Mook wrote:

Part-time workers for everyone!

I want the Indian treatment. Pay 3 women to cut my lawn with shears, and it still be cheaper than the cost of gas for the mower.

The jobs opening data is probably the most useless of the econ data out there.

Hey, OnTopicStill

Outsider wrote:

Small biz may not be perfect, but it's the backbone of our economy, so better give some respect.

More than half of total employment is by businesses employing over 500 people.
Lot of people at 100-500 employee corps also.

Given the number of skilled unemployed and the number of employed working under their skill level this is no longer measuring actual jobs missing a match in the work force.

Senate panel to ask Bernanke about Libor scandal - MarketWatch

http://images.cuddlycomments.com/5/48024e2d21a91994a.jpg

steinly wrote:

Lot of people at 100-500 employee corps also.

:

->

"Job Openings increased in May"

Noooooooo!

ACHUTHAN: The US Is In Recession Already - Business Insider

I like the photo they used of Laksham. It looks like he just shit his pants.

Tee Hee...

And so it’s easy to see, I think, how economists become convinced of things that the rest of us aren’t sure of at all — and how the economists often end up being wrong, while the rest of us were right to be dubious.

Anybody can be wrong. It takes an economist to be precisely wrong.

Wealth and income inequality: Who gets left behind - Yahoo! Finance

Off to the weekly beating....

Diamond nobly "gives up" his bonus,

but will receive his munificent salary (everyone should have such--and apparently unbreakable--employment contracts)

"He said Barclays had complied with the FSA's investigation, and once it became clear that some of the bank's traders had been fixing Libor submissions, it paid the £290m fine imposed by regulators and decided that four senior executives should give up their bonuses.

Only once the public's anger became clear, he said, did he decide further action, in the form of his resignation, was needed.

He added that the bank's brokers "made it clear that shareholders did not want Mr Diamond to go".' BBC News - Libor scandal: Bob Diamond to receive full salary

azurite wrote:

Diamond nobly "gives up" his bonus, but will receive his munificent salary (everyone should have such--and apparently unbreakable--employment contracts)

I wonder: what's the quid pro quo? Since he's not fighting for his money--and he seems like the type who would--is there something else going on?

"Go quietly, Mr. Diamond, and we won't prosecute?"

Agronox wrote:

Go quietly, Mr. Diamond, and we won't prosecute?"

Other way round.... "look, I'll quit and forgo this year's pay.... if you pig-fuckers try for a clawback, I'm sending this USB stick to wikileaks".

I have come to doubt government statistics...if they are seeing doom I imagine they all in on trying to make things look OK

So they seen no doom in 08/09?

Until the stigma of having been long term unemployed is removed it won't matter how many job openings are available if only available to those currently employed.

Job opening data is bullshit. Actual openings probably run 50% of what is reported.

Euro Bailout 2012: E.U. Gives Spain More Time On Deficit, Sets Bank Aid

07/09/2012

BRUSSELS, July 10 (Reuters) - "Euro zone ministers agreed early on Tuesday to grant Spain an extra year until 2014 to reach its deficit reduction targets in exchange for further budget savings and set the parameters of an aid package for Madrid's ailing banks.

The decisions were aimed at preventing the currency area's fourth largest economy, mired in a worsening recession, from needing a full state bailout which would stretch the limits of Europe's rescue fund and plunge it deeper into a debt crisis."

Shill if as C Biderman is right about the Fed buying the market to keep it up then all is possible

You are right they were blind then but now...

Duke of Con Dao wrote:

a banker on the hot seat... it seldom gets better... Duke Point

Unless it's a banker behind bars.

edit to add: and at great risk of losing most of his/her assets in litigation w/the feds. YouTube - Man of La Mancha - The Impossible Dream / ラマンチャの男 - 見果てぬ夢

cue Broward's intel gathering

Daily Kos: Updated with irony-Another day, another Wall Street scandal

Ha, America has become a nation of whiners. Now go get a job whiner!

black dog wrote:

cue Broward's intel gathering

My former employer, when they were doing reductions, created as many openings as there were going to be reduced positions while telling the unfortunate that they could apply for those positions, but they were sham openings only to keep the layoffs optimistic until they were finally out the door.

Rob Dawg wrote:

Until the stigma of having been long term unemployed is removed....

So now the unemployment rate is psychological?

I see a bumper sticker here ....somewhere.

Sebastian wrote:

Well, he's not just grasping at straws now, he just flat-out didn't update his data.

Nooooooo......

France Industrial Production month over month (may)

previous +1.5%
estimate -1.0%
actual -1.9%

year over year (may)

previous +0.9%
estimate -1.6%
actual -3.5%

France Manufacturing Production month over month (may)

previous -0.7%
estimate -0.3%
actual -1.0%

year over year (may)

previous -1.4%
estimate -2.3%
actual -4.3%

ANTIPATHY wrote:

there is a great photo of that moment..

We told them.. - Imgur

Yancey Ward wrote:

they were sham openings only to keep the layoffs optimistic until they were finally out the door.

They also do some shenanigans when applying for H1-B visa allotments. Look at all these unfilled openings for which we can not find qualified applicants...

I'd also throw in the job openings that are added after they already know who they will hire, usually someone internal. The net jobs created is zero, because the vacated position is usually not filled.

Eric wrote:

Rob Dawg's favorite time period!

Why, that's half a Friedman Unit!

Dow might be down another coupla slumdogs by then...

Agronox wrote:

Why, that's half a Friedman Unit!

?

steinly wrote:

this LIBOR businesses.

Perhaps there might be concern with other industry reported data being manipulated? How accurate has NAR data been historically...

Jefferies was the clearing bank for PFGBest. On Monday the NFA said there were substantial discrepancies between what PFGBest had reported to regulators in customer accounts and the actual amounts. The NFA said PFGBest founder Russell Wasendorf Sr. "may have falsified bank records."

Jefferies begins liquidation of PFGBest customer positions
| Reuters

steinly wrote:

Hmm, Birch's results from several decades ago claimed that - he claimed 80% I think.

I doubt that's applicable today. Unions were more powerful then and outsourcing hadn't really taken hold. Many of the big companies of that era are either much smaller now or non-existent. Here in MA, Wang and Digital (DEC) are gone, but no major job growth engines have come along to replace them. Many of the spinoffs from networking, HD drives, etc. are now gone or shadows of their former selves.
Genzyme and some other tech companies have shown some growth, but they seem to be a capital intensive and there are relatively few jobs created given the total investment. They do tend to be better paying jobs, but there aren't that many of them...

"The Friedman Unit, or simply Friedman, is a tongue-in-cheek neologism coined by blogger Atrios (Duncan Black) on May 21, 2006. One Friedman Unit is equal to six months, specifically the "next six months", a period repeatedly declared by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to be the most critical of the then-ongoing Iraq War even though such pronouncements extended back over two and a half years."

It bears some resemblance to the "second half recovery" over here.

Jobs openings increased in May to 3.642 million, up from 3.447 million in April. The number of job openings (yellow) has generally been trending up, and openings are up about 18% year-over-year compared to May 2011.

Everywhere I go recently there are quite a few openings - but almost all are in narrow highly skilled areas and very few or none are in anything remotely resembling 'entry level'. Even for supposedly trained workers.

If there is one area where the job market is totally broken it is here - I don't see how we are going to get the skilled workers of the future if there is no incentive to hire relatively weak skilled entry level workers today. None.

If there is a place for a WPA-like program THAT would be it.

Cinco-X wrote:

So basically, America has been stagnant since JFK took office...I call BS...

So do I. I get it there is a problem sharing the benefits of productivity but stagnation in aggregate hasn't been the problem.

I hate it when guys exaggerate shit just to make their point. It weakens their argument and makes them look silly. I mostly agree with a lot of Stiglitz concerns but that was just silly.

Fellow speculators!

What the heck is the deal with Sunshine Heart (SSH)? Something like $3 two weeks ago, and now around $13.50.

Not that I would trade such a thing. I'm just wondering what this new product is that has the stock going up 30% every day.

dryfly,

OT but here is the reply from my urban planner friend in the Washington, DC area.

I don't really have advice for the modular housing contact. There are a lot of would be players in this area, but it is true that beyond the issue of general perception by the public, local regulations (planning, zoning, building) are the major issue stymying potential builders/developers. Because of the diversity of local regulations and particulars of local politics, change in this area will be very slow. This is particularly true now that housing is more affordable than it has been in decades (thereby removing the economic incentive to reduce housing costs through increased density and technological improvements), which by the way is the reason that my consulting business in the area of affordable housing has been dead for nearly four years now.

BREAKING

CFTC sues PFG for 'violating' customer funds

Cinco-X wrote:

So basically, America has been stagnant since JFK took office...I call BS...

You actually read the quote, right, and not just the headline?

"If you look at the income of the typical male worker in the United States today, it's the same as it was in 1968. Almost half a century of stagnation," Stiglitz argues."

This does not strike me as particularly wrong.

shill wrote:

CFTC sues PFG for 'violating' customer funds

barn door, horse, yada yada yada

It looks like the IAM (Machinist union) runs apprenticeship programs in conjunction with employers like Boeing. Of course, if the union is verboten, and the employer wants to avoid training cost as well, it is unclear where trained worker recruitment is going to come from other than industrial cannibalism.

coming to a "confidence" near you ...

The dual hearings on sequestration come as Republicans are making a concerted effort to attract public attention to the defense cuts and press the Obama administration to explain what impact the cuts would have. At the same time, defense industry leaders are warning about layoffs from the cuts and threatening to send out mass layoff notices just days before the November election.

McKeon and other Republicans have hammered the Obama administration for not doling out details about sequestration, the $500 billion in automatic cuts to both defense and non-defense spending set to hit on January 2.

The Pentagon has said it’s not yet begun planning for sequestration under instructions from OMB, and OMB officials have called on Congress to reverse the sequestration cuts with alternate deficit reduction.

...

Most Democrats and Republicans, as well as the Obama administration, want the $1 trillion in sequestration cuts to be reversed, but the two parties disagree on how the alternate deficit reduction to replace the cuts should be attained.

OMB director will testify at congressional hearing on effect of sequestration cuts - The Hill's DEFCON Hill

They would if they could enslave them for say five years after the training.

Who says they can't? Offer five year contracts with the training benefit amortized over its lifetime. The worker gets added money in exchange for the employer option.

dryfly wrote:

They would if they could enslave them for say five years after the training.

So that explains student loans...

The Ultimate Krugman Take-Down | ZeroHedge 

dryfly wrote:

1980 to 2000 was one of the steepest innovation periods in world history. It was anything but stagnant. Its just a matter of who received the benefit of that innovation.

Also - if you asked Chinese or other SE Asians they would look at Stiglitz remarks and laugh.

Despite our political differences, you are one of the commenters here that I respect the most. I have a hard time taking some of these other folks seriously...

Ben admits he had full knowledge of Libor games and didn't do anything about it, the banks involved are in his club.

You gotta problem with that?

Ben says tough shit, our coup is complete....we are untouchable.

Comrade Elmer Fudd wrote:

It looks like the IAM (Machinist union) runs apprenticeship programs in conjunction with employers like Boeing. Of course, if the union is verboten, and the employer wants to avoid training cost as well, it is unclear where trained worker recruitment is going to come from other than industrial cannibalism.

They still need a lot of on the job training - real work experience and you only get that at the work sight.

What is really perverse is that those going through the IAM training aren't obliged to remain union members. If they so decide they can go to work for a non union shop at anytime. And frankly - if the nonunion shop pays well and treats workers well they rarely push to form a union. I have seen defeated unionization efforts fail over and over even in regions with strong union support. The reason? Workers don't want to pay union dues if they don't feel they have to. That is just fact. But if the employers kicks them around our is cheap they will pay those dues in a heartbeat.

Companies get the unions they deserve. They don't fall from the sky like snow - they are 'earned'.

Cinco-X wrote:

Despite our political differences, you are one of the commenters here that I respect the most.

A righty respects a righty.

Around here in Charlotte, they lay you off then if you are good, they suggest you reapply for a job (at the same employer) and offer you half your previous salary...

Whiskey wrote:

Who says they can't? Offer five year contracts with the training benefit amortized over its lifetime. The worker gets added money in exchange for the employer option.

Except that is the problem - they don't want to pay them more. You could always do that anyway without a contract - just out bid those who want to now steal your increasingly productive workers. You lose the contract you were training them to do.

The only way training pays is if you decide to pay the expense of training them THEN get them for an extended period of time at a lower cost to pay back the cost of the training. Or raise prices on your products if the market will bear the increase [currently won't].

So the rational thing to do is do minimal training [super short payback] and pay people less and just walk away from orders - instead of taking a bunch more orders and losing money on them.

I get it - I would do the same thing. I would not go into business to lose money. I doubt many here would.

But it is another example where optimizing my benefit doesn't optimize the benefit to society.

Whiskey wrote:

I think that everyone on an *Internet message board *can agree that there has been innovation in the United States in the past 50 years.

The Internet is just a fad

Cinco-X wrote:

steinly wrote:

Hmm, Birch's results from several decades ago claimed that - he claimed 80% I think.

I doubt that's applicable today. Unions were more powerful then and outsourcing hadn't really taken hold. Many of the big companies of that era are either much smaller now or non-existent. Here in MA, Wang and Digital (DEC) are gone, but no major job growth engines have come along to replace them. Many of the spinoffs from networking, HD drives, etc. are now gone or shadows of their former selves.
Genzyme and some other tech companies have shown some growth, but they seem to be a capital intensive and there are relatively few jobs created given the total investment. They do tend to be better paying jobs, but there aren't that many of them...

More recent econometric papers have showed a trend to more net job creation by smaller businesses, even as they corrected Birch's historical overestimate

But... the big employers are places like hospitals, and insurance companies and box stores eg.:

2011 Globe 100

Largest Massachusetts-based employers

Ranked by worldwide workforce in 2010.
Rank Company Employees
1 TJX Cos. 166,000
2 Staples 89,019
3 Raytheon Co. 72,400
4 EMC Corp. 48,500
5 Covidien 41,500
6 Thermo Fisher Scientific 37,200
7 Stream Global Services 30,000
8 State Street Corp. 28,670
9 Boston Scientific Corp. 25,000
10 BJ's Wholesale Club 24,800
11 Five Star Quality Care 22,500
12 Iron Mountain 19,400
13 Alere 11,900
14 Genzyme Corp. 10,100
15 UniFirst Corp. 10,000

I guess I'm pointing out that the presence of the union seems to engender an apprenticeship program, while the non-union operations are content to cannibalize other employer's labor. Really not interested in arguing the pro's and con's of union for the employee, but it does seem to have a certain social benefit in this situation of training skills.

Whiskey wrote:

I think that everyone on an *Internet message board *can agree that there has been innovation in the United States in the past 50 years.

"They have the internet on computers these days."

yuan wrote:

he said that the wage of the average american male is about the same as in 1968.

And American Males are all that matter right? Might add White Anglo to that.

100% cash here.

No shit...

sound of world tiniest violin playing the worlds saddest song

Ted Nugent bought the amp for it

Folks, Stiglitz wasn't talking about technology when he made his comments. He was looking at it from an income and political standpoint.

And you can certainly make a plausible argument for such stagnation.

Shill never posts about his many losing trades. Living the dream.

What losses here you go loud mouth my disclosure for the 100th time

American Capital Agency Corp., AGNC Stock Quote - (NASDAQ) AGNC, American Capital Agency Corp. Stock Price

SUPERVALU Inc, SVU Stock Quote - (NASDAQ) SVU, SUPERVALU Inc Stock Price

Annaly Capital Management Inc., NLY Stock Quote - (NYSE) NLY, Annaly Capital Management Inc. Stock Price

Two Harbors Investment Corp., TWO Stock Quote - (NYSE) TWO, Two Harbors Investment Corp. Stock Price

I mean what more do you want from me? this is where I am sitting.

Comrade Elmer Fudd wrote:

I guess I'm pointing out that the presence of the union seems to engender an apprenticeship program, while the non-union operations are content to cannibalize other employer's labor.

The latter 'believes' if they bid more for workers - potential workers will see the benefit of going into that line of work and pay for training themselves. That works when the job market is stable over periods quite a bit longer than the time [and cost] of getting the training. The last few decades have been anything but that.

Lurking Lawyer wrote:

Folks, Stiglitz wasn't talking about technology when he made his comments. He was looking at it from an income and political standpoint.

Technology IS an important input or 'factor of production'. It matters.

yuan wrote:

If Marie Antoinette had been alive in the 30s she would have surely remarked that the poors have it better than any noble in the 18th century because most have access to electricity.

Let them eat... OOOH PAWN STARS!?

An easy question-

Which would you rather have:

An income in 1968, or the same stagnant income in 2012?

Racquel Welch of '68

When planes built by minimum wage workers start falling out of the sky they might rethink the benefits of this

Rest assured that the USG won't let that happen.

But CK, Airbus was already pulling ahead..just the facts, ma'am..

So basically, America has been stagnant since JFK took office...I call BS...

The Two-Income Trap | Mother Jones

Rents were pretty cheap in the 1960s. Then the baby boom started turning 18 in 1964. The median boomer turned 18 in 1973.

Healthcare has gone up to $8000 per capita, twice that of Europe, Canada, etc.

$600B/yr year being ripped out of the paycheck economy due to the trade deficit -- gas was effectively free back then and we largely made it ourselves anyway.

So not only do we lose our jobs to overseas workers:

Employees on Nonfarm Payrolls: Manufacturing (MANEMP) - FRED - St. Louis Fed

we lose our dollars to them too, every time we buy something.

OTOH, we've seen wonderful advances in technology and productivity since the 1960s.

But the problem is the rents being siphoned out of the middle-class economy.

Half this board visibly vibrates with their successful rent-seeking.

Well, yeah. Building that shit can the F22 kinda put the rest at a disadvantage. Someone got rich off the deal though so it's all good. And we paid for it!

Whiskey wrote:

Then obviously they shouldn't hire anyone.

They hire people they believe will produce work they can profit from. 'Slaves' are rarely highly motivated workers.

The one area this model pays off is when they can hire college students and coops who are working their way through school - you pay them like crap while they are in school and can't command higher wages in the market [they don't have the degree] but more than a few can be pretty high performers with just a little added real world experience. Then once they get the degree their market value increases a lot and you can decide whether you want to match the market or not.

That actually is done quite a lot to this day but that isn't where the biggest shortage is - its in trades and they haven't moved to this model all that well. At least not for manufacturing companies.

I can understand that...that why there's so damn much advertising...because you did not know how much you needed that Rolex......

Whiskey wrote:

That's not what I'm saying. There is a difference between innovation and the distribution of the reward for said innovation.

Technological innovations always seem to be an actual case of 'trickle down' though... and a lot of the early "IT" invention originated with institutional research, not home hackers in their garages (that came later, and even then tended toward forms of aggregate capital).

Dryfly,

They had workstudy at my undergraduate school...it was great if you were poor...and if you weren't I don't think you signed up for the extra semesters...

They hire people they believe will produce work they can profit from.

I should've been more precise. I meant they should not hire new, untrained workers.

What you describe sounds more like my proposal. How often, though, do they keep the workers after school/initial training are finished? Once you have to pay back student loans, the mandate to find the highest paying job is strong.

Re: BLS Bullshit

The UK double-dip recession is getting deeper, warns NIESR

The double-dip recession has entered a third consecutive quarter according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).

Meanwhile, Sir Mervyn King has today issued another warning on the dangers to the UK economy of the euro debt crisis, saying on BBC Radio 4’s World at One that: "There is a great black cloud of uncertainty hanging over businesses all around the world.

Also see: The Five Stages of Grief

WARNING: Kübler-Ross added that these stages are not meant to be complete or chronological.

It's ok to be F'ing

Bruce in Tennessee wrote:

They had workstudy at my undergraduate school...it was great if you were poor...and if you weren't I don't think you signed up for the extra semesters...

Now they fight over it - the best coops mean $10-20K a year more in entry level salary.

When I went to engineering school I didn't need it - there were so many real manufacturing and lab research jobs available you just applied and got one. Actually got quite a few of them. And that was in stagflation. But Minnesota wasn't hit as hard as the Great Lakes were - my wife near Milwaukee saw it a lot differently. Much harder there.

They already build Mercedes in Alabama...I drive by there when I go to the coast..

All Employees: Durable Goods: Motor Vehicles and Parts (CES3133600101) - FRED - St. Louis Fed

I'm readying the "pavel" signal for the night sky:
...
BEIJING — In a sign of rising tensions between the Vatican and China, authorities in recent days have ordained one Catholic bishop without Rome’s consent and detained another after he made a dramatic break with the country’s Communist-run religious hierarchy.
On Friday, government officials organized the consecration of the Rev. Joseph Yue Fusheng as bishop in the northern city of Harbin. Bishop Yue’s nomination had not been approved by the Vatican, and reports said bishops loyal to the Vatican were forced to participate — a common practice meant to give Beijing-appointed bishops legitimacy in the eyes of local believers. The Vatican immediately excommunicated him.
...
same practices in Vietnam. usually there is a secret bishop appointed by Rome.
if you venture into a church in Vietnam you'll notice something missing on the ceiling.
the coat of arms of the Holy See... I noticed it, but few ever do... Communism, what can I say?

Comrade Troyski wrote:

we lose our dollars to them too, every time we buy something.

breton woods II is still alive and well. but for how long...

Bretton Woods... but for how long...?
until it comes to Dunsinane?

Labor union takes aim at Airbus Alabama plant | al.com

Report: Some lose homes over as little as $400 - Yahoo! Finance

Comrade Troyski wrote:

Motor Vehicles and Parts

Looks like a recovery in Klunker repairs;

Comrade Kristina wrote:

Yeah, I think the last time I flew was around then. I truly don't care if I ever fly again. I just don't see it as a safe means of transportation anymore. Too many cuts for the sake of profit for my tastes.

Flying anywhere has been safer than driving from almost the beginning of commercial aviation, and getting safer all the time.

Yep...that's true...exactly..

Mhm, it's perfectly safe from where I'm sitting because I won't be flying again anytime soon.

steinly wrote:

And it can't go on.

Why not? Inquiring minds want to know.

dryfly wrote:

But you know what they say about opinions - everybody has one.

or, nearly everyone has two, if you analgize to asscheeks.

Comrade Kristina wrote:

Mhm, it's perfectly safe from where I'm sitting because I won't be flying again anytime soon.

I don't fly if I don't have to- the convenience factor matters a lot to me, but it is illogical to not do so because you think it unsafe.

I assume pavel is on a private jet to the Vatican as I write this.
his mission should he decide to accept it is to go to Asia
and round up all the Pope selected "secret Bishops"
and form the Ex-Bishops who will be granted
special supra-natural powers by papal bull to fight for truth, justice and the
American way
or whatever...

km4 wrote:

How economists get tripped up

Re: "the formula for the random perturbation, the means and standard deviations for both variables, the OLS fit, the lot. With all this information to hand, economists can be much more accurate when being asked to do something like work out a value for X such that there’s a 95% chance that Y will be greater than zero.

But here’s the thing: when the economists were shown both the graph and the detailed numbers, the number of economists getting the answer spectacularly wrong — the number giving an answer of less than 10 — soared."

==> That's funny, because these boobs are in their positions as a result of random luck, and their odds of reading tea leaves are exactly equal to the odds you and I have today ... they all need to hang by their tiny 's and admit that they have no f'ing clue what their doing, and that in fact, they toss darts at ghosts and wear panty hose hats

Comrade Kristina wrote:

Yeah, I think the last time I flew was around then. I truly don't care if I ever fly again. I just don't see it as a safe means of transportation anymore. Too many cuts for the sake of profit for my tastes.

I'm reading this as I prepare to leave for the airport in a few hours.

Duke of Con Dao wrote:

BEIJING — In a sign of rising tensions between the Vatican and China,

This is a very big deal for the Vatican. No apostolic succession, no legitimate bishop, no ordained ministers (priests and deacons). Sacraments other than marriage and baptism are invalid.

It is a direct attack on the Catholic Church. Priests will go to a labor camp or a prison rather than submit. The Vatican will never agree to it. Martyrs are made out of controversies like this.

Duke of Con Dao wrote:

I assume pavel is on a private jet to the Vatican as I write this.

The Vatican has probably never heard of me.

Comrade Kristina wrote:

Mhm, it's perfectly safe from where I'm sitting because I won't be flying again anytime soon.

I especially hope that my plane doesn't crash into a Panama City bar tonight.

dryfly wrote:

But you know what they say about opinions - everybody has one.

..and his stinks?

Comrade Elmer Fudd wrote:

CNC machine operation

Most of the best programs are in prisons these days, so maybe Obama is doing a better job than we think .. a lot of funding goes into training convicts with better educations than are offered by many community colleges;

Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE), 2010-2011 Agency Annual Statistical Information

Also see: 53% Of College Graduates With A BA Are Unemployed - Elite Daily

According to government projections released last month, only three of the 30 occupations with the largest projected number of job openings by 2020 will require a bachelor’s degree or higher to fill the position – teachers, college professors and accountants.

• I can't find an old link, but the number of recent college grads equaled the number of prisoners released ...

The competition for part-time jobs at walmart is increasing rapidly

Cinco-X wrote:

If most of the poors in the '30s had electricity, what was the point of the Rural Electrification Project, the Hoover Dam and the TVA?

? I wasn't aware they did.

dryfly wrote:

They make some pretty sophisticated aerospace structures in Bama now - near Huntsville/Decatur area. And it is a far cry from minimum wage.

On any given year, the Graduate Materials Science curriculum and UA Huntsville is likely to be number one in the country, public OR private...

pavel.chichikov wrote:

The Vatican has probably never heard of me.

That doesn't keep people like Duke from firing missiles, rockets and ...

From hot dogs to slick ads: Unions spent $4.4 billion on politics in past 6 years | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Your union dues at work....

pavel.chichikov wrote:

No apostolic succession, no legitimate bishop, no ordained ministers (priests and deacons).

apostolic succession, my ass.

it's just a control mechanism for the hierarchy to self-perpetuate with ass-kissers.

Where is Joey Bishop?

Yancey Ward wrote:

JimPortlandOR wrote:
it could be worse: mississippi or south carolina or eastern kenfucky.
Or Oregon.

non-sequitur! OR has a well-trained manufacturing workforce and pays livable wages - without any anti-union tactics.

Agronox wrote:

I'm just wondering what this new product is that has the stock going up 30% every day.

Brawndo! It's got what plants crave!

Cinco-X wrote:

Your union dues at work....

and at Koch industries, your wages that went to senior execs and PACS.

me too but I'm going to be at my house and not work so I should be safe.

One of my former law profs is cited in this:

Housings Last Chance