Posts Tagged 'Labor Department'

Ignoring Vocational Schools Ignores a More Prosperous Future

Ignoring Vocational Schools Ignores a More Prosperous Future
I came across a fascinating article in The Wall Street Journal recently that reported that due to Germany’s aggressive promotion of vocational schools and skills training, the German unemployment rate for young people is below 8 percent.

Contrast that to a new report that one in four Americans aged 24 to 54 aren’t working. That’s an unemployment rate of 25 percent. For our teenagers it is even much higher.

That’s a tragedy. But at the root of the problem is nothing ...

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A Bill More Unpopular Than Obamacare Is

A Bill More Unpopular Than Obamacare Is

You don’t have to go too far to find someone vehemently opposed to Obamacare. What is new these days is that former enthusiastic supporters are now among its biggest critics. From business and union leaders to Republicans and Democrats, to conservatives and liberals, they all finally have something in common: they want Obamacare trashed.

The last time a president introduced a bill this contentious was in 1969, when President Nixon had the distinction of introducing the $2.5 billion Family Assistance Plan ...

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Made in America Panel Proposes Time to Stop Fear Mongering on Sequestration

Made in America Panel Proposes Time to Stop Fear Mongering on Sequestration

Neal Asbury opened his nationally syndicated “Neal Asbury’s Made in America” show on Radio America (now on 44 stations)
by once again casting doubt that the Labor Department is releasing accurate unemployment numbers. In April, the Labor Department announced that 165,000 jobs were created, but ADP, an independent company, pegged the job creation total at 119,000.

“It’s disingenuous at best to continue to paint a rosy employment picture when we all know that as a result of ...

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