
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Mythsage on a corner of San Fran selling copier copies of his stories.... "Fifty cents?" he says to those passing by holding up a stapled copy. "Quarter?" He asks hopefully as the potential customer walks away.
FGL, not only would I not pay a quarter, he would have to pay me a handsome sum to read his stuff. I simply cannot get through it without sighing and giving up. And the ones he posts with all the horrible mixed metaphors? I feel truly embarassed for him.
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FGL, not only would I not pay a quarter, he would have to pay me a handsome sum to read his stuff. I simply cannot get through it without sighing and giving up. And the ones he posts with all the horrible mixed metaphors? I feel truly embarassed for him.
Apparently some people nthink bad writing is entertaining. 2 or 3 anyway