from HARPER'S WEEKLY: >U.S. unemployment rose to 9.8 percent, underemployment rose to 17 percent, and >the average American workweek shrank by six minutes. The Bureau of Labor >Statistics, raising its earlier estimates, reported that eight million jobs >had vanished in the recession so far, the largest mass layoff since the end of >World War II. “This is what a recovery looks like,” said former Federal >Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. ... President Obama called the new jobs >figures “sobering.”<
in the ellipsis: >Ninety-nine of the hundred largest metropolitan areas had lost jobs in the past year. The exception was the area around McAllen, Texas, a border town where per-capita income is $12,000 and the incidence of heavy drinking is 60 percent higher than the national average.< -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
