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May 23, 2012 - In an interview with Time's Mark Halperin, Mitt Romney says that the unemployment rate will be 6% or less after his first term as President. May 4, 2012 - At an event in Pittsburgh, PA, Mitt Romney says what unemployment rate would be "cause for celebration."
The governor invited lemonade stands onto the grounds of the Statehouse to launch Lemonade Day, a program to encourage young people to become entrepreneurs and a great place to talk about the job statistics that just came out.
Even after an extension of unemployment benefits to 99 weeks, many of those about to go off the program are in a quandary. Scott Pelley talks to some of them in Silicon Valley.
The first Friday of every month new US jobs numbers are released. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, America's unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent in April. Non-farm employers added 115000 jobs, but at the same time 342000 people left the labor force. Max Keiser, host of The Keiser...
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More than five million people were unemployed in Spain last year. The country's latest unemployment figures were to be released on Friday. The ratings agency Standard & Poor's announced on Thursday that it had downgraded the country's credit rating. With 38769 people having lost their jobs in Feb...
A new International Labour Organisation (ILO) report paints a miserable picture of the global jobs market, and blames government cutbacks for the big slow-down. Will the situation improve? Guests: Raymond Torres, Raoul Ruparel, Sony Kapoor.
While talks on the debt ceiling and deficit are underway in Washington DC, a new job report highlights that numbers are way worse than analysts expected. President Obama has plenty of excuses for the for the statistics, and Les Leopold, an economist and author of the book "The Looting of America,...
Across Britain there are nearly one million unemployed young people. For these youth, finding a job is not merely about income, but also a matter of character. Due to a law aimed to people perceived to be lazy, many of these young people will be forced to work for free. Lacking the money to go to...
This video introduces the economic definition of unemployment and shows how to calculate the unemployment rate as well as a few other related statistics. It also gives a few reasons why the typical measure of unemployment can understate the true rate of unemployment. For more information and a co...
Formerly known as a booming Baltic, Latvia's economic gains have masked a greater problem, concerning the very survival of the nation. EU accession has become something of a roller-coaster ride for Latvia. Hopes of a Baltic boom have instead given way to a brain drain - with the country's young a...
Short video looking at the youth unemployed in the UK. It shows that the current level of youth unemployment of 1.04 million is the highest since the mid 1980s. It then goes on to look at how increasing participation in education has impacted on the unemployment rate. It then focuses on youth une...
Analyzing unemployment data to show that "real" unemployment is worse than the headline numbers show.
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