International PressTV speaks with Dr. Emily Skarbek on How U.S. Government Creates Unemployment
Monday January 10th, 2011 • Posted by Allison Gibbs at 11:05am PDT • 3 Comments
Dr. Emily Skarbek, director of the Government Cost Calculator at the Independent Institute, was interviewed by International PressTV on Friday, January 7th. Listen to Emily as she discusses how poor U.S. government policies create or exacerbate unemployment.
The article and video can be viewed here.
3 Responses to “International PressTV speaks with Dr. Emily Skarbek on How U.S. Government Creates Unemployment”
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I read the last unemployment report, and to be honest, it sounds more than a little fishy to me. Unemployment has been holding steady for quite a while, ranging between 9.5% and 9.9% for the past year. In November, the unemployment rate was 9.8%. If it actually DID fall 0.4% in a single month, that would be an amazing rate of job growth... all things considered.
But this is fishy, because something doesn’t add up. We know that we need to create 125,000 new jobs a month just to keep the unemployment rate where it is, in order to compensate for an expanding job market as new people begin looking for work. So, if the unemployment rate FELL 0.4%, that means we must have added, what... 500,000 jobs in December! Wow, this is impressive... half a million new jobs in December???
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An impressivе share! I’ve just forwarded this onto a colleague who was conducting a little homework on this. And he actually bought me lunch because I discovered it for him... lol. So allow me to reword this.... Thank YOU for the meal!! But yeah, thanx for spending time to talk about this subject here on your website.
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