by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
From the CBO: Many people would like to work but have not searched for a job in the past four weeks, or are working part-time but would prefer full-time work. If those people were counted among the unemployed, the unemployment rate in January 2012 would have been...
by Jane Richey | Feb 17, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The CBO writes that America’s unemployment rate has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making this the longest stretch of high unemployment since the Great Depression. To make matters worse, unemployment will remain above 8 percent until 2014. And the level of...