Highest Since April
http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=unemployment+9.8

My suggestions are;

Raise taxes on small business, bail out some big businesses and print more money.

my advice is dont worry..9.8% out of jobs still means that 90.2% HAVE jobs..look on the bright side.and if you're in the 9.8%,quit being picky,and you can get work.

As soon as the welfare is cut, I believe many will get any job they can even if it displaces an illegal.

It can't be that bad. I am living in Japan and a recruiter has been emailing me trying to get me to take a job in upstate NY. I said it would cost them 60k medical and a relocation package. She said her boss wants to call me. XD

Hey now, what about the 5 jobs the stimulus created?

have you been looking for work with a child recently?

sometimes being a parent calls for a little pickiness,,,

Is this the "Welfare Winter"....since the "Summer Recovery" did'nt happen??

its going to be rough,there are now 5 candidates for every ONE job opening,, that leaves 80 percent who will not be finding work unless they start their own business or go into some type of independent contracting,,,

10% of 350 million is 35 million out of work...so 35 million people are being picky? wake up, and go look for a job, then you might have some kind of a clue as to what is really happening in the world.

Where do you get those statistics?

http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/20101110JOLTS/

"It is important to note that the job-seekers ratio does not measure the number of applicants for each job. There may be throngs of applicants for every job posting, since job seekers apply for multiple jobs. Instead, the 5-to-1 ratio means that for every five unemployed workers, there is only one job available"

Your statement was wrong. There is 1 Job opening for every 5 unemployed people. That has nothing to do with job candidates. I knew your statement didnt make sense.

If H can't pull the promised jobs outa' his bum, I can see TV shows like;

Trick My Shopping Cart

Survivor; Tent City

Apprentice; The one who collects the most spare change wins a KFC 10 piece box.

I am totally gonna get that KFC 10 piece

not too wrong

'Job Openings and Labor Turnover – September 2010

There were 2.9 million job openings on the last business day of
September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today'

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm

'The number of unemployed persons was 15.1 million in November. The unemployment
rate edged up to 9.8 percent; it was 9.6 percent in each of the prior 3 months.
(See table A-1.)'

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm



semantics aside, the math says, that for 12.2 out of 15.1 million unemployed (80 percent), the jobs arent there

Absolutely. My kids are grown, but I could see your point. Picky has to be when you have to find daycare and half your job salary has to pay for it. An so many scams are targeting mothers with children(working from home for easy money?) If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

yes, childcare, and routine(which is important for children),and gas

leaves out jobs that gross three bucks an hour after childcare and gas

and leaves out jobs that will have me seperated from my kid at all types of random hours


I never understood why its fine for employers to decide what candidate fits the position, but its not ok for employees to decide what position fits their life,,,

News flash....... trickle down economics didnt work. tax incentives didnt work. Its time to try something differant. Hey lets tax the rich?

Yea its still just as wrong. Your statistics are not taking into account job requirements. An unemployed banker can't apply for an engineering position. Years experience, education, job history, etc. This will determine the candidates. Not to mention currently employed people can apply for those jobs too.

If we simplify it to 100 unemployed people and 20 Jobs so thats 1/5. Now say 70% are bankers 30% are engineers. 15 jobs are engineering jobs and 5 are banking jobs. That means for engineers they have 1/2 chance of getting a job and the bankers have a 1/14.

agreed, I wasnt referring to job rates PER occupation, I was only breaking down the numbers in terms of HOW many of the unemployed actually have a chance at a job

in other words, if EVERY job opening is filled, how many unemployed will STILL be unemployed