Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
The GOP has been all talk and no ideas about jobs. Here they are too busy trying to block any and all attempts to help the middle and lower classes of working people , and they have fought viciouslt to keep safe the supposed free speech rights of multinational corporations.
Now data is coming out. The consequences of GOP rule for so long...The GOP recession results...
Now data is coming out. The consequences of GOP rule for so long...The GOP recession results...
NYTThe Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston divided American households into ...groups based on annual household income...it analyzed labor conditions in each of the groups during the fourth quarter of 2009.
The highest group, with household incomes of $150,000 or more, had an unemployment rate during that quarter of 3.2 percent.
The next highest, with incomes of $100,000 to 149,999, had an unemployment rate of 4 percent..... the group with household incomes of $40,000 to $49,000 had a jobless rate of 9 percent..
The $50,000 to $59,000 group had a 7.8 percent jobless rate, and households earning $60,000 to $75,000 had a jobless rate of 6.4 percent...... those with incomes of $12,500 to $20,000, had an unemployment rate of 19.1 percent.. the lowest group, which had annual household incomes of $12,499 or less. ...was a staggering 30.8 percent. That's more than five points higher than the overall jobless rate at the height of the Depression.