By Rick Manning America has been breathlessly awaiting the calamity that was predicted to befall the Washington D.C. area due to the “draconian” budget cuts known as the sequester. Now, the April data is in from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics detailing how the D.C. area is doing as it copes with the much bemoaned big government spending reduction hit. [...]

By Robert Romano Since Dec. 1949 through 2012, the noninstitutional civilian population as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown an average 1.35 percent every year, while the civilian labor force has grown even faster at 1.47 percent. This reflects rising labor participation — the percent of the population either working or looking for work — from a [...]

By Rick Manning The headlines read that the nation’s unemployment rate for April hit 7.5 percent.  But the real story behind the headline is that America is becoming a society of labor drop outs.  These charts using just released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics have been compiled to help you look behind the headlines at our nation’s unemployment [...]

A Las Vegas company has laid off 22 employees in the aftermath of Obama’s victory Tuesday night. The reason for the layoffs? The tax burden and regulations from Obamacare: “I’ve done my share of educating my employees. I never tell them which way to vote. I believe in the free system we have, I believe in the right to choose [...]

Today’s unemployment report met the political threshold set by Obama of being below 8 percent. To reach this threshold, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics found that an astounding 873,000 people found full-time jobs last month.  This finding contradicts virtually every other economic indicator including those used by the Federal Reserve to take the immediate and unprecedented step to [...]

By Rick Manning — Is it any wonder that decent people refuse to run for elective office? It is common for Americans to bemoan their choices at the ballot box with the refrain that they are voting for the lesser of two evils. This sense that those on the ballot fall far short of our expectations is a direct result [...]

By Bill Wilson — 86,000 fewer Americans have a job today than when Obama took office in January 2009.  That is the indisputable fact that this Administration cannot deny in any media spin.  In August alone, another 580,000 people left the workforce entirely.  That’s more than half a million people giving up hope of finding the American dream in Obama’s [...]

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The unemployment report is up to 8.3 percent. Bill Wilson, president of Americans for Limited Government responded: The economic bad news of Obama’s failed economic plan keeps cascading down on the American people.  Today’s unemployment rate of 8.3 percent is shocking in that it is not higher.  With the nation’s economy staggering as it only grows by .125 percent each [...]

By Adam Bitely — In a 245-172 vote in the House on July 26, the House passed H.R. 4078, the Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act. This legislation, if passed by the Senate and signed by the President, would stop the federal government from imposing many harmful regulations that cripple job creation until the unemployment rate dips [...]