The U.S. economy has added 171,000 jobs in October, and the unemployment rate ticked up one-tenth to 7.9%. The unemployment rate was 7.8%. While the uptick in the rate was expected, the hiring was better than expected. The payroll group ADP had said that 158,000 jobs were created, so the […]
A new ad from the Obama campaign stars Big Bird. After Romney’s comment that he would fire Big Bird, the Obama campaign put out a sarcastic ad, thanking Romney for targeting Big Bird. The ad calls Big Bird the true villain of the Great Recession. However, Sesame Workshop is not happy […]
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney reacted to the July unemployment rate, calling it “a hammer blow to struggling middle-class families.” More specifically, the increase in the unemployment rate. Mitt Romney has said nothing about the growth in jobs, which was higher than expected. Also in the remark, Mitt Romney spoke about […]
The United States Department of Labor announced that the economy added 163,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3%. That was an increase of one-tenth of a percent. The growth was hirer than expected, and much better than the 80,000 jobs in June. The economy has […]
Republican Governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, said President Obama’s stimulus helped the state. Making the remarks on CNN’s State of the Union, he said the stimulus helped the unemployment rate stay down, and helped the state in the short-term. However, the stimulus was still not good in the long run. […]
