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09 Apr 2006 10:38:30 PM |
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Nations Unemployment Rate Stands at 4.7% |
Currently, the Nations Unemployment Rate is 4.7%. Many economists
regard this level to be
pretty close to full employment. My question then is this: Not
counting the times when the Democrats inherited low unemployment levels
after winning an election, but, when was the last time a Democratically
controlled congress and Democratic President lead this Nation from
elevated Unemployment down to full employment?
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| User: "Goo Goo" |
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| Title: Re: Nations Unemployment Rate Stands at 4.7% |
09 Apr 2006 10:54:09 PM |
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If the U.S. has "full employment", then are wages going up? Didn't think so.
Something's not right.
<ebrainsh@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1144640310.932695.247700@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Currently, the Nations Unemployment Rate is 4.7%. Many economists
regard this level to be
pretty close to full employment. My question then is this: Not
counting the times when the Democrats inherited low unemployment levels
after winning an election, but, when was the last time a Democratically
controlled congress and Democratic President lead this Nation from
elevated Unemployment down to full employment?
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| User: "Stan de SD" |
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| Title: Re: Nations Unemployment Rate Stands at 4.7% |
10 Apr 2006 12:14:27 AM |
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"Goo Goo" <kshipira@unity.com> wrote in message
news:BFk_f.11284$nf7.1122@pd7tw1no...
If the U.S. has "full employment", then are wages going up? Didn't think
so.
Something's not right.
Illegal aliens.
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| User: "Starkiller©" |
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| Title: Re: Nations Unemployment Rate Stands at 4.7% |
09 Apr 2006 11:05:51 PM |
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 03:54:09 GMT, "Goo Goo" <kshipira@unity.com>
wrote:
If the U.S. has "full employment", then are wages going up? Didn't think so.
Something's not right.
Wages are up here. Matter of fact it looks like Tennessee is about to
vote in another minimum wage hike to put it over $6 and hour here.
Typically when the minimum wage is raised wages across the board go up
as well.
Bill to raise minimum wage advances in Senate
A bill to raise the minimum wage in Tennessee by a dollar to $6.15 an
hour advanced today in the state Senate. Advertisement
The Senate Commerce, Labor and Agriculture Committee voted 5-to-2 to
move the measure along to the Senate Finance Ways and Means Committee.
It must be approved there before it can reach a floor vote.
It's still pending in the House where it appears to have good support.
The bill is sponsored by Senator Doug Jackson of Dickson, who called
raising the minimum wage "a moral issue."
He said this would help about 40,000 state residents who earn the
federal minimum wage of $5.15 an hour. That rate has not been raised
since 1997. http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=33251
There are around a dozen or so other states with higher than the
federal minimum wage but the majority of states only pay what is
federally mandated and no more. BTW. Also I believe Ohio and either
Kansas or Nebraska, not certain which, pay less than the Federal
minimum.
<ebrainsh@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1144640310.932695.247700@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Currently, the Nations Unemployment Rate is 4.7%. Many economists
regard this level to be
pretty close to full employment. My question then is this: Not
counting the times when the Democrats inherited low unemployment levels
after winning an election, but, when was the last time a Democratically
controlled congress and Democratic President lead this Nation from
elevated Unemployment down to full employment?
Regards
Starkiller©
......."We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
Hillary Clinton-2004
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