On April 19, the popular restaurant chain held a widely publicized employment day across the country which drew large crowds. Now the figures are in, and the McDonald’s company reports that more than one million job applications were received that day.
What does that tell us about the state of employment in America? Clearly many people [...]
The employment outlook for most Americans looks pretty bad, but for those over 50 it is downright grim. Businesses just don’t like to hire older workers, even though they are just as capable as anyone else, and often more so.
The one thing about Obamacare (with the eventual endgame of single-payer) that I thought might be [...]
It’s no secret worldwide that the United States is suffering a terrible recession illustrated by the worst level of joblessness since the 1930s. Fifteen million is the official unemployment number, but many additional American citizens are working part-time or have given up looking.
Nevertheless, illegal aliens from Ireland continue to arrive to steal American jobs, like [...]
According to the Vice President, the jobs lost in the “Great Recession” aren’t coming back, which suggests dire unemployment far into the future.
Biden: We Can’t Recover All the Jobs Lost, CBS News, June 25, 2010
Vice President Joe Biden gave a stark assessment of the economy today, telling an audience of supporters, “there’s no possibility to [...]
Funny how the well being of citizens always falls at the bottom of the list of political leaders, if it shows up at all.
Austin, like many cities, is struggling to stretch its budget with less tax money coming in from the crappy economy. It put up a website where citizens could choose which city services [...]
These are hard times for many Americans. Fifteen million citizens are jobless, and millions more are under-employed in part-time work when they want and need full-time employment. More than 6.5 million Americans have been unemployed for six months or longer — a record.
According to the Pew Hispanic Foundation, 8 million illegal aliens unlawfully hold US [...]