By
Michelle Jamrisko and Alex Kowalski - Sep 21, 2012 8:10 AM PT
Justin Lane/EPA
A job seeker, right, discusses her resume with
a prospective employer during a job fair at a community center in New York.
The jobless rate
rose in August in five of 10 states considered battlegrounds in the U.S. presidential election less than two months before voters
head to the polls.
Unemployment climbed in Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Iowa, North Carolina
and Nevada,
figures from the Labor Department showed today in Washington.
The rate dropped in Colorado and New Mexico, and was unchanged from July in Ohio, Florida
and Virginia. Joblessness in six of the 10 states is below the national average of 8.1 percent.
Changes in the unemployment
rate in the swing states may influence voters as they weigh
President Barack Obama’s argument that his policies are helping heal the
economy and Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s
contention that the president’s policies have left Americans worse off than
they were four years ago.
“In the last six months or so, the trends have never been
negative from Obama’s point of view -- the growth has been slow, but it’s been
steady,” said Bruce Buchanan, a political scientist at the University of
Texas in Austin, who studies voter behavior in presidential
elections. “And that has gradually defanged the economic issue as a promising
one for Romney.”
Employers cut jobs in six of the electoral swing states in
August, including Ohio and Virginia. Florida and Wisconsin showed a pickup in
employment.
U.S. Unemployment
A Labor Department report earlier this month showed the
unemployment rate in the U.S. dropped in August from 8.3 percent in July as
more Americans left the workforce.
Unemployment climbed to 7.5 percent in Wisconsin last month from
7.3 percent in July, rose to 5.7 percent from 5.4 percent in New Hampshire, and
increased in Iowa to 5.5 percent from 5.3 percent. The jobless rate in North
Carolina rose to 9.7 percent in August from 9.6 percent and advanced in Nevada
to 12.1 percent, the highest in the nation, from 12 percent.
The jobless rate in Ohio was 7.2 percent in August for a third
month and stayed at 8.8 percent in Florida. Obama carried a majority of the
vote in Ohio, Florida and six other key swing states in 2008. Ohio and Florida
account for two of the biggest electoral prizes this year.
Among the swing states, Florida showed the biggest gain in employment
at 23,200 last month. Payrolls climbed 7,800 in Wisconsin. Virginia’s 12,400
drop in employment was the largest of any U.S. state in August. In Ohio,
employers reduced headcount by 2,000.
Fiscal Cliff
The lack of clarity on taxes and government
spending associated with the approaching so-called fiscal cliff,
along with a weaker global economy, may be prompting companies to hold the line
on headcounts.
Obama polls 50 percent among likely voters in Colorado,
Wisconsin and Iowa, according to the latest survey. The NBC News/Wall Street
Journal/Marist College poll gave Obama identical 5 percentage-point leads, 50
percent to 45 percent, in Colorado and Wisconsin, and an 8-point advantage in Iowa,
50 percent to 42 percent.
The surveys were conducted Sept. 16-18 of 971 likely voters in
Colorado with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 898
likely voters in Iowa with a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points and 968
likely voters in Wisconsin with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2
percentage points.
An NBC/Journal poll of likely voters released last week put
Obama ahead of Romney 49 percent to 44 percent in Florida and Virginia, and
leading with 50 percent to 43 percent in Ohio. No Republican has won the White
House without carrying Ohio.
Gallup Poll
At the same time, the national daily Gallup tracking poll of
registered voters for the period Sept. 13-19 has the two candidates tied at 47
percent.
Among all states, 26 registered a gain in joblessness in August,
while 12 posted decreases, today’s data showed. Payrolls climbed in 28 states
last month and fell in 21.
State and local employment data are derived independently from
the national statistics, which are typically released on the first Friday of
every month. The state figures are subject to larger sampling errors because
they come from smaller surveys, making the national figures more reliable,
according to the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Moody’s Analytics Inc., which predicts presidential election
results based solely on state-by-state economic data and past voting behavior,
predicted Obama winning the election with 303 electoral votes as of Aug. 22,
unchanged from the previous month’s forecast.
Electoral College
A candidate needs 270 Electoral College votes for the
presidency. The 10 swing states have a combined total of 115 electoral votes.
The latest Moody’s analysis was released in advance of the
August payrolls data. Employers nationwide added 96,000 jobs last month, less
than the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg, after a revised
141,000 gain in July that was smaller than initially estimated, Labor
Department data showed on Sept. 7.
Factory employment fell by
the most in two years, temporary-help companies cut positions for the first
time in five months and the share of the working-age population in the labor force
slumped to the lowest since 1981.
Including the August gain, the U.S. has recovered 4.1 million of
the 8.8 million jobs lost as a result of the 18-month recession that ended in
June 2009.
43 Months
At the same time, the jobless rate has exceeded 8 percent for 43
consecutive months, the longest stretch in the post-World War II era.
The lack of progress in the labor market persuaded the Federal Reserve
to announce further accommodation last week. The Fed said it will expand its
holdings of long-term securities with open-ended purchases of $40 billion of
mortgage debt a month in a third round of quantitative easing as it seeks to
boost growth and reduce unemployment.
“If the outlook for
the labor market does not improve substantially, the committee will continue
its purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities, undertake additional asset
purchases and employ its other policy tools as appropriate,” the Federal Open Market Committee said Sept. 13 in a statement at
the end of a two-day meeting in Washington
OBAMA HAS ALWAYS BEEN AWOL ON JOBS… UNLESS THEY’RE FOR
ILLEGALS!
TO BUILD HIS LA RAZA ‘THE RACE’ PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS,
OBAMA HAS SABOTAGED E-VERIFY, SUED AZ, A STATE UNDER MEX SIEGE, TO BLOCK
E-VERIFY, HAS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS AS HIS SEC. of (illegal) LABOR!*
THE
ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!
"We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming
the jobs taken by illegal workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of
Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama
is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president
should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs
they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws."
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President Obama is AWOL on the biggest
issue of all JOBS!
Published
August 23, 2012
Thursday’s jobless numbers and Wednesday’s CBO report are beyond ominous and present a direct
challenge to the rationale for Barack Obama’s presidency.
Before
President Obama took office, he vilified
President Bush for adding $4 trillion to our nation’s debt as “unpatriotic.” If Bush’s spending
over the course of two terms was “unpatriotic,” Obama adding nearly $5.3
trillion to the national debt in half this time is not only “unpatriotic,” it’s
also hypocritical. It displays an utter disregard for financial health of
this country.
Obama pledged
to cut the deficit in half by 2012, but instead has increased spending so rapidly
that our nation has surpassed the $16 trillion threshold. He and his ObamaClones
in the Senate continue to call for even more liberal deficit
spending.
Senate
Democrats have enabled Obama by refusing to produce a budget for over three
years. This is a complete dereliction of duty on the part of Majority Leader
Harry Reid. The Senate is mandated to produce a budget but has failed to
do so for almost the entire time Obama has been in office.
Democratic
Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia expressed rare honesty in saying he was at
a loss to explain why his fellow Democrats have gone along with this. The
former governor even said if he had done this while governor of his state, he
would’ve been impeached.
It’s
an absolute disgrace that the last time the Senate passed a budget was on April 29,
2009. Since this resolution—which aimed to cut the deficit by two-thirds by
2014—the deficit has increased by $4.8 trillion.
Obama and
his enablers in the Senate refuse to do their jobs and idly stand by as our
nation teeters on the fiscal cliff. The American people not only deserve
to know how the politicians in Washington are spending their tax dollars, they
also deserve representatives who do the job they were elected to do.
Do we
need more evidence that Obama doesn’t take fiscal responsibility
seriously? His last budget proposal was shot down by both Democrats and
Republicans in both houses of Congress: 414-0 in the House of Representatives
and 99-0 in the Senate. When was the last time—if ever—you had a national,
unanimous repudiation of this magnitude?
Both
Obama and Reid must be held accountable for failing to do their jobs. The
same goes for other enablers in the Senate such as Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Claire
McCaskill (D-Mo.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) – all of
whom are up for re-election this year.
Additionally,
former Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is running for
the Senate in Virginia, and he has continually supported all of Obama’s
policies which have driven our country deeper in debt. Mr. Kaine needs to
answer for this if he wants the voters to support him. He is not exempt.
Obama
declared that Stimulus One (a trillion dollars of taxpayer money) would get the
economy back on track. It was a miserable failure. When that didn’t
work, he threw more tax dollars at more failed projects in Stimulus Two.
Back in
February 2009, Obama said that as president he would be held accountable.
He said that if the economy didn’t recover in three years, his
presidency would be a “one-term proposition.”
Come
November, the American people will remember Obama’s proclamation. They
will also remember that this administration has engaged in the most reckless
deficit spending in history which has grown the federal debt over $16
trillion.
At some
point, the public’s patience will wear out unless Obama changes his spending
ways and both he and his party begin to take this problem seriously.
Don’t bet on this. You’ll be as successful as Obama and the Democrats
have been lately.
Brent
Bozell is chairman and CEO of ForAmerica.org, the largest online
conservative army in America with 2.5 million supporters.
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LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS, SEC.
OF DEPT OF LABOR.
Michelle Malkin
LA RAZA HILDA SOLIS - The U.S.
Department of Illegal Alien Labor
President Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda
Solis is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that
this longtime open--borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical
definition of "American." At a Latino voter registration project
conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous
applause, "We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not."
That's right. The woman in charge of
enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot about our immigration laws
---- or about the fundamental distinction between those who followed the rules
in pursuit of the American dream and those who didn't.
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FROM JUDICIAL WATCH .org
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Labor Secretary Pledges Help For
Illegal Workers
Last Updated: Tue,
06/22/2010 - 11:00am
Two
months after the Department of Labor launched a special program to assist and
protect illegal immigrants in the U.S. the Obama cabinet official who heads the
agency is personally encouraging undocumented workers to report employers that
don’t pay them fairly.
In
a Spanish-language public service announcement, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
assures that “every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly, whether
documented or not.” Illegal aliens who are not getting fair wages are
encouraged to call a new hotline set up by the agency on a new “Podemos Ayudar” (We
Can Help) web page designed to administer worker protection laws and ensure
that employees are properly paid “regardless of immigration status.”
In
the short video, also posted in English, Solis tells illegal immigrants that
it’s a “serious problem” when workers in this country are not paid fairly and
that all workers have the right to receive their salary regardless of
immigration status. She encourages those who are not to call the new hotline
and assures it’s free and confidential. “Podemos ayudar,” (we can help), Solis
guarantees at the end of the brief segment.
The
Labor Secretary’s new message is part of a campaign launched a few months ago
to help illegal immigrant workers in the U.S., who she refers to as “vulnerable” and
“underpaid.” At least 1,000 new
field investigators have been deployed to reach out to Latino laborers in areas
with large numbers of illegal alien employees and the agency will focus on
enforcing labor and wage laws in industries that typically hire lots of illegal
aliens without reporting anyone to federal immigration authorities.
For
a government agency to protect law breakers in this fashion may seem
unbelievable but not if you consider the source. A Former California
congresswoman, Solis has close ties to the influential La Raza movement that
advocates open borders and rights for illegal immigrants. She made the
protection of undocumented workers a major priority upon being named Labor
Secretary, assuring illegal aliens that “if you work in this country, you are
protected by our laws.”
"While the declining job market in
the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of
illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as
drug-smuggling "mules."
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OBAMA’S HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA –
HOW DOES HE EXPLAIN THAT TO BLACK AMERICA? HE DOESN’T BOTHER!
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Newsmax
Obama's 'Hispanicazation' of America
Monday, January 10, 2011 08:28 AM
By: James Walsh
Casting a shadow on economic recovery
efforts in the United States is the cost of illegal immigration that consumes
U.S. taxpayer dollars for education, healthcare, social welfare benefits, and
criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or more politically correct,
"undocumented immigrants") with ties to Mexican drug cartels are
contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands along the southern border.
While the declining job market in the
United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of
illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as
drug-smuggling "mules."
Increasingly vicious foot soldiers of
the Mexican drug cartels are taking control of U.S. lands along the border,
especially since U.S. Border Patrol units have been reassigned, some to offices
60 to 80 miles inland.
The U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) early last year posted signs warning citizens
to avoid Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, Ariz., because of
criminal activity in the area, an area that includes protected natural areas
precious to the nation.
In reaction to public outrage over the
signs, the BLM removed the offensive wording in October 2010, replacing it with
the following: Visitor Information Update--Active Federal Law Enforcement
Patrol Area.
As the liberal news media, far-left
Democrats, and labor unions push for the "Hispanicazation" of U.S.
culture, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says
the U.S. border has never been more secure.
Perhaps she is basing this on the
reduced number of apprehensions, which result, of course, from reassigning
Border Patrol agents inland.
In a recent New York Times article,
Nicholas Kristof criticized U.S. citizens for not speaking a foreign language
and suggested that "Every child in the United States should learn
Spanish." He concluded that as the United States increasingly integrates
economically with Latin America, Spanish will be crucial for the United States.
For decades, the liberal left has
argued that Latin America is essential for U.S. business and trade. Kristof
states that Latin America "is finally getting its act together" but
fails to mention the Obama administration's $2 billion loan of U.S. taxpayer
money in 2009 to Brazil's Petrobras oil company for deep off-shore oil
drilling. Obama confidant George Soros, through the Soros Fund Management LLC,
until recently owned millions of dollars of Petrobras stock.
Kristof suggests that one day
Spanish-speaking Americans will be part of daily life in the United States and
that workmen such as mechanics will be able to communicate easily with
Spanish-speaking customers.
He fails to explain why these customers
will not be speaking English. After all, the ability to speak, read, and write
English remains a requirement for U.S. citizenship.
President Barack Obama gives lip
service to increasing border control resources with limited funding and
personnel. Many officials, including the governors of Texas and Arizona, are
skeptical regarding the Obama administration's resolve. They resent that the
United States is being blamed for the killing fields on both sides of the Mexico-U.S.
Border.
For instance, U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton in March 2009, during her first official visit to Mexico,
placed the blame for the Mexican drug cartels' vicious murders on the United
States.
In Mexico City, she announced that the U.S.
appetite for illegal drugs and the easy acquisition of guns from the United
States by Mexicans are the root causes of the Mexican crime wave. "Blame
America" has become the global agenda of the Democratic Party.
The Obama administration's plan to resolve
the immigration chaos is to offer amnesty to all comers. President Obama
re-affirms his support of a "pathway to citizenship" (amnesty) for
illegal aliens in 2011.
The administration, however, has
announced no plans to control the influx of future waves of illegal aliens or
their skyrocketing costs to the nation. The administration, which condones U.S.
sanctuary cities and states, has no plans to file charges against them for
violations of federal immigration law. Nor does the administration seem concerned
about the environmental impact that illegal aliens have on the ecology of the
United States.
Many national forests, parks,
monuments, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges -- once the pride of the
nation -- are serving today as marijuana fields for illegal alien gangs.
Former Democratic Speaker of the House
Nancy Pelosi reportedly said to a gathering of illegal aliens in California in
2009 that U.S. immigration laws were "un-American," suggesting that
they need not be obeyed. Concerned citizens can only trust that the new speaker
of the House, John Boehner, as part of congressional oversight of federal
agencies, will demand enforcement of existing immigration laws.
When will President Obama recognize
that illegal immigration is slowing economic recovery? Can he resolve the chaos
while still appeasing his Hispanic base?
To maintain his populist aura, the
president is in the habit of saying one thing to one audience and the opposite
to another.
One Obama apologist explained,
"Campaign rhetoric is one thing," suggesting that governing is
another. The deliberate Hispanicazation of the United States to secure a block
of votes is quite another.
THE
ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!
"We
could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal
workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the
Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on the wrong side of the
American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help
citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than
fail to enforce immigration laws."
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