Press reports indicate that:<\/p>\n
– The economy added no jobs in August.\u00a0 None.
\n– The numbers of June and July have been revised downward.
\n– The unemployment rate looks stuck at 9.1 percent.<\/p>\n
The Washington Post calculates that “unemployment would be 16.2 percent if it included the swelling ranks of those who find only part-time work and the millions who have given up looking for jobs that simply do not exist.”<\/p>\n
The “job creators” have their record-breaking profits, their record-breaking tax cuts, and their record-breaking subsidies, but they still aren’t hiring.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Press reports indicate that: – The economy added no jobs in August.\u00a0 None. – The numbers of June and July have been revised downward. – The unemployment rate looks stuck at 9.1 percent. The Washington Post calculates that “unemployment would … Continue reading