In case you missed it, the June jobs report is out, and the numbers are not good (though the Obama administration had a ready-made – and well-worn – excuse ready to go at a moment’s notice; more on that below). As Daniel Horowitz wrote here this morning: The headline number of the establishment survey is that only 80,000 net jobs were created last month, about | Read More »
Anyone who remembers, say, his campaign pronouncement that a Kansas tornado had left “ten thousand dead” and “an entire town destroyed” (the 2007 storm actually killed twelve people) knows that President Barack Obama (D-IL) hasn’t been one to worry about playing fast and loose with a few facts or numbers. However, his dogged refusal to deviate from his standard talking point of “150,000 jobs created | Read More »
For the first time in 23 years, Michigan’s unemployment rate is in the double digits — 10.6% to be exact, a figure one-third higher than the national average. That number is an increase from November’s rate of 9.6%, according to the state Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth (DELEG). Between November and December, “total employment dropped by 68,000 and unemployment rose by 47,000, as | Read More »
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