Poll Detail
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In light of recent job losses nationwide, are you concerned about the stability of your own job?
Yes
47%
No
53%
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| Adirondackal | |
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07-08-08 3:45 PM
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The question was phrased with the typical "cradle to grave security" perspective of the left and the typical Couricism of a contemporary journalist. Jobs are not supposed to provide "stability" for the incumbent; they are to provide labor to mix with capital and PRODUCE something. Sadly, especially in NYS jobs are mostly government make work bureaucracies, in which, the incumbents NEVER have to concern themselves with the realities of a market economy.
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| SNOWGRINCH | |
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07-07-08 10:57 AM
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney****) -- Employers made their deepest cut in staffing in almost five years in February, the Labor Department reported Friday. There was a net loss of 63,000 jobs, which is the biggest decline since March 2003 and weaker than the revised 22,000 jobs lost in January. Economists had forecast a gain of 25,000 jobs. Job losses were widespread, reaching beyond the battered construction sector, which lost 39,000, and manufacturing, where job losses hit 52,000. Retailers cut 34,000 jobs. Temporary staffing firms cut nearly 28,000 from their payrolls, another warning sign of employers pulling back. Hotels cut about 4,000 jobs, a sign that discretionary consumer spending could be on the wane. ~ The unemployment rate fell because of an increase of 450,000 people whom the government no longer counts as being part of the labor force for a variety of factors, such as that they are not currently looking for work.
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| crotoban | |
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07-05-08 11:48 AM
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unemployment is low; libs just love to complain
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