My father has his 3rd interview thursday for a position he was contacted about back in late January. He was laid off last September.
Another trick is many places get rid of people who’ve gotten raises so they the can hire at the bottom pay.
Essentially a meaningless number unless compared with several data points from "normal" times.
BTW, isn't it interesting that we think of a good economy as normal, and a bad one as abnormal?
The majority of Americans know...
http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2010/04/poll-americans-confidence-in-federal.html
This little factoid is going to cause the Dems more trouble in November than HCR. The Dems have fiddled while the nation burns. People would have given them all kinds of slack if they had made jobs their top priority early in 2009. But the just spent money and advanced left wing causes while people continued to lose their jobs.
Even if we are in recovery it will not benefit those looking for work for several more months since employment is a lagging indicator. Instead it will look like big banks and big corporations are benefiting. So Dems will look even more worthless.
Obama’s faux job creation should really be called his job killer number because we are in much worse shape unemploymentwise since he took office! When I read this one yesterday it really clearly shows just how bad it really is out there:
http://www.businessinsider.com/fully-70-of-american-households-are-still-experiencing-financial-problems-2010-4
OPPPSSS sorry I have two windows open and posted to the wrong place....:O
The whole thing is worse than anyone wants to think about.