{"id":4147,"date":"2010-06-04T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2010-06-04T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:20:33","slug":"may-joblessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/04\/may-joblessness\/","title":{"rendered":"may joblessness…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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May unemployment is 9.7%, down from 9.9% in April. While it’s disappointing that it hasn’t really fallen yet, the new jobs added continue to rise [431,000], the overall unemployment figure containing people re-entering the job market.<\/p>\n

I think I’m finally getting far enough away from the  Bush years to not feel so reflexively defensive of the Democratic Administration [though I still wrankle when the progressive bloggers rant the Obama hasn’t done enough]. I still think he’s doing as well as possible. Passing the stimulus package, a health care bill, the financial reform bill, and continuing the de-escalation in Iraq while shepherding an economic reform that is continuing is about all one could ask in such a time. Add to that swimming upstream against a media storm, racism, and an obstructionist Republican Party and it becomes a Herculean performance. He’s doing his job.<\/p>\n

But for political reasons, I would like to see unemployment falling faster. Where I live, things remain grim. There are marquees announcing Tea Party workshops. Their fliers are out in the meat and three diner where I eat lunch. While this part of Georgia was Republican even during the "Solid South" years, it still gives me an uneasy feeling. Unemployment is a real problem in the South: Mississippi 11.5%, Alabama 11.0%, Georgia 10.4%, South Carolina 11.6%. While there’s no likelihood of many Democratic votes from here, it would sure be nice to see these numbers coming up [and the number of Tea Party rallies going down]…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May unemployment is 9.7%, down from 9.9% in April. While it’s disappointing that it hasn’t really fallen yet, the new jobs added continue to rise [431,000], the overall unemployment figure containing people re-entering the job market. I think I’m finally getting far enough away from the  Bush years to not feel so reflexively defensive of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}