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By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyPolitics has always been a dirty business, but today's political gauntlet feels like something new. And I'm not the only one who's noticed. "The center has disappeared," said policy adviser William Galston. Campaigns now resemble a cross between a reality show, a beauty pageant and retribution for every slight and taunt from the popular kids in high school. Remember how people said they'd vote for George Bush because he's the kind of guy they'd like to have a beer with? That was no fluke. That was the shape of things to come. Physical attractiveness has been important since JFK, so 50 years ...
Amid Lack of Jobs, Suicide Hot Line Calls Surge
By Scott Martelle - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (July 6) -- In one of the darkest tallies of the nation's still-sputtering recession, experts say financial desperation has played a significant role in increased calls to suicide-prevention hot lines -- and likely has led to increased suicide rates. While government statistics on suicides often lag by two or three years, experts say the easier-to-track calls to hot lines have grown significantly. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which operates 24-hour crisis help lines around the country, reported an increase of 18 percent from January to May this year. The rates have ...
Welcome to the Nation's Worst Town for Job Hunters
By Scott Martelle - AOL NewsEL CENTRO, Calif. (June 15) -- Mark Mendez has always preferred working outdoors -- "man's work," he calls it -- to being in an office, and in April 2007 he landed a pretty good job at a gravel and sand pit about 30 miles west of here in California's southeast corner. Then the housing bubble burst. Here, as elsewhere, the economy seized up like an engine running out of oil. Construction contracts soon disappeared, and, in August 2007, Mendez's job went with them. He hasn't worked full time since then, part of a pool of economic misery in a place with a staggering 27.9 percent unemployment ...
Opinion: What Are We So Afraid Of?
By Marcia Meier - AOL News(May 26) -- Fear. Can you feel it? Right there in the pit of your stomach. It's a gnawing, knotty presence that makes your pulse quicken and your mouth go dry. Fear has taken the nation hostage. It's a collective anxiety rooted in 9/11 and fueled by years of war on two fronts. Add to that the collapse of many of the nation's biggest banks and two years of job losses, bankruptcies, home foreclosures and lack of health insurance. Mix with divisive politics driven by radio talk show hosts and special interests, and you have a recipe for a destructive us-vs.-them mentality. Surveys show we have ...
Job Market Looks Brighter but Still Puzzling
By Joseph Schuman - AOL NewsThe U.S. unemployment rate ticked downward in November and businesses cut fewer jobs than in previous months. But is the devastated American jobs market really near the point of a turnaround? The numbers tell an uncertain story. Unemployment fell to 10 percent last month from 10.2 percent in October, and nonfarm payrolls declined by 11,000, just a tenth of the pace of job losses recorded a month earlier, the Labor Department said Friday. While manufacturing and construction jobs continued to disappear at a disturbing rate, accelerated hiring from temp services and in the health-care industry ...
Poor Jobs Reports Put Obama Stimulus Goal in Jeopardy
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn campaigning for his $787 billion economic stimulus plan, President Barack Obama often repeated the claim that the plan would "create or save" 3.5 million jobs over its two-year life. But even if Obama's artful hedge of counting a job "saved" as a job "created" is accepted, recent job losses have made the likelihood that the stimulus plan will deliver the president's promised number of jobs remote at best. In fact, the stimulus plan will have a hard time meeting the much more modest goal of 2.5 million jobs set for the legislation by Democratic economists in testimony before Congress.On ...
Hope for Economic Recovery Fades as Obama Takes Reins
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyAmericans are decidedly pessimistic about the prospects of an economic turnaround anytime soon under President Barack Obama, a recent CNN poll finds. Fully 86 percent of the people surveyed think that an economic recovery will take at least two years to materialize, with 59 percent saying it will take longer. Just thirteen percent of respondents believe that President Obama and Congressional Democrats will be able to right the nation's economic ship in less than a year. The results betray a surprising lack of confidence in Obama, who was elected on a wave of optimism and hope that his very ...
Advisor Pledges Barack Obama Will Hold Unemployment Below Ten Percent
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyClearly playing the expectations game ahead of President-elect Barack Obama taking office, the incoming chairman of the National Economic Council said Sunday that Obama's economic plan will keep the nation's unemployment rate below ten percent. The unemployment rate is currently 7.2 percent, which means that Summers' pledge can be seen as an admission that the incoming Administration expects to see staggering job losses in the sort term. "I think while we're going to see substantial job losses, frankly what's important about the president's program here is that it is going to contain what ...
Great Depression News: Holiday Edition!
By David Knowles - Politics DailyGather round the family around computer while you can still afford to pay for the internet connection, there's holiday news afoot! The four horsemen of our economic apocalypse continue their ride through the ravaged landscape, leaving behind more tales of woe like so many lumps of coal left at the bottom fireplace stockings. Here then, a round-up of the latest shadenfruede stories from across our great land, just in time for Hanukah and Christmas!The New York Times has a holiday shopping piece titled, As Economy Dips, Arrests for Shoplifting Soar:Police departments across the country say that ...
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