The Union Assault on Freedom of Association

21 November 2012

The State of Michigan – the Ground Zero of America’s union-strangled zombie legacy car manufacturing industry and the modern-day Mordor of union orcs – turned against its oppressors this month. ...

Big Data: We’re Looking for a Few Good Nerds (And When We Say “Few,” We Mean 4.4 Million of Them)

09 November 2012

10 or 15 years ago, it was all about bandwidth. big data hiring‘Rich, golden fields of bandwidth, waving in the wind,’ went one well-known technology company. Back then, the major difficulty for t...

Florida Workers to Lose Substantial Unemployment Benefits

30 October 2012

The good news is the unemployment rate has finallyunemployment benefits florida fallen in Florida. The bad news is that while it hasn’t fallen all that much, even that modest improvement in unemploy...

Reality-Checking the Jobs Report

18 October 2012

The October jobs report was a doozy: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy actually added some 114,000 nonfarm payroll jobs. Which actually isn’t much. But somehow, it was enough ...

Obesity Discrimination Becoming a Fact of Life

26 September 2012

Someone once wrote a joke news story headlined “Unemployment Rating Among Young, Hot Women Holding at Zero Percent.”
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Hurricane Isaac Hits the Unemployment Rate

19 September 2012

When Hurricane Isaac grazed the Gulf Coast states and hit Louisiana, unemployment also took a hit; unemployment numbers were at the highest point in two months. Nine states were affected by Isaac, and...