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UFW to Unemployed Citizens: Take Our Jobs! « Liveshots [#]
Unemployed Americans can find work on farms. That's the message the United Farmworkers of America.
Liveshots (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:42:39 GMT) |
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Bill Lichtenstein: U.S. Jobs: Good News Is No News To Fox and ... [#]
The growing number of private sector jobs and the cutback of the federal workforce is exactly what the GOP/Tea Party has been demanding. But you would never know it from their response.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:34:12 GMT) |
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President Obama Reacts to August Jobs Numbers, Doesn't Mention Net ... [#]
Flanked by members of his economic team – including outgoing Council of Economic Advisers Dr. Christina Romer, whose replacement has yet to be named – President Obama chose to look at the silver lining in the economic clouds of today's ...
Political Punch (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:06:06 GMT) |
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Dow Rallies 128 Points on Jobs Report - DailyFinance [#]
A better-than-expected reading on the job market propelled stocks to their fourth straight day of gains, putting a bullish stamp on the first few days of September trading after the worst month of August for US equities in nearly a ...
DailyFinance (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:25:00 GMT) |
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The Jobs Numbers | RedState [#]
The jobs numbers don't paint a good picture over all. Unemployment went back up slightly. The number Mr. Obama will want us to pay attention to is private.
RedState (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:29:45 GMT) |
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What President Obama Can Learn From Steve Jobs [#]
Steve Jobs figured out that even people savvy enough to buy Apple products were going to have problems now and then, and he wasn't going to subject them to someone you'd find working at the Division of Motor Vehicles. ...
Silicon Alley Insider (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:45:00 GMT) |
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Hot Air » Unemployment rises to 9.6%, 54000 jobs lost [#]
Bottom line, the economy still has not started to create jobs, and we are continuing to fall further and further behind. The baseline population growth requires a positive job-growth level of 100000 or more just to break even, ...
Hot Air » Top Picks (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:43:46 GMT) |
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Steve Jobs Isn't On Ping... But These Apple Execs Are [#]
Jobs was on the service, but then jumped ship. What gives?
Silicon Alley Insider (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:35:00 GMT) |
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August Jobs Report: Private Sector Added 67000 Jobs - DailyFinance [#]
The US economy lost only 54000 jobs in August -- less than had been expected -- while the private sector added a greater than predicted 67000 jobs. Meanwhile, job loss totals for June and July were revised substantially downward.
DailyFinance (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:29:00 GMT) |
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Matthew Yglesias » New Jobs Program Coming? [#]
If you spend $400 billion on an unpopular but effective jobs programs, you'll reap political benefits in the medium-term. If you spend $400 billion on a popular-sounding jobs program that doesn't work, you'll reap the whirlwind in the ...
Matthew Yglesias (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:57:49 GMT) |
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Obama Jobs Deficit Forcing Obama to Scramble | The Foundry ... [#]
The August jobs report shows the Obama jobs deficit at 7.5 million workers. The Obama jobs deficit is the difference between the current level of employment and the level he promised his stimulus policies would achieve at the end of ...
The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:00:50 GMT) |
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The jobs numbers and new, uh, absolutely not stimulus | Michael ... [#]
Michael Tomasky: The White House's latest play: too late substantively, maybe just barely not too late politically.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:05:46 GMT) |
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Calculated Risk: August Employment Report: 60K Jobs ex-Census, 9.6 ... [#]
Percent Job Losses During Recessions The second graph shows the job losses from the start of the employment recession, in percentage terms (as opposed to the number of jobs lost). The dotted line is ex-Census hiring. ...
Calculated Risk (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:30:00 GMT) |
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Jobs Report: Moving Sideways | FDL News Desk [#]
The Labor Department released its initial employment report for August, and it showed a topline job loss of 54000. When you take out the 114000 jobs lost by the Census, you get a modest uptick in private payrolls of 67000 jobs.
Firedoglake (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:05:53 GMT) |
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Steve Jobs: Facebook had "onerous terms" for Ping [#]
Steve Jobs was surprisingly candid with All Things Digital's Kara Swisher yesterday -- he reportedly told her that both Facebook and Apple had spoken about integrating more closely with the new iTunes social network Ping, but Facebook ...
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:30:00 GMT) |
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Jobs' Game | Editorial [#]
When it launched the App Store a few years ago, introducing a marketplace for new software for its iPhone and iPod Touch...
GamesIndustry.biz - News (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:00:00 GMT) |
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Jobs: Employment Stinks Less In August - CBS MoneyWatch.com [#]
The August jobs report is out and it was better than expected. The US lost 54000 non-farm payroll jobs, though the losses were due to 114000 laid of.
The Financial Decoder Blog RSS | MoneyWatch (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:49:52 GMT) |
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Steve Jobs: "Onerous Terms" Prevented Ping-Facebook Integration ... [#]
Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs about its new social music service, called Ping. Essentially, it is a vertical version--in this case for music--of Facebook.
BoomTown (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:05:03 GMT) |
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Obama in Jobs Speech Pushes Small Business Measures - Stocks To ... [#]
President Obama spoke from the White House this morning for about four minutes following better-than-expected jobless data this morning.With Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner at his side, Obama stumped for his proposed small business ...
BARRONS.com: Stocks To Watch Today (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:46:51 GMT) |
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August Jobs Report WAY Better Than Expected, As Private Sector ... [#]
Analysts looking for a headline loss of 120000 jobs.
Business Insider (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:30:00 GMT) |
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Obama: Jobs Report 'Positive' But 'Not Good Enough' - Washington ... [#]
President Barack Obama, in somber remarks on the August employment report, said he will be unveiling “a broader package of ideas” next week on how to wake up a moribund labor market, even as he expressed no regret for labeling this the ...
WSJ.com: Washington Wire (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:54:49 GMT) |
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Economists React: Jobs Report 'Stronger-Than-Expected, Yes, Strong ... [#]
Economists and others weigh in on the drop in total nonfarm payrolls and rise in the unemployment rate.
WSJ.com: Real Time Economics (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:15:04 GMT) |
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Here's Today's Most Important Jobs Chart Republicans Will Try To ... [#]
You're either going to hear a lot, or nothing, about this.
Clusterstock (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:34:48 GMT) |
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Reason Foundation - Out of Control Policy Blog > The Lethargic ... [#]
At the end of the day, the job situation is this: There are now 14.9 million Americans without a job... 23.8 million if you count the involuntary part-timers. Meanwhile the labor force participation rate has steadily declined from ...
Reason Foundation - Out of Control Policy Blog (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:39:00 GMT) |
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10 Key Details About Today's "Strong" Jobs Report [#]
Many measures are stalled out, and some industries are shedding jobs. But one of the most worrisome aspects of the recession, the number of employees unemployed for an exceptionally long time, is showing signs of improvement. ...
Business Insider (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:15:00 GMT) |
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Another Bleak Jobs Report as Unemployment Edges Up to 9.6 Percent ... [#]
The unemployment rate edged up to 9.6 percent in August as the economy shed 54000 jobs. The decline was entirely attributable to the loss of 114000 temporary Census jobs. Excluding these jobs, the economy created 60000 jobs. ...
AlterNet Blogs Master Site Feed Posts (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:40:20 GMT) |
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Steve Jobs Defends iTunes 10 Icon After Getting Critical Email ... [#]
Wired reports that one user, Joshua Kopac, dislikes the icon so much, that he decided to email Steve Jobs with his opinion on the change. Steve, Enjoyed the presentation today. But…this new iTunes logo really sucks. ...
Cult of Mac (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:40:16 GMT) |
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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Jobs Decrease by 54000 ... [#]
Hidden beneath the surface the BLS Black Box - Birth Death Model added 115000 jobs, a number likely to be revised lower in coming years. Please note you cannot directly subtract the number from the total because of the way the BLS ...
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:08:00 GMT) |
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Jobs suggests that competitors' device activation tallies may be ... [#]
Not satisfied to simply trump Google's daily device activation numbers, Steve Jobs added insult to injury at the Apple press conference this afternoo.
Engadget Mobile (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:23:00 GMT) |
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Here's One Devastating Detail From Today's Jobs Report [#]
Sadly we're exporting mfg jobs offshore and replacing these jobs with often lower paying service jobs. What's worse is OBozocare will add layers of bureaucracies and inefficiencies not to mention higher cost to be passed to the middle ...
Business Insider (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:37:00 GMT) |
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Decent jobs report - LA Biz Observed [#]
Bad news is that the U.S. lost 54000 payroll jobs in August and the unemployment rate edged up to 9.6 percent from 9.5 percent the previous month. The good news is that private employers added 67000 jobs to their rolls (phasing out of ...
LA Biz Observed (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:31:16 GMT) |
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Steve Jobs, Apple will be honored at the Vision Awards in Beverly ... [#]
This morning we discovered in a local Beverly Hills Newspaper (The Courier) that Apple and Steve Jobs will be honored at the Visions Awards in Beverly Hills on September 23rd. For the 40th anniversary of this awards ceremony, ...
9 to 5 Mac (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:10:48 GMT) |
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Unemployment Up, But Jobs Report Beats Expectations - Hotline On Call [#]
The private sector continued to gain jobs, adding 67K to their payrolls. Those gains were largely fueled by boosts in the construction and service industries. But auto manufacturers shed more than 20K jobs last month, the report showed. ...
Hotline On Call (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:49:56 GMT) |
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Phineas Baxandall: In The Public Interest: More Jobs for the Same ... [#]
With almost one in ten Americans currently unemployed, local governments have a special obligation to create jobs.
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:20:45 GMT) |
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August jobs report: Signs of life for employment – This Just In ... [#]
Businesses hiring is picking up, but not enough to make up for the massive losses of temporary government jobs. The economy lost a total of 54000 jobs in August, the Labor Department reported Friday, matching the revised estimate of ...
This Just In (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:21:43 GMT) |
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Wonk Room » As The Employment Slog Continues, Successful Jobs ... [#]
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released another report showing that job-creation continues to slog along at a less-than-encouraging pace. The economy lost 54000 jobs in August (though 67000 private sector jobs were created) and ...
Wonk Room (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:58:08 GMT) |
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Smaller-than-feared 54000 Aug. nonfarm jobs lost Economic Report ... [#]
The US economy sheds 54000 nonfarm jobs in August, fewer than forecast, as the health-care and temporary-staffing industries show expansion and thus soften the blow from the layoff of temporary Census workers.
MarketWatch Community - Comments - JanPaul (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:47:50 GMT) |
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Here's How The Government Fabricates A Good Jobs Number [#]
When the US government announced a 'better than expected' headline growth number in its non farm payrolls report for August, a loss of 'only' 54000 jobs versus a forecasted loss of 120000 jobs, people had to wonder, 'How do they do it? ...
Clusterstock (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:36:40 GMT) |
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Woz and Jobs, phone phreakers - Boing Boing [#]
Adafruit Industries has posted a pair of terrific videos in which Apple's "Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs talk about their short career building illegal telephone equipment, aka 'blue boxes.' Interesting how their two stories differ...the ...
Boing Boing (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:13:55 GMT) |
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Google To Steve Jobs: No, We Aren't Lying About Android ... [#]
It's worth pointing out that Steve Jobs lies fairly constantly and about all sorts of things. For example, every time he has ever said Apple would not be getting into a product segment he has lied, including: smart phones, tablets, ...
Silicon Alley Insider (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:26:00 GMT) |
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Steve Jobs' 10 Favorite Records (And What They Say About Him ... [#]
Who'd have thunk it? Just look at Zuckerburg, who, like most 26 year olds, probably grew up downloading singles illegally, and compare him to the aura of mystery and brilliance that surrounds Steve Jobs, an album-oriented CEO.
Death and Taxes (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:16:24 GMT) |
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Steve Jobs Is Stunned (And Scared?) By Android's Growth [#]
Jobs just can't believe Google is activating more phones every day than Apple.
Silicon Alley Insider (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:06:00 GMT) |
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The White House on the Jobs Report « The Washington Independent [#]
Christina Romer, leaving her position as the head of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers this week, gave a flash response to the jobs report released this morning, which showed a slight rise in the unemployment rate. ...
The Washington Independent (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:43:20 GMT) |
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Why Guys Like Steve Jobs and Conan O?brien are Good for You ... [#]
When Steve Jobs spoke at a commencement exercise at Stanford University in 2005, not only did he inspire those present on that day – his speech, made immortal.
Karmsundbk.com (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:13:04 GMT) |
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Obama: New Jobs Numbers 'Positive' But 'Not Nearly Good Enough' [#]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama welcomed news Friday of better-than-expected private sector job growth. But with the unemployment rate ticking upward nevertheless, he said he'd roll out new plans next week to spur the economy.
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:15:00 GMT) |
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A Jekyll-and-Hyde Jobs Report | Mother Jones [#]
The jobs news is bright in spots, gloomy in others—and confirms a sluggish recovery.
MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:10:13 GMT) |
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A Story About Woz and Jobs, Actual Partners in Crime [#]
When Steve Jobs singled out Steve Wozniak as his "partner in crime" at yesterday's event, he wasn't just speaking figuratively. Here's Woz recounting the time he, Jobs, and the infamous Captain Crunch got picked up by the police for ...
Gizmodo (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:20:00 GMT) |
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Google: “Hey Jobs, We Aren't Counting Upgrades in Our Activation ... [#]
I don't care how big of an Android fan you are: whenever Steve Jobs takes the stage, everyone deep in the tech universe tunes in to see what he'll have to say.
Android Phone Fans (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:12:20 GMT) |
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On The Eve Of The Big Jobs Report, Gallup Says Underemployment ... [#]
Expect a weak number tomorrow, says the polling firm.
Money Game (Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:23:27 GMT) |
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Sudden Excitement in Jobs & Staffing Companies (PAYX, ADP, MWW ... [#]
After a long period of unemployment and joblessness, which still has not ended, any upside to the jobs numbers at any point offers a helping hand and support to the stocks of companies that revolve around the jobs market.
24/7 Wall St. (Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:53:00 GMT) |
