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May
4
2012

Stagnant Job Growth – Five Cartoons

U.S. employers may have added 115,000 jobs in April, but that was the smallest number in six months, and much lower than economics expected. Even though the unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent, it was mostly due to more people leaving the workforce entirely (nearly 350,000 of them).

None of this is good news for the nation’s unemployed, looking to decide on which candidate has the best plan to steer them to a steady job and a paycheck. Here are five timely cartoons about the struggle our economy still has…

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Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com (click to view more cartoons by Cagle)

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Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Bagley)

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Jeff Parker / Florida Today (click to view more cartoons by Parker)

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R.J. Matson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch (click to view more cartoons by Matson)

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Eric Allie / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Allie)

Apr
17
2012

America’s Most Desirable Jobs

“I’d be happy to have any job on the list, if you want to know the truth.” “Ah, yes, you speak of the CareerCast.com ’2012 Jobs Rated Report,’ which classifies the most and least desirable jobs in the U.S.” “That’s right. The worst job of 200 on the list, No. 200, is lumberjack. I’d be happy to swing an ax [Read More]
Mar
15
2012

Saving California

Making Sense, by Michael Reagan In less than 50 years they ruined my home state. They over-taxed it, over-regulated it and bankrupted it. They strangled its vibrant economy, destroyed its education system and let its infrastructure crumble. Who are these people who’ve turned the Golden State into Greece? Not Big Business. Not the rich. Not the poor. Not millions of [Read More]