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5 job hunters for each opening in AprilSo... What to do?
Tom Abate, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
There were more than five job hunters for every job opening in April, according to a new U.S. Labor Department report that looks at employment in a different light.
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey, released Tuesday, estimates how many U.S. firms are hiring in a given month. These detailed figures usually come about 30 days after the monthly unemployment rate is released.
Tuesday's report said there were 2.5 million job openings in April, the lowest number on record since this survey began in December 2000.
Given that approximately 13.7 million Americans were unemployed in April, that works out to nearly 5.5 job seekers for every job opening that month.
When the recession began in December 2007, employers posted 4.4 million job openings and there were just 1.7 unemployed people competing for each listing, according to Heidi Shierholz with Economic Policy Institute in Washington.
"Unemployed workers are facing an increasingly uphill battle in the search for work," she noted Tuesday.
The U.S. unemployment rate was 8.9 percent in April. It rose to 9.4 percent in May and the economy lost 345,000 jobs, suggesting that the odds facing job-seekers will worsen when the next report on openings is released.
California's unemployment rate is higher than the nation's and stands at 11 percent.
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Warring out of depression
The iresistible, if not totally accurate, comparisons of Obama’s administration with that of the lionized FDR ought to include the decisive masterstroke of the cunning patrician Franklin Roosevelt to leave behind the Great Depression once and for all: war. We always hear about the Works Progress Administration and other quasi-socialist measures taken by Roosevelt’s government, but the real exit strategy from that bout with general deflation was to build the US military-industrial complex, financing it through indebting other war-weakened allies.
Under their own circumstances, the New Dealers had the good fortune to enter the war by phases; first letting others take the brunt of the war — Europe as a battleground, and in particular the USSR, which would surrender around 27 million souls to the charnel house of WWII to debilitate the Wehrmacht — second, becoming the supplier of materiel, thereby indebting the rest of the Allied world while enriching the US prior to actual participation in combat, then finally, entry into the war against a bled-out Germany and Japan to ensure the US would be occupying key terrain in Europe and Asia as a preface to filling the vaccum left in the wake of the imperial collapse of UK and France.
Everybody loves Obama, because he sounds more reassuringly intelligent than George W. Bush even as Obama retains many of the very worst aspects of the Bush regime. Hey, he is the first Black Prez, he picked Carolina as this year’s basketball champs, and he could charm a badger.
But Obama is planning to use war as his deus ex machina, too. His war is to be the Pakistan-Afghan-Iran War, with Iraq stuck to his shoe. (He is not “withdrawing” from Iraq; and has stated that he hasn’t the least intention of doing so, unless one considers a force of 30,000 troops to be a non-occupation.)
Roosevelt used Keynesianism at home and war abroad to save capitalism. But Obama is not inheriting Roosevelt’s circumstances; his war will fail, and his “Keynesian” measures remain so contaminated with neoliberalism’s residues that it will leave the US domestic economy in a shambles that his dangerous (potentially nuclear) military adventures will only exacerbate. [In Full]
The president of Palau, Johnson Toribiong, said his government had “agreed to accommodate the United States of America’s request” to “temporarily resettle” the detainees, members of the Uighur ethnic group, “subject to periodic review.” Palau, the president said, would be “honored and proud” to take them in a “humanitarian gesture.”“humanitarian gesture” is more than you can say for the treatment these INNOCENT Uighurs received from a fearful, cowering behind masked torturers and guns US government. A government that KNOWS 'The chickens WILL come home to roost', largely, if not fully due to it's own actions.
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With barely 20,000 people, Palau, about 500 miles east of the Philippines, is one of the world’s least-populated nations, made up of 8 main islands and 250 smaller ones.
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