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The September jobless rate is out and the news is good for the president. The nation’s unemployment rate dropped to the lowest it has been since early in 2009 in September, providing a potential upbeat talking point for President Barack Obama in the days left before the presidential election. The Labor Department reported Friday that the unemployment rate fell to …

Gallup reports: U.S. unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, is 8.1% for the month of August, down slightly from 8.3% measured in mid-August and 8.2% for the month of July. Gallup’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for August is also 8.1%, a slight uptick from 8.0% at the end of July. The number of jobs increased for the 30th …

Fox News claims to have no idea who’s behind these Las Vegas billboards, but we can guess.

One day after the Smoking Gun outed real estate agent and Christian radio preacher Michael Leisner as the anti-gay activist who had set fire to the front lawn of General Mills, Greater Midwest Properties began emailing the below response to complaints left on their contact page. Thank you for your comment. Greater Midwest Properties does not condone or support the …

This weekend GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham told a home state audience in South Carolina that government contractors should make layoffs before the November elections in order to “pressure Congress” into making spending cuts. Pressure Congress, not make unemployment worse for Obama. Yeah. “I’m urging every defense industry that could be affected by sequestration to put your employees on notice before …

As the GOP continues to scream about unemployment, today’s mildly positive jobs report shows that the economy has gained back almost all of the jobs lost since Obama took office. It’s possible we’ll see a small net gain by election day. The president only needs job growth of just over 105,000 jobs created in each of the next three months …

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Three months ago the leading topic was “debt.” (Source)

Wingnut GOP Rep. Steve King says if you don’t work, you shouldn’t eat. Unemployment benefits and food stamps only encourage laziness. So starve, you good for nothing slackers!

Beginning October 1st, many Michigan residents who have been on welfare for more than 48 months will face homelessness and starvation. Because GOP Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a bill to that effect. Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed into law a stricter, four-year lifetime limit on cash welfare benefits, prompting advocates for the poor to warn that tens of …

“The people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities. I say “generally” because there are exceptions. But in general, as I survey the ranks of those who are unemployed, I see people who have overbearing and unpleasant personalities and/or who do not know how to do a day’s …

Harry Reid wasted no time in jumping on this one.

Just now in the Senate: Sen. Jim Bunning has again blocked the Senate from extending unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless. The Kentucky Republican objected Tuesday to a request by Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a fellow Republican, to pass a 30-day extension of jobless benefits and other expired measures. The measure would also extend highway programs and …

When the man with the world’s largest wang can’t even get a job, the terrorists have won.

As Japan’s economy tanks with the rest of the world, Tokyo’s famed “capsule hotels,” originally created for businessmen who’d missed their evening train, have turned into extended-stay apartments for the unemployed. Makes you reconsider NYC’s 55 square feet apartment, doesn’t it?

…on recruits with tattoos on their saluting arm. A ban that only lived for one week. Military chiefs have scrapped a ban on tattoos decorating the saluting arm of recruits joining the US air force, following a backlash among heavily inked young Americans signing up for duty. The air force recruiting service instituted a policy on 25 November prohibiting tattoos …

Of course they’ll say they just “accidentally” left the decimal off the real number, 14.9M.