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Opinion: Wisconsin Exposes Deeper State Budget Crisis

In the wake of the recent protests in Wisconsin and now several other states, Americans are taking a much closer look at the grim budget realities facing our states today. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker correctly points out that his state's current budget trajectory is unsustainable. But he's not alone. The financial state...

Collective Bargaining: A Brief History of the Key Issue in the Wisconsin Standoff

Protests in Wisconsin entered day four today as thousands of demonstrators and an on-the-run Democratic state senator continued to voice opposition to Gov. Scott Walker's proposed legislative reform. Specifically, all the commotion revolves around a little issue called collective bargaining and the legal rights the...

Winter Weather Isn't What's Ailing a Sick Jobs Economy

Amid some awfully wicked weather, the U.S. economy last month eked out a feeble number of new jobs, and hundreds of thousands of Americans stopped looking for work, which paradoxically contributed to a drop in the unemployment rate. But today's weak report from the Labor Department wasn't the result of a wintry economic...

Opinion: One Cheer for the Unemployment Number

The sharp drop in the unemployment rate to 9 percent should be treated as good news. Any drop, after all, is welcome. But just how good this news is depends entirely on how low your expectations are for this economic recovery. After all, the unemployment rate has been at or above 9 percent for 21 months now -- a grim...

Ray of Hope for the Jobless, Obama and the Fed

(Nov. 5) -- Employers added a net 151,000 new jobs to American payrolls in October, the first strong sign in months that the economy is generating enough demand for companies to hire new workers. But numbers within the monthly Labor Department report provided scant encouragement that the epidemic of unemployment is...

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05/16/12 Walker releases better jobs numbers Source: CBS - WISC-TV Channel3000 - Madison WI Gov. Scott Walker is touting new positive jobs numbers that he said more accurately reflect how the state's economy is turning around.
03/05/12 U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics Source: Ross Valley Reporter - San Anselmo CA Transmission of material in this release is embargoed USDL-12-0163 until 8:30 a.m. (EST) Friday, February 3, 2012 Technical information: Household data: www.bls.gov/cps Establishment data: www.bls.gov/ces Media contact: PressOffice@bls.gov THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- JANUARY 2012 Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the unemployment rate decreased to 8.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
01/20/12 US Bureau of Labor Statistics Source: Projo.com - Providence RI
08/19/11 Bureau of Labor Statistics Source: Twin Cities Times - Larkspur CA Work hours are often irregular, and the work can be dangerous.
08/03/11 Bureau of Labor Statistics Source: Argus Observer - Ontario OR Work hours are often irregular, and the work can be dangerous.