Jobs/Employment Shortages

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Please use the link (above) to report any shortages that you notice in your area, regardless of the categories listed. This includes foods, fuels, candles, ammunition, tools, parts - anything you went looking for and couldn't find.

Unemployment Sounds Warning About Economy by PETER S. GOODMAN and MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM [January 5, 2008] The unemployment rate surged to 5 percent in December as the economy added a meager 18,000 jobs, the smallest monthly increase in four years, the Labor Department reported on Friday. Economists viewed the report as the most powerful indication to date that the United States could well be falling into a recessionary downturn. Evidence of widening unemployment heightened anticipation that the Federal Reserve would further cut interest rates this month, perhaps by an unusually large half a percentage point, in a bid to prevent the economy from sliding into the muck.

Unemployment Hits 5 Percent on Low Job Creation by Jim Zarroli ~ Morning Edition, January 4, 2008 · Unemployment is now at a two-year high of 5 percent, as the Labor Department's latest jobs report shows that very few jobs were added to the U.S. economy in December. The news, released Friday, will likely raise more fears of a recession.

Working age men still can't find work Back in July 2005 I did one of my more popular postings, "Yes, the job market really is weak". It had currency mostly due to my nifty graph showing the percentage of employed individuals in an American demographic group almost universally in need of work which doesn't wax and wane with educational or retirement opportunities, nor with social trends toward greater workforce participation rates. That group was men, age 25-64.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ~ Employment Situation

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