Jobless claims May 27, 2010, Labor Department report 8:30
The Jobless Claims Reports for the week will be released by the US Department of Labor today, May 27, 2010 at 8:30. Will the report show a drop this week instead of another increase like last week’s 25, 000? What is the real unemployment rate? It is certainly higher than 9.9%. Hundreds of thousands of high school and college graduates are entering the job market. What impact will that have? Here is a possible reflection of the new figures.
From Real Clear Markets.
“The number of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits likely fell last week.
Economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters expect new applications for unemployment benefits will show a drop of 16,000 to a seasonally adjusted total of 455,000. The Labor Department will issue the report at 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
New claims had risen unexpectedly by 25,000 the previous week, the biggest increase in three months and the first rise in five weeks. It pushed the claims level to 471,000.
The surge was seen as further evidence of how volatile the job market remains, even as the economy grows.”
Read more:
Citizen WElls 
NY Post article, telling of Census Bureau padding employment numbers.
You know the old saying: “Everyone loves a charade.” Well, it seems that the Census Bureau may be playing games.
Last week, one of the millions of workers hired by Census 2010 to parade around the country counting Americans blew the whistle on some statistical tricks.
The worker, Naomi Cohn, told The Post that she was hired and fired a number of times by Census. Each time she was hired back, it seems, Census was able to report the creation of a new job to the Labor Department.
Below, I have a couple more readers who worked for Census 2010 and have tales to tell.
But first, this much we know.
Each month Census gives Labor a figure on the number of workers it has hired. That figure goes into the closely followed monthly employment report Labor provides. For the past two months the hiring by Census has made up a good portion of the new jobs.
Labor doesn’t check the Census hiring figure or whether the jobs are actually new or recycled. It considers a new job to have been created if someone is hired to work at least one hour a month.
One hour! A month! So, if a worker is terminated after only one hour and another is hired in her place, then a second new job can apparently be reported to Labor . (I’ve been unable to get Census to explain this to me.)
Here’s a note from a Census worker — this one from Manhattan:
“John: I am on my fourth rehire with the 2010 Census.
“I have been hired, trained for a week, given a few hours of work, then laid off. So my unemployed self now counts for four new jobs.
“I have been paid more to train all four times than I have been paid to actually produce results. These are my tax dollars and your tax dollars at work.
“A few months ago I was trained for three days and offered five hours of work counting the homeless. Now, I am knocking (on) doors trying to find the people that have not returned their Census forms. I worked the 2000 Census. It was a far more organized venture.
“Have to run and meet my crew leader, even though with this rain I did not work today. So I can put in a pay sheet for the hour or hour and a half this meeting will take. Sincerely, C.M.”
And here’s another:
“John: I worked for (Census) and I was paid $18.75 (an hour) just like Ms. Naomi Cohn from your article.
“I worked for about six weeks or so and I picked the hours I wanted to work. I was checking the work of others. While I was classifying addresses, another junior supervisor was checking my work.
“In short, we had a “checkers checking checkers” quality control. I was eventually let go and was told all the work was finished when, in fact, other people were being trained for the same assignment(s).
“I was re-hired about eight months later and was informed that I would have to go through one week of additional training.
“On the third day of training, I got sick and visited my doctor. I called my supervisor and asked how I can make up the class. She informed me that I was ‘terminated.’ She elaborated that she had to terminate three other people for being five minutes late to class.
“I did get two days’ pay and I am sure the ‘late people’ got paid also. I think you would concur that this is an expensive way to attempt to control sickness plus lateness. I am totally convinced that the Census work could be very easily done by the US Postal Service.
“When I was trying to look for an address or had a question about a building, I would ask the postman on the beat. They knew the history of the route and can expand in detail who moved in or out etc. I have found it interesting that if someone works one hour, they are included in the labor statistics as a new job being full.
“I am not surprised that you can’t get any answers from Census staff; I found there were very few people who knew the big picture. M.G.”
When I received my Census form in the mail, I filled it out. Nobody had to knock on my door.
I answered truthfully about the number of people living in my household. But I could have just as easily dou bled the number. Why not? Didn’t Census ad vertisements imply that my community would get more federal money if the popula tion were larger?
I’m glad people are finding work with the Census. For some it’s the only work they have had this year and the chump change they are making for a few hours’ work is a godsend.
But wasting taxpayers’ money on busywork isn’t going to do much for the economy. john.crudele@nypost.com
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/two_more_census_workers_blow_the_OqY80N3DBTvL17VmxKKR0O#ixzz0p86vVHBU
CW,isn’t it funny that NOW the Dems are concerned about to much spending.The house Dems are scared that if they spend anymore on unemployment that the people will not vote for them in Nov. Well they got that one right.
The obama distorted truth movement
News Flash
Two news stories have just broke which may be related. The 1st from Christopher Story of worldreports.org stating a German paper is saying that the CIA is counterfeiting US currency and then shift blame to North Korea. The 2nd from Benjamin Fulford of benjaminfulford.typepad.com stating Ben Beranke says Federal Reserve is out of money!
Since this is open thread I’ll post this again, thanks, by the way check out Citizens Mobilization Well Report
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Good Morning!
The unemployment numbers are not accurate as everyone is truly aware. Federal employment is the simplest to manipulate (multiple counting). Counting the private sector growth employment reporting numbers are the most accurate. In addition, the government counts monthly new unemployment application number – but will not count the monthly exhausted unemployment benefit recipients remaining jobless.
The latter number would and can be easily accounted for. On the weekly unemployment filing, the State can still allow access even if the unemployed person has exhausted their benefits and allow them to check the box if still unemployed but not receiving benefits. This number can and should be used when calculated the monthly rate. It would take less than one work day to update their system to include one more check box.
NEWS FLASH
UPDATE. 25th May: There are reports that the motorcades of both Vice President Joseph Biden and the former President William Jefferson Rockefeller-Clinton have recently been involved in accidents. Clinton’s van was hit on 24th May while he was en route to Yale to deliver a speech in which he decried the ‘birthers’ attacking Obama. Biden’s motorcade was involved in yet another accident a couple of weeks ago. We should have twigged, when reporting the earlier incidents of Biden’s road transportation being involved in accidents, that these episodes represent warnings of much worse to follow: viz. signals to the Veep (and Clinton) to cease and desist their sabotage.
It is also believed that a similar message was conveyed to President Barack Obama, although our intelligence on Biden is firmer. Close observers of ours have confirmed that, appearing in public, Biden appeared to be ‘visibly disturbed’. As well he might be.
from http://worldreports.org
The U.S. Census job creation is a problem as well as their alleged quality control mechanisms. For example – I was either counted multiple times or the Quality Control system is absolutely redundant and therefore rendered useless and wasteful, one of the two is true.
I filled out my mailed U.S. Census form and sent it in. 9 weeks later, I received a knock on the door and asked to yield my information and they claimed not to have my form on file, I again gave only the same information as the first time. One week later, another can to the door, a supervisor of sorts, and repeated the process for a third time, this was last week. Yesterday, I received a call from a Quality Control manager from the U.S. Census and we went through the dang thing again, 4th time.
If this was a private company with such quality control specs in place, they would bankrupt, quickly.
third News Flash may be in moderation , thanks
(Video) Gov. Jindal ready to go to jail / Feds threatening military arrest of officials in New Orleans over oil spill cleanup?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvOFuuadMIo&feature=player_embedded
(Video) Senate Candidate, Dr. Rand Paul, talks to RT on Tea Party power, Fed threat & Obamacare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQbUTHlNs8A&feature=player_embedded
GREAT NEWS from Mr. Larry Sinclair!
I believed Mr. Larry Sinclair from Day 1. The Truth is that bo OUTED himself in 1981 when he wrote this FILTHY “poem” about him having SAOMASOCHISTIC SEX with FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS:
From The New Yorker Magazine
Pop
by
Barack Obama
Sitting in his seat, a seat broad and broken
In, sprinkled with ashes,
Pop switches channels, takes another
Shot of Seagrams, neat, and asks
What to do with me, a green young man
Who fails to consider the
Flim and flam of the world, since
Things have been easy for me;
I stare hard at his face, a stare
That deflects off his brow;
I’m sure he’s unaware of his
Dark, watery eyes, that
Glance in different directions,
And his slow, unwelcome twitches,
Fail to pass.
I listen, nod,
Listen, open, till I cling to his pale,
Beige T-shirt, yelling,
Yelling in his ears, that hang
With heavy lobes, but he’s still telling
His joke, so I ask why
He’s so unhappy, to which he replies…
But I don’t care anymore, cause
He took too damn long, and from
Under my seat, I pull out the
Mirror I’ve been saving; I’m laughing,
Laughing loud, the blood rushing from his face
To mine, as he grows small,
A spot in my brain, something
That may be squeezed out, like a
Watermelon seed between
Two fingers.
Pop takes another shot, neat,
Points out the same amber
Stain on his shorts that I’ve got on mine, and
Makes me smell his smell, coming
From me; he switches channels, recites an old poem
He wrote before his mother died,
Stands, shouts, and asks
For a hug, as I shink, my
Arms barely reaching around
His thick, oily neck, and his broad back; ‘cause
I see my face, framed within
Pop’s black-framed glasses
And know he’s laughing too.
THE END of bo’s SICK POEM
Read more:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/07/02/070702on_onlineonly_obama#ixzz0p6McDhp4
SEIU Now Owns the Cops Too?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80hI_hlzlE&feature=player_embedded
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LM // May 27, 2010 at 8:57 am
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LM
Great video, thank you. Have you noticed that the views is stuck on 301? Figures. I opened it in another browser to be sure, and it’s still on 301.
I’m getting sick to death of google censorship.
You decide
Will Drivers Boycott BP?
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/05/27/drivers-boycott-bp/
In bo’s “poem” POP he writes:
I “SHINK,” my
Arms barely reaching around
His thick, oily neck, and his broad back”
In bo’s “poem” POP he writes:
I “SHINK,” my
Arms barely reaching around
His thick, oily neck, and his broad back”
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Did he mean to say“STINK,”. That would make sense given the context of his poem and his “STINKing,” life wherein he was RAPED by a PEDOPHILE and then FORCED to SMELL Frank Marshall Davis’ feces mixed sperm on his underwear.
Leo,
Check here- it appears “shink” is urban slank…
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shink
Prairie // May 27, 2010 at 10:38 am
Leo,
Check here- it appears “shink” is urban slank…
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shink
Thanks, Prairie!