Wouldn’t you prefer to know whether a prospective employee had a criminal background? President Obama doesn’t think you should have the right to know, at least not if you’re a government hiring manager. President Obama announced he was issuing an […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Unemployment

If you believe the unemployment rate is actually approaching the eight percent claimed in recent Bureau of Labor Statistics reports then you’ve bought into one of the greatest works of American fiction. The government’s numbers game is akin to saying […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you ignore bad news, good news look a lot better; such is the story with the news media’s glowing reports of the unemployment rate dropping from 9.0 to 8.6 percent. Beneath the new unemployment numbers you’ll find a story […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Folks at the White House are probably tidying up their resumes these days as even their bosses have accepted a decidedly pessimistic view of jobs through the presidential election. Thursday the White House budget office forecast that unemployment would remain […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…