'unemployment' Tag

  • Laboring over the weekend

    September 5, 2011

    The irony was not lost on the timing of its release just before Labor Day weekend of Friday’s unemployment report showing the U.S. unemployment rate unchanged at 9 percent.  Relative to historical standards, this is catastrophic. Here in France, unemployment improved slightly in Q2 but still hovers between 9.5 and 10%.  Relatively speaking, the figure […]