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GetTheRightVote

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11. I have to agree with you..
Sat May 11, 2013, 02:08 PM
May 2013

this is a very misleading guideline. They are keeping us in the dark about how really bad the unemployment rates are, in fact this is a quote from Senator Bernie Sanders:

"The unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year old workers was 16.2 percent in April. That’s more than double the national rate of unemployment. For teenagers, the overall unemployment rate is 25.1 percent. For black teens the number is a distressing 43.1 percent. The United States has surpassed much of Europe in the percentage of young adults without jobs, according to The New York Times. What has Congress done? It cut $1 billion from youth jobs programs over the past decade. Bernie is working on legislation to change that."

So unemployment is still a great problem in the great US of A.

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Wrong... Half-Century Man May 2013 #1
Whatever makes the right wing crazies scream in apoplectic rage works for me. JoePhilly May 2013 #2
What on earth are you talking about? pinqy May 2013 #4
Okay. Half-Century Man May 2013 #6
except that is not what this is about zerosumgame0005 May 2013 #9
good news Liberal_in_LA May 2013 #12
just not as bad as it could have been zerosumgame0005 May 2013 #13
I have to agree with you.. GetTheRightVote May 2013 #11
Labor Force Participation rate is what hate radio Blandocyte May 2013 #3
I just filed my very first unemployment claim. krispos42 May 2013 #5
Dislike Jimbo S May 2013 #7
But But But zerosumgame0005 May 2013 #8
+1 DCBob May 2013 #10
legions of the long-term-unemployed are Thrilled! .nt quadrature May 2013 #14
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