FINAL JOBS REPORT STATISTICS

Latest unemployment statistics before the election, provided by the Bureau of Labor:

 Unemployment rate for blacks increased to 14.3 percent.

 Long term unemployed (27 weeks or more) was little changed at 5.0 million (40.6 percent of the unemployed.

 

Civilian labor force grew by 578,000 to 1555.6 million.

Labor for participation rate edged up to 63.8 percent.

Total employment rose by 410,000.

FULL ARTICLE: FINAL JOBS REPORT 

Move Over Obama and Romney, Jeremy Epstein Is In The House

As the Presidential Debates Continue, heated discussion concerning our economy, the middle class, and unemployment, reached some new and not-so-subtle arguing points between the two candidates. During Tuesday's debate, Governor Romney was on the defensive. According to CBS and Newsday, the public felt that Romney began to "Interrupt" President Obama when discussing certain heated topics. The president was reciprocating and standing his ground, but in a way that seemed more subtle than Governor Romney. An interesting point in the night that resonated with younger voters, occurred when Adelphi University Junior, Jeremy Epstein, raised the question of How the candidates could reassure him that he, among other college students, would be able to find a job after graduation. This spiked an unexpected trend in the 'Twitterverse' and other social media websites. Jeremy, an undecided, first-time voter was the youngest person asking questions at the debate. He says in a Newsday article, "I'm representing a whole other group of people my age, people who are facing the exact same problems, who are worried if they're going to be able to move out of their parent's house and support themselves sufficiently." Apparently, Jeremy managed to strike the right chord among young voters and social media users. He got his deserving fifteen minutes.

Link to full article: Jeremy Epstein