Job Growth Dismal, Unemployment Hits 9.2 Percent in June

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Means 42% working age population have NO job!
Thanks the multi-billionaires plutocrats, that pay so little taxes that any Marshall plan is impossible for giving work to the 10% jobless + 32% discouraged workers?
QE3 should be used for a Marshall plan, not for enriching the banks!

Jean-Francois Morf, Charrat, Switzerland 7:39AM July 19, 2011

Of course it is still rising. The republicans have been doing everything they can to sabotage the economyfor two years now. It tanked under bush, and they have done their best to prevent anyone from doing anything to improve the situaion. Their cult of stupidity has gotten completely out of hand. Dim-witted extremists determined to ram-rod their dogma and deliver for their corporate backers. They have forsaken all values, such as improving health care, education, and protecting the environment. For them it is all about the wealthy and the powerful or their corporate supporters.

Baking in Texas of TX 10:34PM July 11, 2011

Is that before or after the taxpayers expensing his fun trips etc. And what he spent folishly on stimulus etc. Lets see liberals say he inherited everything bad now-current he did nothing wrong. Did he do anything right yet.

David of NM 8:58PM July 10, 2011

this crisis thats affects America.
with this policy this country will not get away and going to get worse.
this is only a postponement of the collapse that will inevitable come, soon
this country, without clear policy, energy and realignement of its business is doomed to total failure.
many will not like this but these are the facts.
America is losing influence, importance and role and slowly becoming a third world country.
this country no one in the world seriously, and enemies will soon be literally torn apart this country.

Goran Popadich of CA 1:49AM July 10, 2011

I have a friend who is a partner in a large law firm. I had lunch with him recently. I asked him how things were going. He said he was totally overloaded. I suggested maybe he should hire someone to help him, but he was scared to hire anyone.

Annalisse Mayer of NY 11:24PM July 09, 2011

Wake up America. It’s the whole system that has failed. Lets start with Wall St. What shareholder value!!! All corporate America is just BS financial statements accept for companies that really produces products. The economic model that we have been utilizing is obsolete. Our tax sys is made out of lobbyist milking $ from middle class for wall st (401K )and the housing market (interest deduction). Corporate America – what corp.America… it’s make up of handful of board of directors scratching each other back… outsourcing American jobs overseas so they can hit EPS which helps executive pays. It’s not fair pay for middle class like our father and grandfather’s generation anymore. Gee…wake up people.

James of GA 7:01PM July 08, 2011

Obama is more interested in running for office than addressing the real problems:
* Reckless government spending at ALL levels of government
* Massive public debt
* Oppressive regulation
* High and complex tax structure
* Obamacare - a jobs killer
* Little incentive to work - 45 million on food stamps
* High gas prices
* High food prices
Obama's CHANGE has taken away our HOPE!!!
Our "leaders" are clearly out of touch with the lives of the average American. The huge increase in the price of gasoline combined with higher prices for food will mean Americans have less money to spend. That will stop any economic recovery. Obama must start sending clear messages that he will encourage drilling for oil everywhere, reduce the mountains of senseless and wasteful regulations faced by businesses and individuals, reduce the amount, number, and complexity of government taxes and fees, and drastically reduce the size of government or our future is bleak.
We must continue to VOTE THEM OUT!!!

AngryMobVoter of PA 3:38PM July 08, 2011