Today one of the local TV stations held an all-day job fair- tonight they spent 15 minutes or so crowing about how much good they were doing-
while the camera panned across a room almost completely empty of anyone except employers looking for employees.
The emperor has no clothes... :(
Unemployment is high- really???
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Mexdeaf, Apr 1, 2009.
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U.S. employers slash 742,000 jobs in March
Reporting from Washington -- U.S. companies shed 742,000 jobs in March, payroll services company ADP said Wednesday, far more than forecasters had been expecting.
While there have been signs lately that the deterioration in the economy might be slowing, the ADP report was the latest reminder that the nation remains mired in a deep and stubborn recession. The company reported more job losses for March than it had for any other month since it began tracking them in 2001.
- more at www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-economy2-2009apr02,1,1278515.story -
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All of this for 2 part time jobs at KFC. One cook and one cashier. -
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I am curious as to the unemployment rate of college graduates as compared to non-college graduates.
Or the rate of unemployment for highschool drop outs.
Detroit has a drop out rate of almost 75%.
My guess is that highschool drop outs have trouble finding and keeping employment for all of their lives regardless of the state of the economy. -
Around here Boeing is laying off another thousand. Many places are "giving" people two weeks unpaid vacation or putting them on a three off, four on shift, both a 20% cut in pay.
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If you want a lead on the Employment market, talk to a trucker.....
My freight, and everybody that will still discuss it is down. Its slower than I've ever seen it. This time last year I could quit right now and be driving for several thousand companys tommorow.. Sadly that's not the case now.. I will have 1100 miles for the week when I get home. Less than half of what I was running last year, about a third of what I ran the year before. "So what" you may be thinking. Think about it. If I don't haul it, you aren't makeing it. If I don't haul it, you aren't buying it. I depend on your job, you depend on mine.
Everything in your home was at one point on a truck. (Don't try the garden argument, the seed didn't just magically appear).. If a trucker isn't working, you aren't producing and consuming.
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And a gripe:replacing 300 $21hr jobs with 300 $7hr jobs is not a "non-impact on our community" as Louisville's Mayor stated... The OP is correct in that sense, the numbers don't tell the whole story. -
The economy will not recover from this. -
padredurand Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Utica, NY is just over the hill from here and the only real city in a 50 mile radius. As you drive into the city you can see empty factories and boarded up storefronts for block after block. Manufacturing is almost non-existent. The majority of jobs are minimum wage positions with no benefits. Unemployment is between seven and eight percent. The hard part is that this is not new to Utica. It has been this way since the 1970s and nothing has changed. Ironically, the current economic downturn has shown little affect. We were already there.
Forbes magazine ranked the Utica area 191 out of 200 for businesses and careers. Here an article from our local paper. We have two industries left: jails and hospitals.
To the rest of the country: Welcome to our world! -
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LeBuick.... you should be ashamed to mock the difficulties of others with the laughing icon after proposing prayer. How condescending!
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padredurand Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
The point is she had something I didn't want. I wouldn't wish our local economy on anyone. I haven't read the article from Forbes magazine cited by our local paper but there are 9 cities in worse shape than ours. I believe Detroit is one of them.
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Well, I think it is admirable that you're able to take the higher road in viewing the comment.
Personally, I think the body of Christ was meant to bear each others burdens.... and that means prayer... and any helps or support possible: If one is contagious and another concerned that they might catch the bug... fine.... I can understand keeping a certain distance: It still doesn't prevent one from bagging a few groceries or delievering a meal to a household. One of the greatest helps people can be to others is in listening when they have need to pour out their troubles.
Now, if you were the type of person to wallow in misery and carry it everywhere you go... I might understand not commenting or offering any notice.... but to laugh without finding some point of empathy which may include humor, is, like, invalidating the speakers' own concerns and mocking either him or what he says or both.
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There are many more parking places in truck stops as I drive by, so that tells you things are down, too.