observations from a window seat in the handbasket headed for hell
This morning's news that U.S. unemployment has hit 13.7 million, pushing the rate to 8.9 percent, tells only half the story of this recession.The total number of Americans who are not working full-time but ought to be is actually about 22 million, or 15.8 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [Emphasis mine.]
That's a damned big number.
Daily Twain:
And other words of wisdom...
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. --George Orwell
When you hold up your arm and swear to uphold the Constitution, you don’t say, “Except in wartime.” -- George McGovern
Corexit: More toxic than the oil
IVAW: Iraq Veterans Against the War
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