En Hispanistán falta cobrar la factura.

Y va a ser muy dura de asumir.

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Esa es la principal diferencia entre los USA y Asspain.

- Los USA tienen "tejido industrial"

- Asspain tiene "Tejodes, industrial"

Y aunque suene parecido, la diferencia es notable.

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Y con todo sus iconos representativos de su poderío industrial han caido...

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Two Dozen States’ Unemployment Funds in the Red, Nine More Within Six Months - ProPublica

Two Dozen States’ Unemployment Funds in the Red, Nine More Within Six Months
by Olga Pierce, ProPublica - January 20, 2010 12:42 am EST

The record 20 million Americans who collected unemployment insurance benefits last year landed on a safety net that was already deeply frayed.

New Interactive: ProPublica Predicts if Your State's Unemployment Insurance Fund Is About to Hit the Skids

A historical compromise has left responsibility for unemployment benefits largely in the hands of states, and they have fulfilled this charge with varying degrees of effectiveness.

In a series last summer with public radio’s Marketplace, we reported that only a handful of states had built up reserves sufficient to weather the Great Recession [1] – and forecast a spate of borrowing by states where reserves ran out.

Half a year later, the direst predictions seem to be coming true: So far 25 states have borrowed more than $25 billion to keep benefits flowing after their trust funds ran dry. In many other states the situation is deteriorating fast.

Our new unemployment insurance tracker [2] monitors states’ trust funds using the most up-to-date data available on the Web – and projects the health of funds six months into the future. To help readers understand the roots of each state’s fiscal fiasco or success it also pulls together other helpful information and historical data that can be downloaded. According to our projections, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Maryland, Massachussetts, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Vermont will find themselves in the red within six months.

And while states’ poor fiscal planning is a serious topic on its own, our tracker [2] also follows the increasing human toll: so far businesses in 36 states face tax increases this year, ranging from a few dollars per worker to more than a thousand. Six states have moved to cut, freeze or otherwise restrict benefits, a number that is likely to increase. (See our breakdown of states’ projected increase in taxes [3]—and cuts in benefits.)

Some states have focused the pain, like Virginia, where unemployed seniors who also receive Social Security face steep benefit cuts. Other states, like Pennsylvania, have taken a broader approach: all unemployment beneficiaries will receive 2.4 percent smaller checks starting this month.

Unemployment rose in 43 states last month | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger

Unemployment rose in 43 states last month

The Associated Press • January 22, 2010


WASHINGTON — Unemployment rates rose in 43 states last month, including Mississippi, the government said Friday, painting a bleak picture of the job market and illustrating nationwide data released two weeks ago.

The rise in joblessness was a sharp change from November, when 36 states said their unemployment rates fell. Four states — South Carolina, Delaware, Florida and North Carolina — reported record-high jobless rates in December.

New Jersey’s rate, meanwhile, rose to a 33-year high of 10.1 percent while New York’s reached a 26-year high of 9 percent.

Mississippi's rate rose to 10.6 percent, as some 1.1 million workers were jobless in December, an increase of nearly 3 percent from the previous year.

Analysts said the report showed the economy is recovering at too weak a pace to generate consistent job creation.

“A lot of states that had started to add jobs (in November) gave up those gains in December,” said Sophia Koropeckyj, managing director at Moody’s Economy.com.

Texas and Georgia lost more jobs in December than they had gained the previous month, she noted, while Arizona and South Carolina lost nearly as many as they had gained.

That is consistent with nationwide trends. Employers shed a net total of 85,000 jobs in December, the government said earlier this month, after notching a small gain of 4,000 jobs in November.

In another nationwide trend, long-suffering states like California and Michigan saw their jobless rates stabilize even as they continued to bleed jobs. That’s because thousands of frustrated workers gave up hunting for work and dropped out of the labor force, which means they aren’t included in the unemployment rate.

California lost 38,800 jobs, the most of any state. But its unemployment rate was unchanged at 12.4 percent, the fifth-highest in the nation. That’s because 107,000 people, or 0.6 percent of the state’s work force, gave up and stopped job-hunting.

Michigan shed 15,700 jobs, but 31,000 people left the labor force. That caused the state’s jobless rate to fall slightly, to 14.6 percent from 14.7 percent. Michigan has the nation’s highest unemployment rate.
Nationally, more than 600,000 people left the labor force in December, according to government data. The large exodus from the labor force indicates that “unemployment is a lot worse than the numbers suggest,” Koropeckyj said.

Still, Michigan has actually gained about 10,000 jobs over the past three months, as automakers and other manufacturers have boosted production to restock inventories depleted over the summer and early fall.

“That’s a positive thing for a state that has been doing so terribly for so long,” said Dave Iaia, an economist at IHS Global Insight.

Texas lost the second-most jobs: 23,900. That sent its jobless rate to 8.3 percent in December from 8 percent. The next-largest job losses were in Ohio, Illinois and Michigan.

The economy grew at a 2.2 percent annual rate in last year’s third quarter, after declining for four straight quarters during the recession. Many economists estimate that growth accelerated to more than 4 percent in the October-December quarter. But that’s still sluggish by the standards of many previous recoveries.

And growth could slow in the first half of this year as temporary factors, such as government stimulus spending and inventory restocking, fade.

Many states saw sharp drops in restaurant, hotel and other leisure employment, a sign that consumers are still holding back on their spending. Nationwide, the United States lost 25,000 leisure and hospitality jobs in December.

Texas shed 6,500 restaurant and hotel positions. Florida lost 5,600, South Carolina 5,200 and North Carolina lost 2,600 — more than any other sector in that state.

38,800 California jobs erased - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

38,800 California jobs erased
By Dale Kasler
dkasler@sacbee.com



Layoffs returned in earnest to California last month, and a depressingly lonely holiday season for retailers and restaurants was a key reason why. California lost 38,800 jobs in December, a month that saw precious little hiring by shopkeepers and layoffs by restaurants.

The statewide unemployment rate held steady at 12.4 percent, the Employment Development Department reported Friday. Analysts said the rate would have risen except thousands of Californians dropped out of the job market, which means they weren't counted among the unemployed.

The new numbers suggest the economic recovery will be bumpy. After payrolls grew by 31,000 in October, breaking an18-month losing streak, California has endured two straight negative months, with the job losses totaling 56,000.

December by itself was the worst month since June,when 66,000 jobs disappeared.

"Certainly this is a step back," said Michael Bernick, a former EDD director who analyzes the labor market for the Milken Institute. "It certainly suggests that the turnaround isn't gaining momentum."

Sacramento's unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a point, to 12.3 percent, even though 3,700 payroll jobs disappeared. Economists generally believe the payroll numbers are more reliable than the unemployment rate, which is calculated with a smaller sampling.

In Sacramento and across the state, the job numbers were especially weak in the retail and restaurant sectors. Despite the holidays, restaurants and bars eliminated 1,100 jobs in Sacramento last month. Normally in December, they hire 400 workers, said EDD labor market consultant Justin Wehner.

Sacramento's retailers hired just 600 workers in December, less than one-third the usual number, he said.

Both sectors provided further evidence of Sacramentans' reluctance to spend. Beyond the woeful unemployment rate, the region has been further clobbered by three-day-a-month "Furlough Fridays" for state workers, erasing millions of dollars from the economy.

"Business has been very slow, obviously," said Callista Wengler, marketing director for Paragary Restaurant Group. "We've had to do a lot of cutbacks."

Although the 12-restaurant chain has eliminated relatively few jobs, it has made significant reductions in workers' hours, she said. The flagship Paragary Bar & Oven in midtown Sacramento stopped serving lunch last summer. The downtown restaurants, including Esquire Grill, Spataro and Cosmo Cafe, stay closed on Sundays unless there's a show at the Community Center Theater.

Several restaurants have closed around town in recent months, including four T.G.I. Friday's outlets owned by bankrupt real estate developer Abe Alizadeh.

December brought little relief for the region's restaurant owners.

"It wasn't horrible, (but) we didn't see the huge December you normally get," said Matt Haines, co-owner of Riverside Clubhouse and six other area restaurants.

Haines' restaurants didn't cut any jobs last month but didn't add any, either.

The California job numbers are comparable to the national figures. Some 85,000 jobs disappeared across the country last month. On Thursday the government reported an increase in initial claims for unemployment benefits, and President Barack Obama held a townhall meeting Friday in Ohio to urge Congress to pass a new jobs-creation bill.

Many economists believe California, because of its overexposure in the housing market, will come out of the recession several months after the rest of the country. The latest job figures support the notion that while the worst is probably over, the state's job market is going to bump along the bottom for a while – with some months more encouraging than others.

The economy is taking "two steps forward, one step back," said David Smith, a labor economist at Pepperdine University. "It's going to be a slow, painful recovery when it occurs, and it may be occurring now."

Bernick said he's worried that the health care sector, which has remained strong throughout the downturn, could finally be slowing down. Although it added another 5,000 jobs last month across the state, Bernick is hearing talk that recent nursing-school graduates are struggling to get hired. "Even RNs aren't recession-proof now," Bernick said.

In Sacramento, the economy continues to emit mixed signals.

The housing market shows signs of bottoming out. On Thursday, MDA DataQuick reported a 0.6 percent increase in median sales prices for the region in 2009, a major turnaround from the combined 57 percent drop in 2007 and 2008. But with state government facing a $20 billion deficit, Sacramentans are bracing for possible layoffs by the area's single largest employer.

And the new year was barely two weeks old when Sacramento was hit with another setback to its retail sector. The Sam's Club in Natomas will close in March, eliminating 150 jobs. It is one of 10 stores being closed across the country by parent Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Jobless Rate: The Truth Bubble? | Economy In Crisis

The Coming Economic Depression: A Million Americans Denied Unemployment Extensions

Jobless Rate: The Truth Bubble?
by Joel S. Hirschhorn on February 17, 2010 - 2:12pm

Can you trust national averages? As bad as the jobless data you hear are, you have not been told the whole truth. If you think the terrible impact of America’s Great Recession is shown by an official unemployment rate of about 10 percent, think again.

Economic inequality and the myth of Reagan trickle down logic are shown by new data from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. The report noted: “What has been missing from the public debate over the labor market crisis is an honest and detailed analysis of which American workers have been most adversely affected by the deep deterioration in labor markets.” The researchers found a correlation between household income and unemployment rate in the last quarter of 2009: Look carefully at these numbers and see how unemployment rises as income drops:

$150,000 or more, 3.2 percent

$100,000 to 149,999, 8 percent

$75,000 to $99,999, 5 percent

$60,000 to $75,000, 6.4 percent

$50,000 to $59,000, 7.8 percent

$40,000 to $49,000, 9 percent

$30,000 to $39,999, 12.2 percent

$20,000 to $29,999, 19.7 percent

$12,500 to $20,000, 19.1 percent

$12,499 or less, 30.8 percent

Ten times worse unemployment in the lowest class than in the highest class! Truly amazing and disheartening, don’t you think? And you can also infer that in some hard hit geographical areas the poorest people and people of color are being even more adversely impacted. And don’t think for a minute that things have really improved in 2010.

The report summed up the situation: “A true labor market depression faced those in the bottom…of the income distribution; a deep labor market recession prevailed among those in the middle of the distribution, and close to a full employment environment prevailed at the top.” People at the top remain winners no matter how bad the whole economy. Why? The wealthy Upper Class controls so much of the political system and benefits from countless government policies. They may lose something in an economic meltdown but not enough to suffer significantly.

Conversely, those at the bottom of the economic system with no political power are experiencing something as bad as the Great Depression, with no end in sight.

What pundits don’t emphasize is that government policies that do not target lower income groups are a failure and disgrace. Worse than destroying the middle class, we are creating a Lower Class like that found in third world countries. Indeed, compared to places like China and European nations, America’s poor are suffering about as badly as anyone on the planet, except for a few dismal places like Haiti. Needing food handouts, losing homes, missing health insurance, and lacking jobs mock the American Dream.

Wait; there is even more bad news. When underemployment is factored in — part time workers that want to work full time, and those who have stopped looking but want a job — the picture gets even worse. In the lowest group, the underemployment rate was 20.6 percent, compared with just 1.6 percent in the highest group. So the total in the lowest class is 51.4 percent (3.7 million people) compared to 4.8 percent in the wealthy class (530,000 people). Also consider that last November nearly 20 percent of all men between 25 and 54 did not have jobs, the highest figure since the labor bureau began counting in 1948.

Now you know why the constantly noted official jobless rate for the nation of 10 percent and 17 percent when underemployment is counted are a joke, or is it a purposeful deception, like a truth bubble?

How can jobs be created for the lower economic classes? You hear very, very few new ideas from politicians. It comes down to federal spending that better targets job creation to the lower income groups, and waiting for more general consumer spending, especially by the more affluent, to create more low level jobs, mostly in service areas. But we need specifics and better legislation.

Consider this green energy fiasco. A huge amount of federal stimulus money was provided for building wind farms. It is creating jobs in China to build wind turbines, not in America. In fact, 80 percent of such federal funding is going overseas. All because Congress and the White House did not ensure a made-in-America requirement. Was a backroom deal made to keep China happy so that they would keep loaning us money?

When the poorest people suffer so disproportionately as compared to the wealthiest, perhaps only violent revolution will fix America’s dys********al, broken and delusional democracy. Will President Obama cite the above frightening data in any public forum to make the case for stronger federal efforts? What do you think?

The high numbers for the lower income people mean that no amount of government action, in even five years or more, will solve the jobless problem, because no amount of economic growth can possibly create enough new jobs. The US would have to produce 10 million new jobs just to get back to the unemployment levels of 2007 - impossible for many years. So, politicians will keep making things look better by citing the national average.

The Coming Economic Depression
Lots of Layoffs as Economy Sinks

2,000 Connecticut Teachers Face Layoffs Before Next School Year


Sallie Mae To Cut 2500 Jobs


Buffalo: City School Budget would Lay off 700
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Fletcher Layoffs Hit 120 People
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Hundreds of Cleveland teachers, Principals to Lose Jobs


Lockheed Martin: 472 Layoffs


Detroit Public Schools sends layoff notices to 2000 Teachers


Boeing issues layoff notices to 130 in state, 300 companywide


More than 1,000 staff members were laid off on Monday at the bankrupt St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan.

Pues no será modélico pero si copiarlo nos llevara a estar como ellos, pues ahora mismo.

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