Monday, March 18, 2013
By Franco Ordonez
McClatchy Newspapers
...Opponents (click here) are planning to block his nomination by painting him as a poster boy for big government who pushes an intrusive agenda, and they already have a bill of particulars prepared: that he blocked laws in Texas and South Carolina that require photo IDs at the polls and that a recent critical report by the Justice Department inspector general found that his division suffered from “deep ideological polarization.”
“This is an unfortunate and needlessly divisive nomination,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., a senior member of the Senate Judiciary committee, which overseas the Justice Department. “The top priority of the secretary of labor should be to create jobs and higher wages for American workers. But Mr. Perez has aggressively sought ways to allow the hiring of more illegal workers.”...
adult men (6.9 percent),
adult women (7.0 percent),
teenagers (24.2 percent),
whites (6.7 percent),
blacks (13.3 percent),
Hispanics (9.2 percent) and
Asians was 5.0 percent
There are still problems for the 99% in that the NEW ENTRANTS are still not finding work.
There are still problems for the 99% in that the NEW ENTRANTS are still not finding work.
Table A-11. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment (click here)
PERCENT DISTRIBUTION
| |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs
| 57.5 | 57.0 | 56.2 | 54.8 | 53.5 | 52.2 | 53.4 | 53.9 | 53.6 |
On temporary layoff
| 10.5 | 11.4 | 11.1 | 8.8 | 9.0 | 8.8 | 9.3 | 8.9 | 9.4 |
Not on temporary layoff
| 47.0 | 45.6 | 45.1 | 45.9 | 44.6 | 43.4 | 44.1 | 45.0 | 44.2 |
Job leavers
| 8.2 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 8.7 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.4 |
Reentrants
| 24.7 | 26.5 | 25.9 | 25.5 | 27.7 | 29.2 | 28.3 | 27.6 | 26.9 |
New entrants
| 9.6 | 8.9 | 9.9 | 11.1 | 11.0 | 10.5 | 10.4 | 10.6 | 11.1 |
