The Competent Conservative

Finally, someone has the courage to come out and boldly challenge the effectiveness of the stimulus while offering some sound advise to the incompetent administration, who would most likely throw more of yours and my money into the economy, -Fix the stimulus. By Mitt Romney-NRO With every month’s release of bad unemployment numbers, Americans must [...]

How is it possible for the unemployment rate to essentially remain unchanged when 247,000 jobs have been lost? Because the number of people who gave up and stopped looking for work rose dramatically. The announcement today that the unemployment rate declined slightly to 9.4 percent in July while only 247,000 additional jobs were lost has been [...]

By: Barbara Hollingsworth Local Opinion Editor 07/22/09 5:10 PM EDT Every month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes six “measures of labor underutilization” (i.e. unemployment). The official unemployment rate used by politicians and the media, referred to as U3, measures the percent of the civilian labor force that is out of work. (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/print.pl/lau/stalt.htm) [...]