unemployment the worst in 16 years

[manu1959]

at 7.2%...........

well in 1993 there were 257,746,103 people and the rate was 6.5%

in 2009 there are 305,000,000 people at 7.2 %

trippy ..............

[April15]

More people to socialize with while trying to get a job!

[LiberalNation]

my dads gona be firing and laying off all this week, their company is only going to make a 1% profit this year and toyota which owns them is on his tail to get it done. The other big bosses don't want too but he says it will be their jobs if they don't do something.

[Classact]

We have hope and change to look forward to! I hope congress doesn't change their mind and pass Cap-in-trade like Obama wants to because it will cost the average family $4200.00 a year more for energy. Oh, not to mention it will put millions out of work in carbon jobs like coal mining and steel workers and every food item in America will double in price and all remaining manufacturing jobs will move to China, Mexico and Canada where they don't have dumbass cap-in-trade high energy prices to deal with.

[Hobbit]

The sky isn't falling. The world isn't ending. This isn't the worst economy since the Depression (although too much government interference could fix that). We will survive. We will endure.

BTW, this is coming from a broke college student who's getting laid off next week, but was smart enough to save for emergencies.

[Nukeman]

Keep in mind folks, 3% of the people out there DON'T want to work anyway and are chronically unemployed, They always look for the EASY money.....

[April15]

The sky isn't falling. The world isn't ending. This isn't the worst economy since the Depression (although too much government interference could fix that). We will survive. We will endure.

BTW, this is coming from a broke college student who's getting laid off next week, but was smart enough to save for emergencies.I just don't have the energy at 60 to start over. I have not had a call for an estimate in about 8 months. My last concrete job was in jan of 2008. The only thing I have had to live on is the sale of my equipment.

[manu1959]

I just don't have the energy at 60 to start over. I have not had a call for an estimate in about 8 months. My last concrete job was in jan of 2008. The only thing I have had to live on is the sale of my equipment.

webcor concrete in san mateo is hiring.....

[LiberalNation]

my moms goin down to a 34 hour workweek which is cool. She'll get to be home more to cook us goodies and clean stuff. (she still washes my clothes every week)

[avatar4321]

I just don't have the energy at 60 to start over. I have not had a call for an estimate in about 8 months. My last concrete job was in jan of 2008. The only thing I have had to live on is the sale of my equipment.

Then find some other ways to make money. Write or something.

[Mr. P]

I just don't have the energy at 60 to start over. I have not had a call for an estimate in about 8 months. My last concrete job was in jan of 2008. The only thing I have had to live on is the sale of my equipment.

Yer not alone, I talk with both blue collar and white collar folks everyday that have some link with construction that are now facing bankruptcy.

I deal with most every private sector of labor weekly and the devastation is moving from bottom to top in all...THE ECONOMY SUCKS right now and I don't see it getting any better soon.