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U-6 total unemployed spikes higher - the first rise this year - to 16.4% from 15.4% last month!...

  • Friday, July 8, 2011, 8:38 AM ET
    U-6 total unemployed spikes higher - the first rise this year - to 16.4% from 15.4% last month! Long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) rose to 6.3M from 6.2M. (Employment Situation)
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  • I don't know...you think that maybe, just maybe, the economy is actually worse - a lot worse - than all the talking head TV stock pickers and government mouthpieces have been saying it is?
    8 Jul 2011, 08:45 AM Reply Like
  • absolutely amazing that the MSM, day after day paints the rosy picture - at this point who would believe anything they say or print
    8 Jul 2011, 08:51 AM Reply Like
  • FOOLS bought in yesterday. Reality is that it is getting worse.
    8 Jul 2011, 08:51 AM Reply Like
  • Check out the downward revisions...

    "The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for April was revised from +232,000 to +217,000, and the change for May was revised from +54,000 to +25,000."
    8 Jul 2011, 08:53 AM Reply Like
  • All in all a lousy jobs number, can you say jobless "recovery?"
    8 Jul 2011, 09:00 AM Reply Like
  • The jobless part of the recovery has been confirmed, now the recovery itself needs to be confirmed...
    8 Jul 2011, 09:10 AM Reply Like
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