This issue of contraception has been in the news recently and has become a battle ground between the GOP and the Democrats. The debarred from the Democratic left is that all employers should be required to provide contraception as an option on their employees health care coverage while the Republicans on the (far) right argue that if an employer religious… Read more →
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For the fifth straight month unemployment rate goes down
Hiring up, unemployment down. Both trends continue for the fifth straight month after economists expected the opposite result. The unemployment rate is now at 8.3%, the lowest it’s been since February 2009, as the private sector has added 243,000 jobs in the month of January. This continues improvement from December which saw 203,000 jobs added. Economists surveyed by CNNMoney had… Read more →
Mitt Romney releases two years of tax returns but is that really enough?
After hesitation to release his tax returns, Mitt Romney finally obliged and put out both this years and last years returns. At first Romney stated he would not release any returns until April if he were to become the republican nominee but after pressure was placed on him by the other GOP candidates who released their returns it became a… Read more →
December 2011 Jobs Report: Unemployment rate goes down with hiring going up in December
The unemployment rate has now reached 8.5%, its lowest since February 2009. Hiring in December, as should be expected, went up as employers hired 200,000 employees. While the private sector added 212,000 jobs the public sector cut 12,000 as government has been trying to lower payroll. 1.6 million total jobs were added in 2011 which is a significant increase from… Read more →