Real Jobless Rate at 16.7%

Happy Labor Day!

Heckuva job, Barry!


The U.S. jobless rate rose to 9.6% in August, but the government’s broader measure of unemployment rose even more to 16.7%, the highest rate since April.

The comprehensive gauge of labor underutilization, known as the “U-6″ for its data classification by the Labor Department, accounts for people who have stopped looking for work or who can’t find full-time jobs.

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Biden Grudgingly Gives Bush Team Credit for Surge Success

If I had a dime for every time Biden blinks in this video I could pay off the National Debt.

In a NewsHour interview, Vice President Biden went further, albeit grudgingly, than President Obama did in his Tuesday night address in crediting the surge of troops into Iraq ordered by President George W. Bush in January 2007 with providing the political space to arrive at this moment in the country’s post-Saddam history.

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