Tag Archives: Employment

Your Health Insurance Sucks…

Posted on October 5, 2009 at 7:01 pm by Bob Cesca

…Even if you work for a major health insurance provider. INDIANAPOLIS – WellPoint Inc., the largest U.S. insurer, dismissed a “small number” of workers last week and announced cuts to employee health benefits Friday, in its latest attempt to deal … Continue reading →

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The Pitch for a Second Recovery Bill

Posted on October 5, 2009 at 1:33 pm by Bob Cesca

This chart might be the best pitch for more jobs-oriented spending: I still believe healthcare reform with the public option will create a pile of new jobs. But here’s the decision the president will have to make regarding unemployment. Does … Continue reading →

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Your Weekly YouTube Address

Posted on January 10, 2009 at 10:30 am by Bob Cesca

Krugman posted Romer & Bernstein’s unemployment projection chart here.

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Heckuva!

Posted on January 8, 2009 at 1:12 pm by Bob Cesca

The Bush numbers according to NBC: UNEMPLOYMENT RATE Then: 4.2% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001) Now: 6.7% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2008) DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE Then: 10,587 (close of Friday, Jan. 19, 2001) Now: 9,015 (close of … Continue reading →

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Putting the 'Poor' In Standard And Poor's

Posted on December 26, 2008 at 9:13 am by Bob Cesca

This is tragic: The S&P is down more than 40 per cent so far this year, its worst fall since the Great Depression. Some of the safest stock market investments are index funds that track the S&P 500. In other … Continue reading →

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A Very Strange Time In Our Lives

Posted on December 11, 2008 at 2:39 pm by Bob Cesca

Ambinder reporting: It’s quite unsettling to talk to members of Barack Obama’s transition teams these days, especially those who are helping with the economics portfolio. Without going into details, the sense I get from them is that they are very … Continue reading →

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The Legacy Project

Posted on December 10, 2008 at 7:38 am by Bob Cesca

Sean Hannity is receiving his memos from Karl Rove: HANNITY: We created 10 million new jobs, lower unemployment than in the last four decades’ average. We had a lot of good years. There is an ebb and flow to the … Continue reading →

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My Vote For Quote Of The Day

Posted on December 4, 2008 at 10:31 pm by Bob Cesca

by Lee Stranahan I was thinking about a post saying that if we’re considering mandating a pause in foreclosures, how about considering one on a lot of these f-cking layoffs? Then I found this quote from Barry Diller that sums … Continue reading →

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The First YouTube Fireside Chat

Posted on November 15, 2008 at 9:16 am by Bob Cesca

Transcript after the jump…

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Sorry, no.

Posted on November 2, 2008 at 12:22 pm by Bob Cesca

This 527 ad has been running all morning here in Pennsylvania. The claim is that the Obama tax plan would actually hurt the middle class — if taxes go up for the wealthest five percent, jobs will be lost and … Continue reading →

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