Unemployment Rate

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Originally Posted by jms62

You forgot

Continuation of failed George Bush policies that pushed the country into a depression and dug a hole so ****ing deep that it is impossible to get out of and also pushed millions of jobs overseas that will never come back.

I'll vote for that one.

Yeah, I agree. Better than the push poll choices.

Oh, wait: we forgot to include the best reason: "Stimulus funds are ending, and the 1/3 of stimulus funds that went to the states directly to prevent layoffs of schoolteachers, firefighters, policemen, other government workers is now gone, thus the majority of the people laid off in the past month were government workers as affected by the stimulus funding end".

How about that one, Joey?

Bureau of Labor Statistics:
THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- JUNE 2011

Nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged in June (+18,000), and the
unemployment rate was little changed at 9.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported today. Employment in most major private-sector industries
changed little over the month. Government employment continued to trend down.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm