When referencing unemployment please use the U6 number of 17%

[erodriguez]

http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp


Hopefully, it will shock the public and put some pressure on congress to extend unemployment for all Americans who are actively looking for work.

[billlll]

1. 19 % at site advised by R Reich

Reich was Sec Labor , Clinton

OCTOBER 2010 UNEMPLOYMENT DATA
          (U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS)

Officially unemployed: 14.8 million (9.6%)
Hidden unemployment: 15.7 million

Total: 30.3 million (18.9% of the labor force)

*changed:BLS has revised methodology
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We need a PERMANENT WPA -

Zero unemployment FOREVER
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repair what the GOP neglected since '80

WPA could ----
Fix decayed bridges ( one-third of all),.....
-- do what WPA did in '30's - build housing! - for those now foreclosed on and evicted... and for the homeless..

...... then fix water mains (source of soil bacteria... also can leave firefighters without pressure to save your house... plus end boil water alerts),
...... hire back a third of our cops, hire back food inspectors (end e coli ) and air traffic controllers, fix potholes,

repair school buildings, resume providing free textbooks to EVERY student (and supplies as well), re-seperate recently "consolidated" massive schools, then cut class sizes and rehire teachers for the smaller classes,

.... rehire school crossing guards (a kid killed in my town), replace ended curbside letter drop-boxes in every area,

reopen and vastly upgrade state asylums, and.... (Yes!) rehire clerks at the DMV to end these new long waits for paperwork to get done there (ditto ALL the agencies where clerk jobs were massively slashed by the GOP ax to support tax cuts for the rich).

Clean up the GOP mess and pull us out of this GOP recession at the same time.
Thanks for posting rodrigue A big issue
For sure!

PS these jobs won't be sent off to India.
PS --- Co-ops are another good source of good jobs -- Gov should help set them up. Co ops won't go to india nor end your job due to automation nor downsize you out the door. Superior to corporate jobs in every way.

The site advised by Reich is --
http://www.njfac.org

[erodriguez]

2. Thanks

[billlll]

4. the source, just to be clearer, of the data table

In the above... About the unemployment rate... Was the site at the bottom of my post....
Jobs For All site

http://www.njfac.org

[lildreamer316]

5. Love Reich; thanks for info..

bookmarked.

[Starry Messenger]

3. k&r

[lildreamer316]

6. K&R..yes, it annoys the hell out of me that this is underreported/underestimated.

We are at Depression levels. People need to understand that.
Thanks for posting..