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Posts tagged "unemployment"

Fed workers go without a pay raise for 3 years--boo hoo!

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) warns that “recent attacks on federal pay and benefits, coupled with the permeating rhetoric casting the government as bloated and underperforming, could lead to a crisis among federal employees and have a crushing impact on morale,.” This is one of the most self-pitying whines I’ve ever seen, coming from federal workers who still don’t... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 24, 2012 at 12:52 pm
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Illinois unemployment rate increased most in the nation in 2011

According to the Illinois Policy Institute: As Gov. Pat Quinn prepares for the State of the State address on Feb. 1, he will find it difficult to defend the state’s economic policies that have resulted in more unemployed Illinoisans in 2011. Almost a year after Illinois’ record income tax increase, the state’s unemployment woes contrast... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 26, 2012 at 4:29 pm
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Illinois also in hock to cover unemployment benefits

To ensure that state continue to pay unemployment benefits, they can borrow billions from the federal government. Thanks to our state leaders’ (Democrats) gross financial mismanagement, it’s not only the pension funds of retired teachers and state workers that are in this fix. Illinois had to borrow  some $2.5 billion to help support Illinois’ unemployed... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 16, 2011 at 12:38 pm
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Is Quinn rigging the job numbers?

Possibly so, according to this report from Illinois Statehouse News... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 22, 2010 at 1:42 pm
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Rally in Illinois for jobs on Sept. 8

As the number one issue for the American people is jobs and the economy, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Obama oil drilling moratorium alone will cause a loss of 23,000 jobs. That is why the American Conservative Union is partnering with the American Petroleum Institute in order to protect domestic job growth.  With... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 2, 2010 at 2:53 pm
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How to put more people out of work

Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias and his Republican opponent, Mark Kirk, both agree with the Obama administration’s six-month ban on new permits for deep-sea oil drilling, the associated press reports. Right, people on the Gulf Coast aren’t suffering enough. Let’s make sure that no one works there... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
June 15, 2010 at 4:01 pm
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Unstimulated Chicago

(Crain’s) — Unemployment for metropolitan Chicago held steady in March at 10.9%, but it reflected an increase from the same month a year ago.  http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=37930... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 22, 2010 at 3:55 pm
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Clueless jobs bill

Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr.,: We’ve got to do something, anything What better illustrates how clueless and desperate Democrats are than the “jobs” bill that passed the House on a mostly party-line vote? Do the bill’s backers actually believe that a temporary hold on the payroll tax and a $1,000 tax credit will actually create jobs... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 5, 2010 at 3:59 pm
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Illinois unemployment rises

Hey, what happened to all those jobs that the stimulus, TARP and other harebrained plans were supposed to generate. Said the AP: WASHINGTON (AP) — Unemployment rates rose in 43 states last month, the government said Friday, painting a bleak picture of the job market that illustrated nationwide data released two weeks ago. In Illinois... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 22, 2010 at 2:50 pm
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