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Depression Level Unemployed for Disabled Workers

New Orleans I was at a lost to figure out what shocked me more, the report that the US Government had never looked at the impact on employment and the disabled, or the stark terror of the depression level unemployment figures:  14.5% for 2009 and already 16.4% by midyear 2010!

The news was, if anything, [...]

Geography of Decline in USA Jobs

New Orleans This slideshow was sent to me by a friend from Hamilton, Montana.  It vividly and graphically shows the more than doubling of the unemployment rate, county by county, state by state, over a little more than two years from January 2007 when unemployment was 4.6% to June 2010 when we were at [...]

JP Morgan Chase Unemployment Scams

New Orleans Part of the citizen pain that comes from subcontracting the handling of public services to private companies is the certainty that someone is making money with no accountability to anyone and absolutely no regard for the economic hardship involved for citizens. A perfect example that I am witnessing close at [...]