We were told by Obama that if only we had more job training, people could get back to work. Peter S. Goodman via The New York Times: It was February 2009, and the city work force center in Downtown Brooklyn was jammed with hundreds of people hungry for paychecks. His caseworker urged [Israel Valle] to […]
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It occurs to me that one needn’t convince another that a stimulus measure was stimulating were it actually stimulating. That, were said stimulus stimulating, the results would largely be self-evident.
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Sara Murray via The Wall Street Journal concerning people on the dole turning down good job offers: Management Recruiters of Sacramento, Calif., says it recently had a tough time filling six engineering positions at an Oregon manufacturer paying $60,000 a year—and suspects long-term jobless benefits were part of the hitch. [. . .] Some candidates […]
President Obama in a speech concerning apparent job growth in May: This report is a sign that our economy is getting stronger. Really? That’s awesome! Tell me more. Luca Di Leo of The Wall Street Journal: The U.S. economy added jobs in May at the fastest pace in a decade, but the gains were inflated […]
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Is it possible that we might start to actually entertain the truth and stop fucking claiming that the economy is on the mend?
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